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That's one point of view; but I expect Zorq would argue time deposits don't count as wages. He'd probably say "If you don't want to pay tax on gains, nobody is forcing you to invest." about those too. If you count Napoleon, yep. But I'm not sure it's fair to blame the revolution for having a...

You've got a bit of a Bayes' Theorem problem there.

Well, there's always the trope about dumb-as-rocks Roman aristocrats leaving all intellectual tasks to their highly educated Greek slaves. Somehow that scenario seems more realistic than convincing HAL to think Dave is its son...

Death to Smoochy

FIFY. The Enlightenment was the Age of Reason. The Reign of Terror, thirty thousand murders, and a death sentence for the guy who wrote The Age of Reason followed the storming of the Bastille. (Which, incidentally, was no longer even being used for political prisoners. The mob set free five...

I.e., it's truthful to measure the starting point in different units from the ending point because doing so broadens the set of assets exposed to the asset tax and you like asset taxes. Looks like an "Appeal to consequences" fallacy. It was a hypothetical. But yes, some people are taxed on...

Certainly. I wasn't complaining about the rich paying for the government, just pointing out a fact -- a fact the study authors were undoubtedly aware of when they made the decision to claim the government is paid for by the average American. I was catching them in a lie, not editorializing...

:consternation2: Are you suggesting agreeing with Karl Marx is the criterion for being a non-right-winger?!?

Are you telling me these guys aren't the first academics to propagandize for their policy preferences by lying about who's paying how much tax?!? Next you'll be telling me water is wet. For someone who doesn't know and doesn't care, you are doing a lot of trumped-up imputation. No, they...

Yes, exactly. The government is paid for almost entirely by the rich. What the study shows, essentially, is that the 1% are paying quite a bit more than their fair share compared to what the .0001% pay. But the average American, quite rationally, doesn't really give a rat's ass how the rich...

How can you tell?

To explain by analogy why the idea lacks merit. If you bought a condo in 2006 for $100,000, and sold it in 2025 for $170,000, the government calls that a capital gain of $70,000, because the government measures your purchase price in 2006 dollars and measures your sales price in 2025 dollars...

With the proliferation of electric cars, paying for roads with the gas tax is stupid -- we need to check people's odometers and tax them based on the difference in the reading after a year. And speaking of stupid, another thing my country does that's really stupid is measure distances in miles...

Here's the actual paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34170/w34170.pdf?utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED "Table 2 presents our results on effective tax rates in 2018-20. For the top 400, the total effective...

I told you: the statute of limitations. Courts stopped trying to adjudicate complaints that fifty years ago X stole Y's land, for the very good reason that the witnesses were dead or senile. I've no doubt there are other provisions stopping the Modoc from getting their land back and dollars to...

Yes, that's what I said. If you had been pressing a lawsuit then your claim that the current state of the law is what matters would be correct. But as the topic at hand is the correctness of your claim about the purpose of property law, ancient history matters. Your claim is anachronistic...

Why do you think that? Is it because you think "terminate a tenancy" means "break a lease", and doesn't include leases simply ending when their time limits expire? If that's what you think, it seems you're not convinced by my above reasoning, which is fine, but here's somebody with actual...

Not as important for what purpose? Winning a lawsuit isn't what we're on about here. Which hat were you wearing when you made your accusation about the purpose of California property law. your social scientist hat or your political demagogue hat? For purposes of rage-manufacture, the current...