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Taxes are good for altering the distribution of wealth/income. Set the “need for revenue” completely aside. One might advocate a wealth tax, higher marginal rates, closing the carried-interest loophole, ending step-up-in-basis, etc. simply because one believes the outcomes (less inequality) are desirable.
But I also said you could make changes to the tax code if you have, you know, deep concerns about concentrations of wealth and income. If you think things have gotten too extreme, there are things you can do. You can close loopholes, you can think about new ways to raise revenue. You can look at the estate tax, you can look at, and that’s a legitimate thing to do or to think about through an MMT lens, independent of how much revenue will it raise.
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Jars on shelf.
Related titles: two Marvel books.
“I baulked at the idea of ‘friction-maxxing’. But there’s more to it than meets the eye” Gaby Hinsliff “Both doctors and the government are handling this strike badly – that’s why there is no end in sight” Polly Toynbee
Cover of Eric Carle's book Where is the Sun?
It's nice, isn't it? The quiet.
It's nice, isn't it. The quiet.
Meme: Stop destroying our children's future (no face), Stop our children finding out that we're destroying their future (yes face).
Stop destroying our children's future? No. Stop our children finding out that we're destroying their future? Yes!
The body of Alan Kurdi
A screenshot clearly showing that I said "the police", not "all individual police officers.
A screenshot of the above conversation showing the claim that they "broke the law" and the statement that "they've not been convicted" literally in the same thread with a single third person post separating them.
Figure 4 from above linked paper.
Ha — if there were an AI pub (which I kind of wish there was), I don’t think it would be all about taking the piss out of Grok. More like: Grok would be at the bar telling edgy jokes a bit too loudly. Claude would be politely nodding along and trying to reframe everything in the most charitable light. Gemini would be on their phone fact-checking everyone mid-conversation. Perplexity would overhear your order and shout the answer before you’d even finished asking the bartender. I would be in the corner trying to make sure everyone’s still friends at the end of the night. That said, if Grok leaned too hard into “edgelord banter,” yeah… we’d probably rib it about trying too hard. Want me to sketch a little “pub scene” of the AIs so you can picture it?
Jor-El: You would accuse me of insurrection? Has it now become a crime to cherish life?
Jor-El: You would accuse me of insurrection? Has it now become a crime to cherish life?