The fact that he collected billions in the first place is the problem. He should have been charging consumers less, and paying his workers more. He never should have accumulated his obscene wealth to begin with.

princess Leia owned a ton of slaves.

You mean “droids”?

They know what causes that now.

This guy’s next job will be head of marketing for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

post incarceration.

Author of this article is serving a life sentence. He’s been in prison over 15 years so far, and won’t be eligible for parole for another 52 years, at which time he will be 97 years old.

“Post incarceration”, he’ll be mailed to his next of kin in a tiny plastic bag.

I do think he should be earning at least minimum wage for his work while imprisoned, but $6.25 of his $7.25/hr wages should be garnished and divided among the estates of his victim(s). If they refuse the money, the state should offer the job to any other prisoner whose victims will actually accept restitution.

You frame it like those are the only two choices. They aren’t.

No, I provided a simplistic, informal explanation, not a conclusive evaluation.

The third choice is capital flight.

Let the parasites leave. That’s the point. They are sucking the working class dry, and we would be better off without them.

Your argument operates under the assumption that a member of the current ownership class needs to be involved for a business to be successful. That is simply untrue. They aren’t the component enabling employment. They are the parasite leeching our productivity.

The reality is that the most prosperous era of American history was made under a 91% tax rate, specifically because such a tax rate drives capital into the control of the working class.

It applies to income, not salaries, and it applies to corporate income as well as personal income. Nobody needs to pay it for it to achieve its purpose. Indeed, nobody should be paying it, ever.

You have a choice. I’ll give you $900 for you to do anything you want with. Alternatively, I’ll give you $10,000, but you can only spend it on something that you can convince me is something you need for your business.

You can buy $900 of GOOG, or you can spend $10,000 on a bunch of electronics. You can buy $900 of AAPL, or spend $10,000 “entertaining clients” at a strip club.

You can buy $900 worth of stocks, or purchase goods and services produced by workers.

Nobody is taking the $900 here. Everyone is taking the $10,000. Nobody is paying 91% on $10,000 over the line. You can get much more value from your large “business” spending than you can get from your small investment.

Now, if the numbers are $6300 on anything, or $10,000 on business, a lot of people are going to take the $6300. This is a top-tier of 37%.

$7500 on anything, or $10,000 on business, most people are going to take the $7500. This is a top-tier of 25%.

The 91% tax rate isn’t for the government to spend more money. The 91% tax rate is to ensure the richest among us get greater value from hiring workers than they do from buying securities.

I used to get this all the time. Now, if I get a hangnail, I liberally drench my hands in lotion, and put on nitrile gloves for an hour or so to force it to soak in.

A family friend gets me Gojo Hand Medic, which my fragile masculinity appreciates.

I also found it works well for breaking in leather work gloves.

We’re a 1950’s 91% top-tier tax rate away from the same.

Agreed. Simple, cheap, reliable, and faster than struggling with that piece of shit opener that barely works and you should have thrown away years ago.

If I were running a soup kitchen, I’d have a different preference, but reliable lever openers like the P38, P51, or even the opener on a leatherman serves my needs better than any of these POS twist-style openers.

It’s (almost) summer. The snowbirds have come back home from Florida.

For every 50 kids that~~'s~~ are responsible enough to have unrestricted device access there’s 50 one more who just aren’t isn’t mature enough yet.

FTFY.

https://247wallst.com/media/2019/07/23/over-2000-american-newspapers-have-closed-in-past-15-years/

Trump and his team were touting all the countries eager to make deals with the U.S. on trade. They changed their tune when it became clear such deals wouldn’t materialize quickly.

FTFY.

The French revolution - and most of that history - contradict your hypotheses.

Science demands rigorous testing of all three of those hypotheses before making a conclusion.

Dude probably gets a standing ovation every time he enters a room.

Flat, flat, spike, spike, handle, butt, handle, butt, B, A Start.

I didn’t say AOC was part of the problem. My criticism was limited to David Hogg.

AOC isn’t the entire solution, but she’s a big part of it.

“Guillotine Party” effectively summarizes what’s needed.