Money and Debt is a (not so) simple zero sum game. Whenever a dollar is created, an equivalent debt/obligation is created. It always balances out to zero.

So who do you want to reduce their savings so that the US government can have less debt? Once you have decided on that, it is easy to discuss the actions the government should take to cause it to happen.

Only if every person owns the exact same amount of production capital. Otherwise it is incredibly unfair.

Not really. Taxes works best when they target production directly at the source as it is being produced.

Targeting the sale means that you are targeting the wealth production way too late in the chain. In any sufficiently advanced society you end up with large amounts of wasted production capacity.

I think that is exactly what he suggested. Median is a trimmed mean.

While h is not technically SI, it is officially sanctioned for use as a multiplier with SI. So saying that kWh is not SI is more of a half truth.

Only in the mind of people who understand neither the origin nor general use of money. Money has historically been used successfully for trade and taxing.

Meanwhile, all attempts at trying to turn money into a storage of value has has had dire consequences. The Euro simply being the latest in a bunch of total failures by people who are macro-economically illiterate.

Traffic death stats here in Sweden (from 2011) tells a far different story.

* 33% solo car
* 24% meeting cars
* 18% slow moving objects (animals/pedestrians/animals)
* 11% interesections/etc
* 9% other
* 3% cars moving in same direction under normal circumstances.