it’s funny how we begin with Democrats are weak-kneed and need a more muscular, economics focused message and then all the rest is about how bad wokeness was at universities and we have to be sure not to go back to that. there’s a powerful message for the working class! fucking narcissists.
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in the MAGA army, there is no mercy for the man who fails to win the news cycle.
does anyone else think it’s irresponsible how they dox all the actors in the credits?
i agree that people who wouldn’t bother to vote wouldn’t, for the most part, participate in a general strike, but i think a lot of people who didn’t bother to vote in November ‘24 would bother to vote now if they only had the chance.
ice is not nice.
( i’ve written about this a bit, www.interfluidity.com/v2/9028.html )
today you are a carbon sasquatch.
Text: Because we can't bring ourselves to call a dollar of increased purchasing power "income," it escapes income taxes, payroll taxes, and even taxes on capital gains - which can be deferred without limit. Changing this would require a system that taxes some fraction of accrued unrealized gains annually, raising the basis accordingly - with a very large exemption so it doesn't apply to ordinary investors. One might tax stock buybacks at the corporate level as a "deemed dividend." Alternatively, an "imputed return" might be applied to asset holdings above some very large threshold. One wouldn't pay any imputed tax if the securities lose value in a given year, and would receive credit against capital gains taxes on whatever amounts were previously paid on the imputed returns. Approaches like these would have two objectives - the most important being to eliminate the striking bias that taxes a dollar of wage and salary income at far higher combined rates than the same dollar obtained as investment income (particularly at extremely high wealth tiers), and it would address one of the largest forms of tax escape - the ability of multi-billionaires to defer taxes forever, financing their consumption simply by borrowing against their asset holdings. For now, none of this is anywhere on the political menu.
despite the bitter cold these are people who have no cool to lose.
methinks prisons will suffice.
ha! not their choice!
we've developed a tool that supersedes and renders obsolete the guillotine. it's called taxation. we've never quite had the courage to deploy it as indicated.
the good die young.
the great thing about this approach is there’s no need for immigration police. the only people we ever deport are people who find themselves in the custody of the regular police anyway, for actually committing acts of violence.
Abolish ICE. If you want to enforce current immigration law, fine employers.
Impeach. Convict. Remove. Prosecute. Rinse. Repeat.
no good graph goes unpunished.
not after parties sort and negative polarization takes hold. then the threat the other guys might win largely obviates substantive negotiation.
“after all of those whom i resent have been crushed, i swear to you the world will be peaceful and good.”