What if you just print money instead of taxing, and index incomes to price rises so everyone's real purchasing power is kept stable?
Surely someone has done a thesis on this, good luck finding it with modern search engines. In principle a steady and significant rate of inflation could be positive, but you've still got to have some mechanism for people to build wealth or else the best you can achieve is that everyone stays poor together.
Being in denial about how people are is a big part of how we got here. I constantly run into people saying "oh I can't believe how hateful people are" and shit like that because they weren't exposed to it. I live in a part of California where logging is still a primary source of employment and spent a couple years fixing trailers and I heard all manner of ill shit that other people don't experience because they're not a big white guy wearing carharts and turning wrenches. If you think you have some idea of what kind of repugnant ideas are out there you haven't heard a damned thing until they take you to be one of them.
It's a simple fact that people who haven't had as much exposure to other people and cultures are ignorant about them. And it's also a fact that people who don't know shit typically don't have any idea how much they don't know. But that works in all directions, see?
The moral high ground is easy when there are no consequences to you.
You have no idea what consequences I'm facing.
I think you have not been looking carefully enough.
Oh, I've been looking carefully all right.
more voting power than they deserved.
Generally, the south managed to get either pro-slavery or neutral presidents elected
Thank you for proving my point there.
No.
Let's abolish listening to clowns who think all taxation is theft, they only want to burn everything down instead of fixing it because they are weak minded and lazy.
10-20 years is a long time in semiconductor process technology years whether China knows it or not.
I've never encountered any real conservatives that I know of. They all want to turn the clock back, not slow it down.
It's hallucinating solutions
But what is the tax?
Decrease in traffic, which reduces revenues. Was that supposed to be a trick question?
in a democracy we have to accept compromise and probably should expect it.
We learned in the 1940s that you can't compromise with Nazis. Then we forgot all about it and now we've got Nazis everyfuckingwhere.
Too bad we didn't do what Germany did after WWII, but after the civil war, and educate people as to why being uber-racists is bad. Instead we gave them the electoral college so they could have more voting power than they deserved.
We're the only country which still has an electoral college and guess what? It's a fucking shit show which only serves to let shitty people have an outsized voice in government.
Also from Louis CK:
His dick out at inappropriate times
The Sims is in a period of transition
It identifies as GACHA.
we're just not that big a deal yet in the planet-modifying game.
If that were true, we'd have nothing to do. Emitting orders of magnitude more CO2 than volcanism makes us a big deal.
"Not really any different than people who want to believe Trump."
Trump lies more than any three of them combined, and that is different. The difference may be only one of degree, but it's still different, and your accusations of sycophancy are a poor disguise for yours and based on unfounded assumptions. Run along and preach false equivalence on behalf of a fascist traitor dictator rapist elsewhere if you must, I'm not buying.
"One day I woke up and discovered that I was in love with tripe." -- Tom Anderson
