Tax the Billionaires?

Why Elon Musk dislikes the idea.  

FED Wealth Analysis

Billionaire Wealth Gain

I do wonder how many people would be against ensuring these folks are paying a higher rate than the normal work folks?

A Land of Free Choice

Vaccine Shot or Pink Slip.  My employer falls under the federal mandate, so it will be interesting to see what my vaccine reluctant co-workers choose?

Let's Tax the Rich?

 Are people finally okay with it?  I mean folks do not want to cut Entitlements or Defense spending. (vast majority of Federal spending)   

So the money needs to come from somewhere.  And we certainly are not going to get it from the lower 75th percentile.  What other choices do we have?

Maybe DEMs Can Win

 if Trump Urges Voter Boycott...  And people seem to keep listening to his ideas and lies. :-(

By the way, here is a final scorecard regarding the Trump Presidency.

Manchin Understands

Americans.  Too bad the DEMs do not listen to him. If they did, maybe they could rebuild their blue wall.  Instead they seem to keep ignoring the normal middle class main stream folks.  More regarding the work by David Shor.  And the possible consequences for the 2022 election.

Rural Denial Strikes Home

 

On a lighter note

Maybe folks weren't selfish chickens back then?

Politicians Play as US Totters

towards default and recession.  This comic is SO TRUE...

So what would happen if they fail to act like responsible adults who pay the bills they previously passed?  

I mean the GOP and Trump cut taxes, raised spending, did nothing about entitlements, handed out Trillions of dollars of bailouts, encouraged the FED to print money, etc.  Which of course increased the annual deficits...  And drove us to hit the debt ceiling even sooner...

And now the GOP politicians choose to play chicken with DEMs?

Me Me Me Me Me

Is that all people are concerned about?  I have been exchanging comments with some folks on FB who are skeptical and/or fearful of the COVID vaccines.  Some of their comments were:

• I am not scared of the vaccine.
• I am okay if I get COVID. My choice.
• I may experience long term issues from vaccine.
• I don't trust the main stream media.
• I don't trust the CDC, Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins, State Reporting, etc
• I am 99.7% likely to survive COVID
• I should be free to do as I wish. Just lock up the "at risk" and elderly.
• I should get excellent healthcare no matter what choices I make.

Below are some of my responses.  I am still curious how our society became so "ME" centered ???

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 Personally I am not worried about the people who choose to remain unvaccinated. That is their choice and they will need to bear the consequences.

I am concerned that they are

- more likely to be virus carriers

- more likely to be hospitalized

- filling hospitals so they need to ration care

- torturing and burning out healthcare personnel with needless deaths

The simple reality is that COVID Delta is killing people and over whelming hospitals in the states where individuals chose to not get vaccinated. (as shown below) In fact, most of the last 100,000 dead were the unvaccinated.

Thankfully this wave seems to be cresting. Let's just hope the next one will be smaller, not bigger.

How do you think injecting a weakened or dead virus into you is going to kill people decades from now? We are exposed to viruses every day. Please explain. Thanks and stay safe. John

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If by Main Stream Media, you mean the CDC, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, State Case Reporting, etc. Then I am guilty as charged.

So would we have moved everyone with high risk factors into internment camps or something, along with everyone who was need to care for them? Somehow radiated the food and supplies that were delivered to those sites? Stopped people from visiting them? For how long?

It sounds like you support the FL method over the NY method. That test so far has cost a lot of lives. It will be interesting to see what happens going forward. (see below)

Please remember that I am an analyst, not a zealot. If people want to jump off bridges, ride motorcycles without a helmet, smoke a pack a day, drive drunk, text /drive or not get vaccinated.

I am fine with that, though I do not support other citizens suffering or dying because of those choices. In this case the non-vaccinated are still filling hospitals, exposing healthcare workers to unnecessary trauma, delaying treatments / surgeries for other citizens, subjecting their family to unnecessary trauma, etc.

Maybe unvaccinated people could sign a waiver that says "society shall not need to treat me for COVID if I start finding it hard to breathe"? Or "I will be financially liable if it is proven that I have infected others and caused their death"? Then they truly would bear the consequences of their choices.

I assume you think people should be held accountable when they choose to text/ drive or drink/drive, and harm others?

It is truly a worthy discussion to have and thank you for being so polite about it.

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What source would you recommend for the other side?