I don’t have the energy to look everything up right now. Too high MW leads to rising unemployment. America is huge and has economic powerhouses like California but also Puerto Rico and imma just call them republican states.

15$/h in Cali makes sense. In Mississippi it’s probably the upper upper end of what’s maybe possible. Legislating this federally either requires a formula to fit it to the local economy or it needs to be lower than what makes sense for California.

From what I vaguely remember 12$/h was OK but don’t quote me on that.

7.5$/h is too low, just 15$/h might be too high.

Well, we currently have death as a limiter. Proper inheritance taxes would cap everything to one lifetime.

Yea, you can’t see it anywhere because people know not to do that.

A few percent land tax is no comparison to 95% income tax. Also, people at the level of wealth we’re talking about don’t have a lot of income. They have capital gains.

Also, 15$ minimum wage would destroy economies of many places. In California it’s not a big problem. But in bumfuck nowhere with a median income of 25k it will destroy the local economy.

95% income is wild. But capital gains increase might not be a bad idea. Higher top brackets also probably a good idea. Taxing debt that you borrow against assets might be difficult because of mortgages. Technically I think the state gets taxes on that but only when they die. If there is a good proposal that works, I’d have no problem with it.

Just Wealth tax is not a good idea. The problem in my opinion is not that people get too rich, it’s that companies get too big. We need to break those monopolies up.

Well, not really. He can’t actually spend that money. When he bought twitter, he had to take a bunch of sketchy loans and some of his stocks dropped because he had to sell a lot.

If he actually sells a bunch of his stocks, the price will dip and make the rest worth far less. So it’s not actually spendable money.

It’s more of a power measurement. If you have a billion you have influence over that many assets.

Also a problem with wealth tax. If you have to sell assets to pay it, that could have a bunch of weird effects. I think Denmark doesn’t actually tax your assets, they just increase your income tax if your wealth is above a certain level. But I’m not 100% on that.

True, but I currently dislike Russia the most. Mostly because of proximity here in Germany.

To be fair, she seems to have been against it.

Still a Russian asset tho.

This is the earth plug

Flashback to December when Trump didn’t know the difference between ISIS and Nigeria.

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50% chance the mod who removed my comment is a Russian bot too :P

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I mean, that comparison was unwarranted and unwanted by the agency he worked for. Calling this “actual journalism” in the title is misleading. You can ask that question without equating Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine that way.

Funnily enough, the Jew are kind of the cause for a big schism in maga currently. On one side you have the conspiracy nuts who are actually antisemitic and on the other side you have the idiots who followed Israel into the Iran war.

Mine couldn’t for some time now. You can’t download them as files and transfer them. Amazon has become unusable for books at this point.

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