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The ultrarich mostly aren’t escaping the tax system through exotic loopholes.
They mostly increase their fortunes with and spend regular taxable income
— salaries, dividends, interest, business profits, realized capital gains
— and they earn a lot of it.
This means the most powerful lever is also the simplest one.
Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6 percent
— which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied t…

Opinion | The Simple Answer to Taxing the Rich Is the Best Answer
Forget complex schemes. There is an easier way to get revenue from the wealthy.

Ob Diäten­erhöhung oder nicht ist letztlich Symbol­politik – den Staats­haushalt saniert es nicht. Die Frge ist hier letztlich: was für ein Symbol und für wen?
Und wenn wir schon dabei sind, sollten wir Diäten vielleicht so behandeln wie andere staatliche Leistungen¹ wie die Grundsicherung: Einkünfte aus anderen Quellen² werden voll angerechnet. Auch das ist Symbol­politik, und dieses Symbol wendet sich an die Abgeordneten selbst, die die Sozial­gesetze beschließen.
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With deal done, Aubrey’s goal: Make my next kick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-deal-done-aubrey-s-goal-make-my-next-kick

Never mind the particular interest you might choose to focus on. The world is overwhelmed with problems we can name.
Take a step backwards and consider that everything about our way of life is wrong, and this plethora of problems is the proof in the pudding.
Consider the plentiful resources available, but instead of being used for humanity, they are being hoarded and used against humanity.
The answer is simpler than most people can recognize: it is just a matter of redistri…

from my link log —
U 237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW is a symbol for azimuth.
https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
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“Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason... a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.”
Or driving any kind of car. AI, like cars, aims to reconfigure everyday life in a way that’s vastly more energy-hungry and polluting… and profitable for a few.

With deal done, Aubrey’s goal: Make my next kick https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/with-deal-done-aubrey-s-goal-make-my-next-kick

Why would a company pay you to come up with the same solutions generated by a chatbot?
The answer is, they don’t want to pay you! It’s that fucking simple!

No they want your DNA to track you.
Folks, have you seen GATTACA?
▶️ U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-bord…

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

Veteran tech investor Roger McNamee, recalled asking "Silicon Valley" creator Mike Judge what he was really going for.
Judge answered, “I think Silicon Valley is immersed in a titanic battle between the hippie value system of the Steve Jobs generation and the Ayn Randian libertarian values of the Peter Thiel generation.”
McNamee’s own read on things was less diplomatic:
“Some of us actually, as naïve as it sounds, came here to make the world a better place.
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The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch
In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's