Why Africans Starve

Creators Syndicate or LewRockwell.com ^ | November 5, 2003 | Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

[Tax-chick]

BTTT - great article.

[WackyKat]

Sam Kinison had the right solution to starvation in Ethiopia," Hey people, you're living in a desert! Move!

[biblewonk]

"WE HAVE DESERTS TOO, WE JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM!!!!!"

[Tax-chick]

Ethiopia was a reasonably prosperous country for thousands of years. It takes modern government and expert economic planning to starve all those people.

[Paul C. Jesup]

A farmer who earns $68 a year after expenses from cash sales of a crop is taxed 10%. Once a farm’s annual income passes the $4,235 mark, additional income is taxed at 89%. Wanniski wonders if such a tax system wouldn’t cause Ethiopians to starve in the absence of war and drought.

A tax-rate coming to a Westerized country near you.

[donmeaker]

Israel and Los Angeles show how prosperity can be achieved in a desert. It takes incentives (and in LA the incentives were driven by real estate values) to manipulate water flow.

I live just south of Mojave, at the north edge of Los Angeles county, in the Mojave Desert.

[tertiary01]

Some of our most agriculturally productive areas were once deserts, such as much of California's Central Valley. We just are motivated to find ways to bring water to it to make it bloom. It's a bad situation when taxes are so high they stifle creativity.

[biblewonk]

Yes it's every bit as bad as not owning any interest in your farm and watching TV instead of harvesting your crops if the government's tractor gets a flat tire. Like in Russia.

[ScreenName1]

It's amazing what you find on websites that FreeRepublic does not allow postings from.

[Ajnin]

Imperial Valley in California is a desert, yet is produces enough vegetables to supply the entire world.

[biblewonk]

WhatEver I was just quoting the dead comedian.

[Tax-chick]

I guess. I've never posted an article. Paul Craig Roberts is a major columnist ... Townhall, Forbes, etc.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[ScreenName1]

You are right, he is a major columnist but I first found this article a site that FreeRepublic does not like. VDare (dot) com.

I don't know why but I suspect that the managment here thinks that particular website is racist. I have never found that to be true but maybe they know something I don't about them.

[Jim Robinson]

ScreenName1 aka subaverage, ~CertifiedPatriot~, Dogime, McNeills VA Partisan Rangers, Oak and Thistle, Confederate Soldier, et al, banned again.

[Poohbah]

What's the skinny on this guy? What axe does he grind?

[Jim Robinson]

Apparently, he likes pushing sites that the owner of FR (that would be me) does not wish to associate. Also, apparently, he thinks very little of an owner's right to control the content and use of his own private property. He also appears to care nothing about our first amendment rights to freely choose with whom we wish to associate (or disassociate). He also doesn't seem to mind trespassing on private property. Other than that, who knows what his major malfunction is? But I will assume it has something to do with his recent choice of screen names (the one he used just prior to "ScreenName1" above).

[Poohbah]

Gosh.

Opposed to private property rights and free association.

Must be a Democrat. (c8

[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, I know. You could almost mistake him for a Damned Yankee.