Certainly. Most of the 20th century, the top tier tax rate was set at a level that can only be described as “punitive”. It was higher than 90% to kill off the robber barons.
While I am not morally opposed to beheading rich people, we really need to go back to the tax rates we had in the 50’s. And add a securities tax, payable in shares of that security, that the IRS can liquidate slowly over time.
The Tea Party did not spoil a GOP election. The GOP caved and adopted their platform.
The Democratic Party will do the same thing with the Guillotine Party.
We have already seen a third party take over a major party. The current problem with the GOP is because it absorbed the Tea Party.
With the right symbol to rally behind, we can do the same thing to the Democratic party. We need to build the Guillotine Party.
Just like GOP refugees created the Tea Party, we need to rally around the greatest symbol of the French Revolution, and build a Guillotine Party.
Jesus, what a garbage site. Continuous stream of popups, random jump-scrolls. Utter shite.
It was the state’s burden to prove otherwise.
Try this on for size: Trump follows Texas’s lead, and declares them to be invaders. Enemy combatants aren’t subject to the laws of the nation they are invading.
Trump can argue that Border Patrol is performing a military role, rather than a law enforcement role.
I think I figured it out… Diplomats are not actually the only persons who can be within American borders without being subject to American law. Another category is “Enemy Combatant”.
Remember that Texas has declared immigrants to be invaders.
“See, it’s not genocide, because they aren’t actually people.”
The 14th amendment does not say it only applies to certain people or under certain circumstances.
It does have one circumstance:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
I’m trying to figure out how they will argue that immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.
Since you’re outsourcing this, the adjudicator is either the first contract killer involved, or the second contract killer you specifically hired to deal with that first contract killer.
Frugal families sold their tapes, sold their VCRs, and sought their fortunes on the high seas.
Exactly.
Our focus needs to be on class issues: Wealth disparity, healthcare, housing. We need big, systemic solutions, not bandaids.
Top tier income tax rate needs to return to the punitive levels it was at before Reagan: Ultra-high earners need to decide between spending a lot of money on tax deductible expenses (like labor), or giving the majority of that money to the IRS.
We need a wealth tax. Not on all wealth, just certain kinds of assets. Specifically, a tax on registered securities, such as stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments. Exempt the first $10 million held by natural persons, as we do need capital investment. However, that capital should be coming from (and owed back to) the working class. Pretty much every worker should be receiving shares of their company as part of their compensation.
Rent needs to die in a goddamn fire. Hardly anybody should be renting residential property. To that end, we need massive increases on property taxes that are exempted for owner-occupants. Raise the property taxes (and exemptions) and keep raising them, until the landlords figure out they can make more money as private lenders to their (former) tenants than as landlords to those same tenants. The few actual landlords remaining will be owners of duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes, who live in one of the units and rent out the remainder. Apartment complexes will be reconfigured as condominiums.
Universal Healthcare. True universal healthcare. Single payer. You show up at the doctor’s office, urgent care, ER, pharmacy, and you’ll never see a bill. We’ll pay for it with that securities tax. Employer-sponsored healthcare can remain a thing, but there should be no tax benefit or other public support for it.
We do need a minimum wage (around $15/hr today) but we need a “standard wage” that is substantially higher. (Around $22/hr today) A living wage. All businesses must pay at least a minimum wage. Large businesses (Or franchisees of large businesses) must start at that standard wage.
The one good thing that is coming from this is that this loss is motivating liberal voters to build a “Guillotine Party”, to do to Democratic leadership what the Tea Party did to the GOP.
My advice: Don’t setup dual boot.
Instead, setup Virtualbox in your Linux instance, and install Windows in a VM. You’ll have access to a windows “crutch”, without having to leave Linux to use it.
For what I’m paying in mortgage and one car loan, I couldn’t afford rent on an apartment in the nearest city. Whatever single family home I could afford to buy in the city, I wouldn’t want to live in.
Today, it takes a family with both parents, or partners, working just to have enough money to pay a mortgage and two auto loans (none if they live in a city and are smart).
If they live in the city, they aren’t paying a mortgage and two auto loans. The money they’d spend on all three in the outer suburbs is instead going to a landlord.
The French had no other means of achieving their objectives in 1789. They didn’t have a democracy. They didn’t have the ability to eliminate their “billionaires” by taking their billions. They could only get rid of their “billionaires” by taking their heads.
Unlike the French Revolutionaries, we have the framework of a functioning democracy already established. It’s currently broken and non-functional, but it exists.
We don’t need the guillotine, but we do need the mindset, the attitude, the commitment that the revolutionaries had when they decided to use the only tool they had available to them.
Tuesday, Biden is scheduled to meet patients in the Super-COVID ward at Walter Reed.
It’s 1/7th your age plus 2, right?