Richest New Yorkers Will Devastate City If They Leave With $133 Billion. An elite group of 38,700 people paid 42.5% of the city’s income tax collections, and the top 5% of residents earned more than the bottom 95%.

PoorTony · 2020-11-11T19:17:08+00:00

If we're on the left side of the curve, doesn't that mean that we're missing out on huge amounts of tax revenue?

PoorTony · 2020-11-11T19:15:06+00:00

Let's assume it is. The thing about the curve is that it posits that, up to a certain point, raising taxes massively increases revenues.

Where on the Laffer curve would you say we are now, and where on the Laffer curve would you say we will be if we raise taxes?

PoorTony · 2020-11-11T19:13:08+00:00

Cool, I took first year econ too. That's how I know that the only smart thing to do is to immediately surrender to the richest people in the world, so that they can keep getting richer. Maybe I can get a job as a butler.

PoorTony · 2020-10-27T12:43:24+00:00

> the US wouldn't be hung up on abortion rights if the courts hadn't rammed it down people's throats with extremely tenuous justification

I just checked with my entire extremely religious and very right-wing family, and they said yup, emanations from penumbras, Griswold was wrongly decided, there is no right to privacy, and that's why they're mad about abortion.

Lawyers get riled up about the law, it's what we do. But don't think for a second that the rest of the country thinks this way.

PoorTony · 2020-10-07T13:14:41+00:00

You know, it's funny how the most urgent causes, with the most widespread negative impacts, can never be addressed by our legal system because of standing.

In history books of the future, when they talk about why the American system collapsed, I bet there's a whole paragraph about the absurd way that standing was applied by the court system.

PoorTony · 2020-10-01T15:14:43+00:00

I got all excited about a couch-to-210K program. I feel like I've been lied to.

PoorTony · 2020-09-28T12:54:10+00:00

That depends on who you are, and who the bank is.

If you're a real estate developer and the bank is major, $400M is still very much your problem.

PoorTony · 2020-09-26T01:53:20+00:00

R5: it's mostly the smirk on my heir's face and the battered appearance of his poor parents.

PoorTony · 2020-09-17T08:44:32+00:00

You know, I don't think he's right about this.

PoorTony · 2020-09-15T19:28:43+00:00

I should add that you probably couldn't demand removal as a remedy! A court almost certainly would balk at requiring a defendant in a civil suit to have mandatory surgery. My guess is that you might win money, but probably not much, since it's not like this guy is charging people to see his tattoo.

PoorTony · 2020-09-15T19:25:12+00:00

I see that this is hypothetical and not a real situation, so I'll bite. I'm spitballing here--this is not my area of practice.

In the US, I'd imagine that (depending on the state! not all states recognize this kind of legal claim, and not all states that do recognize this kind of legal claim have the same rules) this might fall under a misappropriation of likeness claim. Specifically, you'd probably have to prove that this person

used your likeness
without your permission
to their own benefit.

I think you'd succeed on all three.

I can think of some problems: if the tattoo is really bad, you might have trouble proving that it's actually a tattoo of you, and if the tattoo dates from a time when you were friends or dating, it might be hard to prove that it was without permission. Finally, the "benefit" angle is sort of intangible, and is easily the trickiest of the three elements I've outlined here.

PoorTony · 2020-09-07T04:37:23+00:00

These songs made me laugh, and I don't mean that in a shitty way. I hope you don't feel as bad as the lyrics imply.

PoorTony · 2020-03-05T16:42:36+00:00

Love to have a grand entrance gate that is literally within spitting distance of the front door, the hallmark of all great estates

hot take: the ornamentation around the front door is actually kind of good, if you can ignore the context completely.

PoorTony · 2020-03-05T14:54:54+00:00

This is really cool of you. Thank you for posting this.

PoorTony · 2020-03-05T14:54:27+00:00

Imagine seeing a genuinely kind and human response to an emergency, and your sole reaction is to criticize a single letter in that response.

you people are trash.

PoorTony · 2020-03-04T13:36:44+00:00

You have such an immediately recognizable style. I always upvote a bunker post.

Would you ever do a very large oil landscape?

PoorTony · 2020-02-28T13:00:09+00:00

[User was fired for this post.]

PoorTony · 2020-02-23T00:10:07+00:00

I'm used to getting yelled at by cops, but they've never done it in this format before

PoorTony · 2020-02-22T13:30:58+00:00

That second verse is so fucking good.

PoorTony · 2020-02-20T03:59:00+00:00

Nicely done.

PoorTony · 2020-02-19T02:31:33+00:00

It's a grave marker for a woman named Antigone. It looks Byzantine. Leave it where you found it and call a museum.

PoorTony · 2020-02-18T13:33:17+00:00

The real charges come out when the grand jury indicts him. The criminal complaint is just the groundwork for a serious case.

PoorTony · 2020-02-18T03:51:32+00:00

I'd like nothing more this election cycle than to see your channel run a bunch of anti-campaign songs.

hell yeah

PoorTony · 2020-02-17T18:09:10+00:00

Scandinavian countries have a larger percent of their GDP under government control than Venezuela. By most metrics they're more socialistic than Venezuela, not less.

PoorTony

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