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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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The sad thing is if this were the Republicans, they'd already have primetime ads ginning up anger and support to castrate the execs. The Dems are probably calling the CEOs and verbally washing their balls with their mouths.
 
Elon playing 5D chess.

Tiny scoop: We learned today that Twitter’s revenue is down 40 percent year over year (& Musk’s first giant interest payment on the company is due at the end of the month):
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use it for their own ends — then one made himself the CEO. @ZoeSchiffer, @CaseyNewton, and @alexeheath report, in collaboration with @verge
https://trib.al/FezDnWP
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
So the GOP wants to abolish IRS and establish a 30% sales tax.

bold plan, cotton.
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Of course they do. Poor people spend 100% of their incomes, so they pay tax on everything. Rich people spend <1% of their incomes, so they get to keep accumulating wealth forever for free.

Conservatives are as annoying and transparent as 3rd grade bullies.
 
LynahFan said:
Of course they do. Poor people spend 100% of their incomes, so they pay tax on everything. Rich people spend <1% of their incomes, so they get to keep accumulating wealth forever for free.

Conservatives are as annoying and transparent as 3rd grade bullies.
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A 40k car would have extra 12k of tax lol
 
LynahFan said:
Of course they do. Poor people spend 100% of their incomes, so they pay tax on everything. Rich people spend <1% of their incomes, so they get to keep accumulating wealth forever for free.

Conservatives are as annoying and transparent as 3rd grade bullies.
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Plus it would disincentivize the hoarders of wealth to return wealth to the economy, so they would compound their hoarding forever.
 
Forbes knows you have to transition from democracy back to feudalism slowly, or you risk the lords being butchered and their homes burned.

This would be so onerous, so immediately, even the lunkheads in the working class would probably go Jack Cade on Brookline.
 
LynahFan said:
Of course they do. Poor people spend 100% of their incomes, so they pay tax on everything. Rich people spend <1% of their incomes, so they get to keep accumulating wealth forever for free.

Conservatives are as annoying and transparent as 3rd grade bullies.
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The third grade bully would understand economics better than all Republicans...
 
Kepler said:
Forbes knows you have to transition from democracy back to feudalism slowly, or you risk the lords being butchered and their homes burned.

This would be so onerous, so immediately, even the lunkheads in the working class would probably go Jack Cade on Brookline.
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Wishful thinking..... If I thought for a second that this would happen, I'd wholeheartedly support the plan. :-O
 
Personally, I can’t wait for the conservative parties in other countries to propose this exact same BS…
 
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