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About Me
- A. D. Ployd
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- I am a 2nd year PhD student in Historical Studies at Emory University. I am also a Certified Candidate for Deacon's Orders in the United Methodist Church. I live in the academy and talk about the Church... I am using this blog to try to find ways to talk TO and WITH the Church as well... I also fancy ellipses...
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I listened and I like. I agree with her. You can't pick to keep one part of the system without also keeping the other.
We can all keep wrangling over how much of the pie to share, but let's not forget about the importance of growing it.
By the way, this is a common sentiment among economists, if not also theologians. In college, Dickey once commented to me on the many ethical reasons there are for promoting economic growth: when people work, they have a greater sense of purpose, lower stress levels, more stable relationships at home, they're less likely to commit suicide, etc.
The importance of growing the pie is also seen in Hauser's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser's_Law), which states that, since WWII, tax revenues have been observed to be a constant 19.5% of GDP regardless of marginal tax rates. So if we want to have more resources to share with the vulnerable, we need to focus on growing GDP rather than raising marginal rax rates.
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