It is in the private sector that we need cuts – or more tax if they refuse to do it. The reason is straightforward: much (and I know, not all) of what the the private sector does is froth on the top of the cappuccino, nice but wholly unnecessary. It’s the state sector that provides what we need most: health, education, housing (oh yes – all of it is regulated), safe food (oh yes – again, we only have that because it is regulated), transport infrastructure, safety, protection and so much more. They are, if you like the coffee in life. The froth is the extra. And we can do without some froth – we can’t do without the coffee.
The private sector is merely the pocket money after the State has taken care of our real needs.
Your thoughts?
31 responses so far ↓
1 KMcC // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:26 pm
he’s a fascist?
2 KMcC // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I mean in the sense that Il Duce thought that the state was supreme and we should be eternally grateful for its wise direction of our otherwise empty and shallow lives
3 Paul // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Is it possible to comment on such a view without being banned for swearing ?
4 Mark Wadsworth // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Isn’t the private sector ‘cutting’ like mad? It’s called ‘a recession’, and I’m not sure who counts the recession as A Good Thing.
Apart from wealthy vultures like me who are waiting for property prices to crumble.
5 Steve // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:36 pm
It’s a sad comment on society that such people are allowed out without constant adult supervision.
Oh, wait… that might be the point.
6 Martin // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:47 pm
That must be one bitter cup of coffee.
Incidently, it’s the foam that pays for this coffee, like it or not.
7 Luis Enrique // Jul 7, 2009 at 1:57 pm
As soon as the state regulates something, it gets credit for providing it?
8 jameshigham // Jul 7, 2009 at 2:10 pm
or more tax if they refuse to do it
Says all you need to know about the mindset.
9 PC // Jul 7, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Hmm. Now where does this magical “State” get it’s resources from… ummm wasn’t it … err the glorious people’s revolutionary anticapitalist fountain of wealth or something?
Seriously though, this guy must be a troll. He simply has to be. Not even the most hardened socialist believes this anachronistic bunkum any more – they’ve long since discovered that hijacking the Ecology movement was the way to implement their control over people.
10 PC // Jul 7, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Also, did anyone get a few laughs out of the fact this guy has tagged his post ‘economics’?
11 anonymous // Jul 7, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Just when you think he has bottomed out, he plumbs new depths of inanity. Is he a care in the community patient ?
12 Kay Tie // Jul 7, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Pity all my food, drink, heating and culture is just “froth”.
13 Stephen // Jul 7, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Jesus wept. That’s right up there with abortion being the liberation of the foetus from its womb prison.
14 Ian Bennett // Jul 7, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I’m not sure is worse, his logic (“the sector of the economy which needs tax money to survive, creates wealth”) or his authoritarian attitude. If you really want to benefit the world, Richard, shoot yourself.
15 ifabloke // Jul 7, 2009 at 3:33 pm
None of you get it. Richard Murphy is the new creation of Ricky Gervais. It’s all a joke!
16 andrew // Jul 7, 2009 at 3:39 pm
No mention of banking regulation. A typcially convenient omission.
17 Dennis The Peasant // Jul 7, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Moron.
18 David Gillies // Jul 7, 2009 at 5:08 pm
All of the things Murphy lists could be (and should be) provided privately. Cops, soldiers and courts. That’s the extent of the State.
People like Richard Murphy should really be kicked in the balls over and over until things start coming off.
19 Kay Tie // Jul 7, 2009 at 7:21 pm
“People like Richard Murphy should really be kicked in the balls over and over until things start coming off.”
Now that’s a service of the state I’d pay taxes for.
20 Brian // Jul 7, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Noooo! Noooo! Noooo!
Aren’t you silly people all aware that everything is owned by the State? That any money you have in your pockets is there because you have been given it by the State? That this money may be withdrawn from you if the State no longer finds it convenient to supply it?
Don’t you remember all those ‘giveaway’ budgets?
21 dearieme // Jul 7, 2009 at 8:31 pm
The poor silly fellow.
22 Steve // Jul 7, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Genius. The Zimbabwe economic model. The final solution.
23 Chris // Jul 7, 2009 at 10:52 pm
There really is no limit to the depths of his imbecility, is there?
24 john b // Jul 7, 2009 at 11:24 pm
@22, while I’m agreed with the general consensus on the plan’s lunacy, the biggest problem in Zimbabwe is that the state and (because of the disfunctionality of the state) private enterprise both do bugger all. USSR would’ve been a better comparison…
25 peter // Jul 8, 2009 at 12:46 am
See , lefties really do worship “The Almighty Government”
26 Jonathan Pew // Jul 8, 2009 at 1:24 am
Oh please no more….no more….it’s too much…my sides are splitting…no Richard, stop it…please. Now go sit on the naughty step.
27 john miller // Jul 8, 2009 at 3:09 am
Phew, that was a close thing. I wandered over to the site, saw the photo and realised it was the ramblings of a young David Vine before he got bitten by the snooker bug.
28 Zorro // Jul 8, 2009 at 2:16 pm
I’m sorry?!
Jesus fucking wept, or he would have if he ever read Richard Murphy’s ramblings.
The sticky stuff that lives on Richard’s bell end understands economics better than he does. He really should learn when the fuck to shut up (The correct answer being about 2 years ago).
29 Johnathan Pearce // Jul 8, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Priceless.
30 Longrider » Arse. // Jul 9, 2009 at 8:08 am
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31 JS // Jul 10, 2009 at 8:26 am
Has he ever had a job?
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