• gaiussabinus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So you spend taxes for product at market rate and then depress the price using your money? The government doesn’t make anything so it would need to acquire the materials with some kind of cost that will always come from the tax base 100% of the time.

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      3 months ago

      I agree the money is going to come from the monetary supply and government acting as buyer and distributor of goods would be incredibly problematic. A subsidy of some kind for domestic production + placing a max profit markup IMO would be a more effective method.

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        3 months ago

        What your suggesting had been done, and it causes a price floor and the formation of a black market 100% of the time. This is not a solution.

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          Then perhaps reforming the commons? Agricultural land & surplus are owned in common by the people who live in the area. Government pays for the production of those food stuffs and only gets a nominal % tax on the surplus.

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            3 months ago

            The Soviets tried that and it is the root cause of some of the most serious famines ever seen. Not a good idea. Government, by its nature, is an inefficiency engine. You want the government in the picture as little as possible. This increases that and will cause more inequality not less.

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              3 months ago

              Who said Gov is an inefficiency engine? That sounds more like neo-liberal dogma then actual peer reviewed work.

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              The Soviets tried that and it is the root cause of some of the most serious famines ever seen.

              What are you talking about? There was one famine, and it happened near the beginning of the Soviet Union’s history, after a civil war. And this was a country where for centuries under tsarist rule famines had been a common occurrence. What the Soviet Union did was end famines.

              Government, by its nature, is an inefficiency engine.

              This sounds like neoliberal Road to Serfdom nonsense. Inefficient compared to what, the invisible hand?

              This increases that and will cause more inequality not less.

              Again, what are you talking about? Inequality in Russia has risen since the fall of the Soviet Union. Have you forgotten about shock therapy already?