I guess these professors can tell an eighteen year old anything. Hell, they don't know any better. What social good is derived from taxing! It hurt the average person, because it takes away their self-worth. I don't mind giving you the food stamps, and housing, but this must come attached with a question. How long are you going to need this assistance? We can't afford to give it to you for life. Real life example, California, you can't let citizens from other countries just walk into your state, and start using your services that your citizens has paid for, and expect that those service are going to still be available. Sooner or later, you just can't afford the madness. And this is what your silly professor, and other who think like him is going to find out...

The problem with the lecture is that assumptions are made. Where is the support that "Sales tax is a bad tax", "Progressive tax is a good tax". Without backup, this appears to be opinion.

This sounds to me like economic socialism. A sales tax is not a regressive tax (that is subliminal labeling by a socialist/Marxist) If Kathy makes more money than Flad then she will spend more too and therefore pay more tax. If they both spend everything they make then they both would pay exactly the same proportion of their income in taxes. If either one wants to get richer then they should spend less than they make, thereby saving money and saving on taxes. This, of course, would make no sense to a socialist. They would want the person who is rich (who has saved their money) to help out the poor person (who is poor because they spent everything they earned and now they want to spend what the rich person earned.) Flad wants to eat Duck and have Kathy pay for it. Does this sound like a bailout?

I remember this lecture lol. I like the fact that people can listen to it now and have the notes here online, without having to record it on their own. Just another example of technology in the classroom.

Wow! nice art and notes. great recording quality. The lecture was very engaging (facile marxism, yes, but still a blast too listen to ;). Some questions jump to mind: Why would Kathy bust her rump selling "stuff that makes grass green" while Flad gets to spend his time kicking ideas around with the students, if both paths produce the same result: They both eat Duck. Shouldn't Kathy quit and work for $1 as well, then find her own sugar-daddy to "share" Duck with? Does Kathy have to eat at that particular restaurant and "share", or does she have alternatives, eating at home, for instance? What happens to the price of Duck if everybody is eating it?