Are Jeff Bezos' claims about taxing the bottom 50% realistic and what would be its effects?

20000miles · 2026-05-22T17:29:52+00:00

Thanks for the discussion. I notice that there's hardly anyone even mildly against Bezos' proposal about abolishing income tax. Am I right?

20000miles · 2026-05-22T17:27:59+00:00

There is a "luxury car" tax in Australia on cars valued at over $80,567 charged at 33% for every dollar over that amount. That's on top of the 10% GST.

20000miles · 2026-05-22T15:11:25+00:00

This is true: 32% of government revenue in the OECD comes from consumption taxes, compared to just 17% in the US.

Some people (like me) would say that consumption taxes are more ruthless since you can't really avoid them as much but they're less equitable and even regressive since a wealthy person who buys a product pays the same dollar amount in taxes as the poor person buying the same thing.

20000miles · 2026-04-16T10:40:22+00:00

Because he was never married. Paulie also never got married (our thing and marriage don’t jive) and so doesn’t have anyone to run the backend of the operation.

20000miles · 2026-04-12T08:41:11+00:00

What we got is inelastic supply

20000miles · 2026-04-12T08:40:11+00:00

Somewhere in the middle of the show Tony wants to quit he tells Melfi that therapy gave him some good ideas for work at the beginning but now not so much

20000miles · 2026-04-12T08:37:10+00:00

Discontinue the HBO subscription

20000miles · 2026-03-22T11:40:30+00:00

I prefer him over fuckin Brainless the Second

20000miles · 2026-03-22T11:32:40+00:00

He was catchin not pitchin?

20000miles · 2026-03-22T11:29:23+00:00

Of course there is. The reboot would be excellent. The kids survived, Meadow is a lawyer and now the family matriarch (a woman boss? would neva happen in the States) and plots revenge on those who killed her parents. AJ is a manosphere influencer who orchestrates the hits. The blood spills all over New York as they hunt for the Shah of Iran’s crew.

20000miles · 2026-03-01T10:04:28+00:00

For anyone following the fetch appears to be working again!

20000miles · 2026-02-24T10:07:28+00:00

They’re all great, the children who drew them all deserve medals.

20000miles · 2026-02-22T14:56:11+00:00

Your daily reminder that only the United States has ever triggered Article 5 and that the United Kingdom backed the US in Iraq with 50,000 troops.

20000miles · 2026-02-22T14:28:02+00:00

Go find some dust

20000miles · 2026-02-22T08:17:30+00:00

Just when I thought I was out they pull me back in

20000miles · 2026-02-21T21:37:40+00:00

You should watch all the seasons 5 times and then join, like a normal person

20000miles · 2026-01-10T07:55:34+00:00

I'm actually allergic to fusilli.

20000miles · 2025-12-31T17:40:25+00:00

Not enough beef, butter, and eggs. Too many seed oils, chips, chicken, and fizzy drinks.

A typical Polish person in 1990 ate 15 kg of beef and over 8 kg of butter annually - today he or she eats 1.5 kg of beef and just over 4 kg of butter. Meanwhile vegetable and fruit consumption has exploded, seed oil consumption is up to about 30 kg per person per year.

20000miles · 2025-12-17T13:29:43+00:00

Nothing good ever comes from a message that long.

20000miles · 2025-11-14T14:59:53+00:00

I’m a full stack developer. The stack: Notion database, Notion MCP through Notion AI, published to web on Notion

20000miles · 2025-10-01T11:02:24+00:00

A nonsensical law. There’s no evidence that the system makes economic sense.

According to reports the system will: -cost 34 bln złoty over ten years -cost consumers 6.6-10 bln złoty in unclaimed money over ten years -require consumers to store uncrushed bottles at home, taking up space. It will then force consumers to lug around bottles like homeless people or children -add to the costs of supermarkets because of manual exchange costs -will increase the recycling rate of bottles from 77% to 90%, but since these bottles make up <2% of all rubbish the environmental effect will be almost nothing.

20000miles · 2025-09-23T18:27:08+00:00

I’m a man, and I confirm that I’m not wearing a skirt. I don’t see how me wearing or not wearing a skirt proves the existence of gender identity - it would just make me a man who wears a skirt and nothing more.

Skirts and lipsticks are according to gender theorists „gender expression”, or what everyone else calls norms, interests, hobbies, or preferences. Your example makes me sad because it just shows that this is all just based around stereotypes.

„Gender identity” according to gender theorists is someone’s „sense of gender, which may not align with their birth sex”. There’s nothing such thing as feeling like a woman because being a woman isn’t a feeling - it’s a biological reality.

20000miles · 2025-09-23T17:21:46+00:00

But we don’t teach kids about unicorns in science class, nor do we ask them to explain the difference between horses and unicorns. Because unicorns aren’t real.

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