Po, all taxes are abolished.


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The word 'po' was invented by Edward de Bono. It means the statement after it can be any damn thing you please. Don't matter it came out of your hind end.

http://en.wikipedia....teral_thinking)

http://www.edwdebono.com/po.htm

http://en.wikipedia..../Edward_de_Bono

Po, all taxes are abolished.

Imagine all taxes are abolished. There is no income tax, no property tax, no tax of any kind. What would the consequences be? This is an exercise in imagination. Let's assume that the Constitution has in it a statement that government can't collect taxes. And let us assume that the Constitution says government can't print money or in any way create money. Inflation is a tax, according to Ron Paul.

How the 773H would government live without taxes and without making money out of nothing? Voluntary donations, what else.

I imagine a deal would evolve that people could specify what department of government their money is donated to, because people would donate more money if they have control over where their donated money is going. For example if you were opposed to a current war, you would not donate money to the Department of Offence Defence, but you might donate money toward protecting the USA border.

If a war is necessary, government would explain why, in a way that even a chimpanzee can understand, to get voluntary donations for the war. Without voluntary donations, they could not fight the war.

The Rawesome Foods incident would cost the police department a huge amount of voluntary donations. They would be damn careful that doesn't happen again. They would apologize to people and outline the steps they are doing to see that it doesn't happen again. The police department would be terrified shitless of doing any police brutality that the news reporters would pick up on. And city hall would answer questions asked by reporters, or risk suspicion. They would be afraid of suspicion because that would cost them voluntary donations.

Government would shape up or shut down. Reporters would be on them like ugly on an ape. Government would be afraid of the people.

Government would most likely be small. People probably wouldn't voluntarily donate enough money to support a large government.

Government's feet would be held to the fire in a serious way. There would be no such thing as government is not accountable to the people.

Po, all taxes are abolished.

Can you run with this idea?

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Dream on.

Ba'al Chatzaf

You don't understand the word 'po'.

I don't Wnat is "po"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

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You don't understand the word 'po'.

I don't Wnat is "po"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

I explained that in the first paragraph in the first message in this thread and I provided 3 links. You are supposed to read. And if you are interested, you are supposed to click the links. If the few links that I provided are not enough, you can find some more. It ain't that hard.

Edward de Bono wrote some dozens of books about creativity and they were translated to some dozens of languages. He started as a doctor and he studied the brain, and from there he got interested in creativity and switched to a different career. The word 'po' is one of his inventions and its purpose is creativity.

Po, wheels should be square.

Po, airplanes should fly upside down.

Po, all cars should be yellow.

Homework assignment:

See what you can make out of the above po statements. To do this you might read a book by Edward de Bono and/or listen to a lecture by Edward de Bono. Google is your friend.

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See what you can make out of the above po statements. To do this you might read a book by Edward de Bono and/or listen to a lecture by Edward de Bono. Google is your friend.

Wheels should not be square. It is inefficient. Round is optimal.

Ba'al Chaqtzaf

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The word 'po' was invented by Edward de Bono. It means the statement after it can be any damn thing you please. Don't matter it came out of your hind end.

http://en.wikipedia....teral_thinking)

http://www.edwdebono.com/po.htm

So silly, stupid ideas really are stupid and silly.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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Wheels should not be square. It is inefficient. Round is optimal.

Ba'al Chaqtzaf

That is black hat thinking, which is a perfectly good hat. Edward de Bono invented the six hats: white, black, red, yellow, green, blue.

white hat: information

black hat: negative

red hat: feelings

yellow hat: positive

green hat: po

blue hat: which hat?

It has been said that the six hats method reduces time spent and increases productivity of business meetings. Perhaps the six hats is one of Edward de Bono's better ideas; it seems to actually get results, or so they say.

Putting on my yellow hat, the effectiveness of a wheel might depend on the terrain that it is travelling on. If you are stuck in the mud or in the sand, round might be not the best shape. Or if you are travelling in water with a boat, you might prefer a wheel with paddles. Also a waterwheel under a stream of water. Perhaps some day someone will invent a high tech wheel that can change its shape according to the terrain.

I'm not a mathematician but for a mathematician odd shaped wheels might be fascinating. Place a point somewhere on the wheel. What is its path as it turns?

From wiki:

A different type of square-wheeled vehicle was invented in 2006 by Jason Winckler of Global Composites, Inc. in the United States. This has square wheels, linked together and offset by 22.5°, rolling on a flat surface. The prototype appears ungainly, but the inventor proposes that the system may be useful in microscopic-sized machines (MEMS).[4]

Notice that a crazy idea sometimes can lead to ideas that are not crazy. That is what the word 'po' is about.

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Wheels should not be square. It is inefficient. Round is optimal.

Ba'al Chaqtzaf

That is black hat thinking, which is a perfectly good hat. Edward de Bono invented the six hats: white, black, red, yellow, green, blue.

No, that is Newtonian Mechanics at work.

Ba'al Chatzaf

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