A new tax can work if it compels banks to report assets. All large financial transfers already get reported. I’m talking about a 30 million annual tax on billionaires. That can work, and you have to ask why we want people with obscene amounts of money not paying to provide 21st century facilities and institutions. They can keep their mansions and yachts, no financial harm will come fo them. Why is it ok for us plebes to pay 30% of our income to the feds like good citizens, but the Bezos’ of the world aren’t even kicking 5% of their annual “income”.

I don’t think a clean wealth tax can get through Congress, and SCOTUS isn’t going to allow one to be introduced through reconciliation without opining. But taxing the wealthy is the only change that can actually pay for infrastructure.

I tried.

What do you find interesting about it?  An unskilled, inexperienced worker who admitted he ran a Facebook group admonishing those who can’t get applicants for jobs, was “interviewed” by Business Insider. That alone makes both the subject and publisher suspect as an objective information source, but ok, to each their own. He then says he “applied” to 60 jobs, and received 9 emails and an interview. The places and jobs he applied for are never specified, save the garbage collection job paying $10 an hour.

Do you not feel his hostility towards working at any of these places since he specifically sought them out factored into his applications and demands?  Does his lack of any skill or education not speak to his worthiness of earning an unspecified wage over $12 an hour?

What did you find interesting about his story? 

Or was it his comment “ 58 applications says y'all aren't desperate for workers, you just miss your slaves." just a sentiment you agree with? 

I’ve read the article you posted, and don’t find it to be particularly interesting, and more importantly informative. The writer says so themselves:

“ Holz acknowledged, however, that his results may not be representative of the larger labor challenges in the country, since his search was local and specifically targeted the most vocal critics of stimulus spending.”

What I find interesting is that this entire article is predicated on a goof some random person on the internet did, and doesn’t really offer anything but animus to the notion that the restaurant industry isn’t struggling to find reliable wait staff, and/or their lack of applicants is due to poor pay under the unqualified assumption that every person should be paid at least “X” for their labor. I say “X” because the author nor interviewee ever state an appropriate wage for picking up trash. The popular slogan previously was $15, but the so called “squad” has already adjusted that number to $25+.

I say interesting because you say you want to participate in discussions, but often completely ignore the posts of people you’re choosing to engage with daily. You do you and all. I’m just genuinely curious what you found interesting about this article and what aspects of it you’d like to discuss.

I’ve clearly read the article you linked into this discussion and said you found interesting. I hope you’ll at least give some effort in responding since you want to be part of the discussion.

I don't disagree that his parkinsons and cancer are the primary causes of death, but the US made a decision in March 2020 to count everyone who died with COVID as a COVID death.  That figure literally counts gang bangers who died from a gun shot wound, but tested positive for COVID in the ICU.  George Floyd was originally a COVID death until they manually excluded his name from the database.  I've been making the statement you're making for over a year as to why we shouldn't drive decisions based on the official COVID death tracker, but most people were fine with it because bigger, scarier numbers empower more government overreach.  My state took COVID as an opportunity to install license plate readers on every stretch of highway under the guise of no longer needing an EZ Pass (a RFID device people in the states use to pay tolls on highway systems), and no one bitched or thought twice that the government now is tracking every vehicle movement. Look at the vaccine mandate.  The smallpox epidemic of 1901 that progressives point to for legal justification of a COVID vaccine mandate had a 17% mortality rate for those infected.  If you accept the official known cases of COVID in the US and "deaths", the US has a roughly 1.6% mortality rate for COVID.  The CDC estimates the real amount of COVID infections is over 100M, so the mortality rate is closer to .5%.  Much easier to tell when someone had smallpox versus COVID, and as you pointed out, the way the CDC captures COVID deaths in the US leaves a lot of context and nuance out of the figure, so the true mortality rate is even lower than .5%.  If you don't see a distinction in urgency and danger between roughly 1/5 dying and 1/200 dying, there's no real conversation to be had.

There is no such thing as an illegal war.  That's just something 1st world nations use to paint themselves as morally superior.  The US likes to trumpet itself as the guardian of free thought and expression, but Edward Snowden showed the world the US is collecting data in the same way China is on its citizens.   But yes, Powell acknowledged his testimony at the UN was a blight on his record.  Still doesn't ignore the decades of service and good will he extended towards his nation.  My flag will be flown lower today.

I don’t think she’s a liberal. Not in the sense it’s used today. Manchin has certainly clarified his stance on the issue.

I’m surprised more are willing to put their names behind the 3.5 trillion monstrosity. When Pelosi is celebrating how the uninformed are in complete support of the plan, any person interested in discourse and informed decisions should have been outraged. It’s why most popularity polls mean nothing to me. Most people acknowledge the majority of people are dumbasses, yet cling to the notion of popular opinion as if it has any connection to being an informed principle. The majority of the country was all for Iraq until they weren’t.

But we’re at a point where chasing someone into the bathroom is defended by nearly half the nation. We may have passed the point of no return. I’m terrified to think of the riots that will start again and be spun positively in the media narrative when the GOP gains power back in 22 and 24.