How Big is your Big government?

by **saxitoxin** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:44 pm

Redland - Businesses are owned by the government. The state provides "cradle to grave" social services. Income - before social services are received or taxes deducted - is divided as follows:

Blueland - Businesses are owned by individuals. The state provides very limited social services. Income - before social services are received or taxes deducted - is divided as follows:

Brownland- Businesses are owned by their employees. The state provides very limited social services. Income - before social services are received or taxes deducted - is divided as follows:

by **BigBallinStalin** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:46 pm

$50,000 per-capita Income in Redland??? I DON'T THINK SO, SAX!

by **saxitoxin** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:50 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:$50,000 per-capita Income in Redland??? I DON'T THINK SO, SAX!

this is where you live -

by **khazalid** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:16 pm

3 options seems a little prescriptive.

NONE OF THE ABOVE

ah, the system works

by **mrswdk** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:21 pm

about 6 inches

by **Lootifer** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:31 pm

I chose bownland cause poop is funny

by **warmonger1981** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:02 pm

I believe in a system where I work. Get all my earnings confiscated. Then the money I earn get distributed to creditors first. Then to people who need it. I make sure I produce more than I consume. I'm a model citizen for what system?

by **BigBallinStalin** on Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:38 pm

I went for Blueland because I know I'm awesome enough to earn >$500,000.

The 1% in the $10k bracket actually make >$10k per year because of shadow economies.

Everyone, come to Blueland. It's cleaner than Brownland, a.k.a. the Land of the Turds.

by **Night Strike** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:04 am

warmonger1981 wrote:I believe in a system where I work. Get all my earnings confiscated. Then the money I earn get distributed to creditors first. Then to people who need it. I make sure I produce more than I consume. I'm a model citizen for what system?

The gullible.

by **AndyDufresne** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:16 am

I'm already living here:

--Andy

by **thegreekdog** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:50 am

BigBallinStalin wrote:I went for Blueland because I know I'm awesome enough to earn >$500,000.

The 1% in the $10k bracket actually make >$10k per year because of shadow economies.

Everyone, come to Blueland. It's cleaner than Brownland, a.k.a. the Land of the Turds.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Stupid Commies.

I voted "star" because it's prettier than the weird thing that Redland has and the Brown Fist is menacing.

by **Qwert** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 10:51 am

i dont know how % of people in other countries work in goverment and public services,, but recently ( after change of half Ministry in Goverment), Ministry of Economy start search for this data,and came to conclusion that 10 % of population work in Admninistration and public services.. and this its one of reasons why in mine country coruption and uneployment are high,because this 10% are almost 50% of employe who dont create money, just eat money,and dont do nothing.

Someone will say that with this huge number of people who work in public services and goverment, will increase eficiency, but its totaly opposite, and destroying our country economicaly .

by **AndyDufresne** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:20 pm

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--Andy

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:25 pm

lol, truth dollars. It didn't help that the "nations of the free world" were lending to Communist governments at the time.

by **AndyDufresne** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:32 pm

BBS, don't make me throw truth dollars at you.

--Andy

by **thegreekdog** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:35 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:lol, truth dollars. It didn't help that the "nations of the free world" were lending to Communist governments at the time.

Why would a communist country accept money from a free market country?

by **AndyDufresne** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:21 pm

--Andy

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:48 pm

thegreekdog wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:lol, truth dollars. It didn't help that the "nations of the free world" were lending to Communist governments at the time.

Why would a communist country accept money from a free market country?

Why not? It's similar to the reasons why any organization would want to incur debt--as opposed to engaging in huge reforms (changing product lines/economic policies), increasing prices of goods sold/increasing taxes, invest in more profitable endeavors/keep State-owned enterprises afloat, and so on.

It's not like ideology had a strong hold when governments had to make such tradeoffs. Even Stalin bent the transnationalist Communist ideals when he reintroduced nationalist symbols and propaganda to support Russia's war efforts.

by **thegreekdog** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:52 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:It's not like ideology had a strong hold when governments had to make such tradeoffs. Even Stalin bent the transnationalist Communist ideals when he reintroduced nationalist symbols and propaganda to support Russia's war efforts.

What? That's absurd!

by **BigBallinStalin** on Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:59 pm

thegreekdog wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:It's not like ideology had a strong hold when governments had to make such tradeoffs. Even Stalin bent the transnationalist Communist ideals when he reintroduced nationalist symbols and propaganda to support Russia's war efforts.

What? That's absurd!

Well, there are good Communists, and then there are Bad Communists, but fear not, TGD! The Bad ones will be exterminated, which is why internal police forces are necessary to keep us safe.

by **mrswdk** on Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:24 am

The Chinese government likes to call its own particular brand of state capitalism 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'. Even the North Korean government turns a blind eye to a bit of black market trading across the Chinese border or to the occasional farmers market.

by **Baron Von PWN** on Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:53 am

thegreekdog wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:It's not like ideology had a strong hold when governments had to make such tradeoffs. Even Stalin bent the transnationalist Communist ideals when he reintroduced nationalist symbols and propaganda to support Russia's war efforts.

What? That's absurd!

BBS speaks truth. Look up "Socialism in one country" Stalin basically took a internationalist ideology, and altered it so 1. The soviet union could have semi normal relations with the rest of the world and 2. so they could explain why the revolution only happened in Russia.

by **Phatscotty** on Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:17 am

thegreekdog wrote:
BigBallinStalin wrote:lol, truth dollars. It didn't help that the "nations of the free world" were lending to Communist governments at the time.

Why would a communist country accept money from a free market country?

Why would a Communist country reject money from a free market country, or any country for that matter? Especially if the Communist country knows the free market country is a bunch of soft power wussies who don't make you keep your word. Or what if a Communist gets elected to lead a free market country?

AH HA!

by **Lootifer** on Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:09 am

I believe this is what you are referring to?

(seriously i was expecting to have to look a bit harder than literally typing in obama stalin into google... this world is fucked).

by **Dukasaur** on Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:11 am

Lootifer wrote:I believe this is what you are referring to?

(seriously i was expecting to have to look a bit harder than literally typing in obama stalin into google... this world is fucked).

There's some funny ones and some stupid ones, but I just didn't know WHAT to think of this one: