You’re arguing for regulatory capture.

Please dont do that.

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.

Regulations are supposed to be designed in such a way that the “loophole” to avoid responsibility is the actual effect the regulator is seeking.

The objective is to increase fuel economy. If you are designing a regulation to increase fuel economy, you would identify the best method the industry has come up with, the worst method the industry has come up with. You’d use a carrot approach on the best method, and a stick approach on the worst.

They didn’t do that. They created a perverse regulatory incentive where a small, naturally-economical car has to meet the highest, toughest standard. They are smacking the smallest car with the stick, and the smaller the manufacturer makes that car, the harder they get hit.

If the smallest subcompacts were legally allowed to get 10mpg, every manufacturer would be making subcompacts. They’d be fighting to shrink down their compacts to qualify as subcompacts, and would actually be getting 50+ mpg.

But that’s not the regulatory environment we have. The regulations say “This drivetrain you already have will meet next year’s standards if you widen the body by an inch. Yes, widening it will decrease the MPG relative to this year’s model, but you’ll still be under the limits of the next higher bracket.”

Eliminate that perverted incentive, and cars will get smaller.

Reminds me of the old M274 Mule. Basically, they ripped the body off a WWII Jeep and replaced it with a flatbed.

Go talk to the NHTSA. It’s their regulations that are keeping US manufacturers from making small cars.

Apparently, it is an English translation of a French copypasta.

Without laughing.

I think I can fuck up a polar bear with bare hands.

I practice MMA for 7 years now, boxing in parallel for 6 years, I could. Not to count strength training at the gym for 4 years, 6ft 1 1/2 for 189 lbs.

I have an insane speed, reflexes similar to my speed. I just have to wait for him to charge me, dodge his attacks, and throw good punches to his head. I won’t stop, and at the smallest mistake he does, the polar bear is finished.

Well, it may not have been the basis in the past…

Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. They explain how language has been used in the past. They do not regulate the intention of a speaker in the future.

Prescriptively, “literally” and “figuratively” are antonyms. Descriptively, they have been used synonymously.

Having learned this “pusillanimous” meaning, you are now capable of comprehending the intent of someone employing it, much as I am capable of recognizing that “literally” no longer reliably describes the concept of literality.

Womp womp.

Obviously a DEI hire, amirite?

(it pains me, but I feel like I need to add the /s)

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.

“We’re gonna need some more buttons in here.”