We can detect gravitational waves in the fabric of spacetime, but we are powerless to devise a method to monetize tax revenue from held stock wealth?
Nothing wrong with that IMO. Most people are “partisan” to some extent, and will tend to excuse the faults of their preferred candidates and positions, while condemning those of the opposition.
What kind of data are you looking for? Streaming figures? Or what?
It has been obvious to most of us that you visit different parts of the web than most of us. I am uninterested in right wing ‘influencers’ or influencers in general and I weep at the failure of my generation not to teach your generation better.
We used to do it. Look at tax tables before 1970.
That was different. I get what Derec is raising issue with. The problem is people like Bezos and Musk have billions in unrealized wealth. So you can't tax it like income or share sales because they haven't been sold. This is also part of the problem because these sorts of assets can be used to leverage loans for access to cash. So they get to hold onto the asset and pay a trifle in interest, utilizing their wealth without actually needing to sell and gain access to it which would have made it taxable.
And stock buy backs used to be illegal stock market manipulation.
“The Problem” is that “FAIR” is defined by billionaires. If they have to pay 50-90% of their income above a certain level, it’s unfair by their calculus to let poor people skate at a fraction of that rate. If they have to pay a 5% wealth tax on everything they own, so should poor people.
No amount of money in a bank account can give them control over the reality of angry peasants dragging them out of their bunkers and stuffing them into meat grinders, though.
I think it kinda has. We used to be warn d that religion was the opiate of the masses. Well screens are now the religion/opiate of the masses, peddling outrage, falsehoods, partial truths.
Why? Has someone(s) gone too far?
Yeah. How's that work again?
And that generation needs to get out and vote.
Egad! That is a bit much. According to the Pew Study though:
It isn't just the Democrats.Pew Article said:
It’s Anti-Semitic.
I question whether the poll is wording it right though. Looking at the poll, it only asks if a person has a favorable opinion of *insert country*. That can carry variable interpretations, most of them benign. Would an unfavorable view of Russia mean people hated Russians?
In this context and with current events in mind, I would consider Israel/Israel policy one and the same if asked in such a poll. Unless there are people who are against Israel the landmass in which case I'm sure the question would be phrased as Israel's right to exist.
I wish I were as certain as you are.
Two completely different things, you will have to admit. Note that Toni wants to "monetize" so much tax value from held stock that e.g. Jeff Bezos' net worth drops below one billion dollars. How do you imagine that being possible without confiscating said stock or forcing him to sell?
On the level Toni wants to do it it certainly is. On the level of Bernian wealth tax proposals, it most likely is impossible too, which means that his wealth tax would lead to forced sales as well.
Not misrepresenting anything.
If he wasn't offered as a deliberate whataboutism to detract from a discussion of Hasan Piker's influence on the elections, you might have a point.
It's not like I watch influencers' streams either, be they on the right or the left.
Sure. But that is not in conflict with the idea of being informed about people in the news.
Yes, it's his real name. He is a Turkish Muslim, and the nephew of Cenk Uygur. He got his start on The Young Turks, so I guess you could call him a nepo baby.