http://smarttaxes.org/2009/04/19/prosperity-without-growth/ developing tax policy for sustainability in Ireland Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://smarttaxes.org/2009/04/19/prosperity-without-growth/comment-page-1/#comment-81 James Greyson Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:41:54 +0000 http://smarttaxes.org/?p=960#comment-81 Prosperity without Growth is not a very good report. It represents a huge amount of work and a huge investment of public money with no noticeable attempt to rethink the basic issues. The report does not consider why politicians depend upon growth as an indicator of their success and how they cannot give this up even when everything falls down around their ears. It also ignores and rudely belittles the potential for a complete 'game change' from growth-causing-problems to growth-reversing-problems. The 'opinion pieces' commissioned by the SDC all follow anti-growth herd thinking, with no opinions sought to challenge this dusty dogma. The 'consultations' run by the SDC similarly were used only to reinforce previous thinking rather than to attempt any rethinking or creative effort. The SDC have wasted 9 years of opportunity for getting the government on-board any kind of breakthrough on the scale of what's needed. Prosperity without Growth is not a very good report. It represents a huge amount of work and a huge investment of public money with no noticeable attempt to rethink the basic issues. The report does not consider why politicians depend upon growth as an indicator of their success and how they cannot give this up even when everything falls down around their ears. It also ignores and rudely belittles the potential for a complete ‘game change’ from growth-causing-problems to growth-reversing-problems. The ‘opinion pieces’ commissioned by the SDC all follow anti-growth herd thinking, with no opinions sought to challenge this dusty dogma. The ‘consultations’ run by the SDC similarly were used only to reinforce previous thinking rather than to attempt any rethinking or creative effort. The SDC have wasted 9 years of opportunity for getting the government on-board any kind of breakthrough on the scale of what’s needed.

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