Over 29 years of fanhood

Second hand car market should get interesting.

Is that new cars only or even preowned?

Disgusting human being. She’s Donald with a different haircut.

Yep tyranny of the majority stuff. They knew exactly what they were doing. it’s actually disappointing how the genius of the construct and rationale have been perturbed and devalued. the leeches are a virus that want to use the government to suck the productive dry to support the unproductive and government is happy to control and selectively distribute. Meanwhile the elite are exempt from all of this as they support the ruling class. ironic that after all these centuries of fighting for democratic rule we’ve been manipulated back into a monarchy rule that’s just slightly better disguised.

That is the actual argument. Smart or even just moderately motivated people can easily vote. But those voters tend more often to pay taxes and not favor social welfare or at a minimum recognize there must be some form of two party rule. It’s not a racial artifact but a socioeconomic one. Those aren’t the votes this current cult is looking for. They want the votes of the apathetic, its oppressive to them they can’t bribe their voters to turn out with food, money, cigarettes, WATER, etc. The no excuse mail in ballet has been a godsend to extracting the apathetic voters. And if you don’t have an id, chances are you’re taking a lot more from society than you are giving which means you vote yes to the fake Robinhood party.

Eff it. Pretty soon I’m going to stop going to work. The handouts are getting super lucrative and why have a job and earn money only for them to steal it and give it to someone else.

Nonsense, for one case you may need to own property, not rent, and in the other case you need to be enrolled in a school. So that illusion of accepting other forms very clearly oppresses communities who are disproportionately renters, homeless, or not school enrolled.

Does this mean you’d eliminate the GS14 (125k/yr) job ‘program manager of urban dumpster beautification’ I saw a few years ago ?

If ID checks are racist, how are utility bills and student ID checks not racist?

I was complementing you that you worked very hard to get a spot that some rich kids parents just made a phone call and a donation to get them. no problem allowing the wealthy to enjoy their creation. But tax the wealth transfer to the entitled recipients. It would disrupt the wealth distribution curve and force more people to earn their own wealth.

It’s really disappointing Gase isn’t involved in how to use them.

As I always like me to say Diggs is who Sammy was supposed to be. Love how hard he works to be the best. he just did it in terms of personal gains, yet there he is grinding again.

sure, but the wealthy had no barriers and may have even gotten in on less merit than you had based on your own efforts. of course a large number were “ordinary”, remember the elite are less than one in every hundred. In college 1 in every 20, at Cornell maybe 1 in every 10. Not debating your story. Just feeling that generational wealth hand off seems like a very easy tax target. Nobody is less deserving to be wealthy than someone who just happened to have rich parents. Anything they do on their own, more power to them.

Simple- Placate black vote from baseball community? Check. Placate white vote from golf community? Check. all lies, all the time. No standards, no principles, just how can we fool them today..

Registered Democrats want everyone else to give more, pay more taxes, not themselves. I’ve challenged many and they all get squirmy when asked ‘what’s stopping YOU from doing more?’

great points and congrats on running a business. It’s a risk that takes courage. You’re the exact type of risk taker I do not think should be taxed at all. the general idea is ueber wealthy that pass on wealth to next generations seems like a much more equitable villain in the whole wealth distribution problem. these wealthy elites that get easy access to Ivy League degrees and prestigious jobs early in their career without earning anything are arguably detrimental to societal progress. Add to that the fact they are independently wealthy from day 1. The top 1% has 34 Trillion in net worth. And they are going to pass it to their heirs who did nothing to accumulate or advance that.

Looks like you are probably couching the general philosophy I’m trying to advocate which is, find tax revenues in wealth transfer from generation to generation. Just in a more sophisticated way, which I can appreciate. Thanks for the learning. Inheritance is absolutely the most inequitable privileged mechanism that exists today. It keeps rich elites offspring as rich elites even as subsequent generations generally do less to contribute to society.

the trust is allegedly still worth 11 billion but it’s opaque. fine pick another one, DuPonts, Melons, Carnegie’s... I just picked that one dynasty because the business actions of one or two, resulted in a financial empire for six generations! my point here is nepotistic wealth is the least equitable means to wealth. So tax the heck out of that.

On the later point, I may, I don’t understand the details behind the basis point you’re advocating. On the former, rather than toss an arbitrary number out, I’d suggest a well intentioned study to consider an appropriate answer. But income tax penalizes earning income. I believe that inherited windfalls are much less deserved than earned windfalls from ones own efforts. even 100% inheritance tax could be rationalized as an extremely fair way to ensure equal opportunity as a thought experiment.

I only point to the Rockefeller’s because they’ve resulted in 140 years of billionaires. Waltons another perfectly great example. as far as how to delineate, it’s a problem to be thought about, but if society really values equal opportunity, target the generational wealth transfers that have absolutely nothing to do with someone’s work ethic, abilities and merit to society. just like Bill Gates capped his own children’s inheritance. The top 1% own 30+ trillion of wealth. The bottom half own 2.5 trillion of wealth. Curtail the ability to build defacto royalty. These are the same people that control and influence all the worst aspects of our political systems.

Ok then exempt legitimate farms maybe. My point is wealthy inheritances seems like a fair target in some shape or form to get tax revenues assuming they have to come from somewhere. People shouldn’t be dependent on their parents to make their own way in the world in my opinion and these families that structure generational family wealth also tend to be tied to corruption around the political elite.

AP had an interesting take on this.. https://apnews.com/article/dca11e4f78f8f30d18db7a14e8b17d39

I know the farm example is a common one, however fundamentally inheritance is an entitlement imo, particularly handing down a generation. It’s like a winning lottery ticket. It’s not earned. Therefore I see it as something that should be heavily taxed. And maybe even capped. For most people, if they want to go start a business like a farm they need to figure how to obtain start up capital, not hope a rich uncle kicks the bucket. It’s backward there are still Rockefeller billionaires running around 140 years later.

I’m a big proponent of inheritance wealth transfer tax. These financial family empires that transcend generations seem like a very fair and reasonable target.

https://www.rt.com/usa/520192-yemenis-terrorism-arrested-border/ need to go to foreign press to hear about what’s happening here.