Thiel is a dangerous person and society needs to recognize this and take action. No one person should ever be allowed to hoard such power — he exploits it from the rest of us.
I wish the Pete Thiels of the world could be exiled to places without functioning institutions, where a state of nature holds sway, absolute anarchy true to their pseudo libertarian wet dreams. (I can think of a few places but withhold specific reference for now.) We’ll see how they fare in the absence of democratic protections and functioning institutions that safeguard, among other things, their accumulated wealth. Please do keep calling out these hypocritical scheming double crossers who take full advantage of the system, pretend it was all thanks to their high vibrating efforts (what the hell is that?), and then try to kick the ladder out from everyone else. It’s almost enough to make me become a democratic socialist at this late stage, but not quite, or not yet.
Every single oligarch/wealth manager has been provided with A) government subsidies or B) private capital which is only available to the already extravagantly rich. It’s crazy how unbalanced the system has become. I believe in free capital but also believe people with the power to do so have an obligation to build and create a better, fairer world.
"In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours of daily toil?
"The Socialists have said it and repeated it unwearyingly. Daily they reiterate it, demonstrating it by arguments taken from all the sciences. It is because all that is necessary for production—the land, the mines, the highways, machinery, food, shelter, education, knowledge—all have been seized by the few in the course of that long story of robbery, enforced migration and wars, of ignorance and oppression, which has been the life of the human race before it had learned to subdue the forces of Nature. It is because, taking advantage of alleged rights acquired in the past, these few appropriate to-day two-thirds of the products of human labour, and then squander them in the most stupid and shameful way. It is because, having reduced the masses to a point at which they have not the means of subsistence for a month, or even for a week in advance, the few can allow the many to work, only on the condition of themselves receiving the lion's share. It is because these few prevent the remainder of men from producing the things they need, and force them to produce, not the necessaries of life for all, but whatever offers the greatest profits to the monopolists. In this is the substance of all Socialism."
(Peter Kropotkin, "The Conquest of Bread")
"A dollar gained through the sale of a share, bond or piece of real property bestows exactly the same economic power as a dollar gained through employment or operating a business. The equity principles we hold dictate that both should be taxed in exactly the same way. To tax the gain on the disposal of property more lightly than other kinds of gains or not at all would be grossly unfair."
I did the greatest on the Marshmallow Test! The testers say they’ve never seen a score like that before. Unbelievable, folks. They say I’m the greatest when it comes to marshmallow and test!
This guy puts a marshmallow before me. I really don’t like marshmallows, seriously, but they’re free. And he tells me. If I don’t eat the marshmallow before he returns, I can have another and I thought, 💭 “Well, that’s a pretty easy deal. He must be a Democrat, because that’s the easiest deal I’ve had in years!”
But then I start thinking. 💭 “If this guys got another marshmallow somewhere, he must have a sack. Maybe a bunch of sacks! I need to find this guy and take his whole hoard of marshmallows!”
I’m telling you, this test is WAY too easy! Could you imagine some chump walking away with two measly marshmallows when you could have sacks and sacks of them? I tell you, everybody is a chump, especially these so-called “scientists.” Seriously, people!
Now you see how I couldn’t have lost the 2020 election! Do you think Sleepy Joe would have even got ONE marshmallow? Not if I was there FIRST!
So, I am not a low vibration individual nor am I jealous of someone else’s success — certainly not billionaires because I could never concentrate on just making more money— I preferred to do things that, I hope, made other people’s lives better. That is just preface to understanding that billionaires and the multi-millionaires need to share their wealth and that sharing is morally right, not just politically helpful. No one builds a business one hundred percent on their own. Aside from labor, there is all sorts of infrastructure put in place that businesses use and that was done or allowed by the govt. They utilize resources that belong to everyone. They survive through farmers who make their food, and restaurants and their workers who serve them that food. They need us to buy their product, watch their ads, share our data. We are not compensated for giving them data incidental to using their product. So, because they have gained so much from the society of which they are a part, they are obligated to give back. Also, forcing them to give up some of their wealth can lead to a slight lessening of the wealth gap which hinders economic growth. And the wealth tax is an excellent method because as long as there is a threshold number, middle class and poor people, and even the affluent, would not have to worry about paying higher taxes. And, honestly, I know they want as much as they can get, that level of money means that you can afford this tax without changing your lifestyle. We should also tax estate wealth. The kids of the billionaire may have given up time with him/her, but other than being born lucky, they have done nothing to create the wealth that they are given. This coupled with an income tax that increases their marginal tax could give us the money for social welfare programs and maybe to pay down some of our debt.
I detest the billionaire manipulations, but in Shia Islam, under the law of“taqiya”, believers are allowed to deceive non-believers if it helps Islam in some way, I.e. gain influence or power.
Doesn’t make it OK to discuss at the office, but Solana (or was it Maguire) isn’t actually wrong.
You wrote: "Solana blames California’s budget crisis on “free healthcare for illegal immigrants” costing $9.5 billion."
If I stated that an aggressive form of cancer could be cured in some cases with a two-molecule drug that costs less than $10, you and others would hopefully ask for documentation of such a statement. In the above statement, assuming no misquoting, has anyone asked the following:
• Has Solana provided documentation that free healthcare is being given to immigrants in California who are here illegally?
• Is there documentation on the number of so-called illegal immigrants in California?
• Is there also documentation of healthcare expenditures for this population of "illegals."
I am a liberal. I believe in asylum for those who are properly vetted and shown to have validity for their asking asylum. I am opposed to giving my hard-earned tax dollars to those in the US or in my state free anything. And how much my net worth is should not enter into this decision.
I spent two years in the US Army during Vietnam years and I have received not one penny of free anything. But there should be ample millions, and if needed billions spent on the issue of legal immigration since the work ethic of the American-born "worker" seems to have gone with the wind. The US and many other nations are dependent on immigrants. So, WTF, take this seriously and instead of trillions on more bombs or more jet planes that are not safe to fly put the money where it will be constructive rather than destructive.
You wrote "The proposed wealth tax would raise approximately $5 billion annually from just 200 people."
What I would like to know are the following:
• How many billionaires are residents of California?
• Is the billionaire status related to net assets or annual income?
• If annual income, and that is what is being taxed, then what are the actual amounts of money made by this group of billionaires?
If a person made, 1000000000 (billion) dollars and was taxed flatly using 10% that would mean the tax would be $100,000,000 (one hundred million) and they would still retain $900,000,000. If the billionaires made more than 1 billion a year then, of course, the tax amount would be higher.
If there are 200 billionaires, each making exactly 1 billion dollars a year, and each were taxed 10% that would come to $20,000,000,000 in taxes. That would leave $15,000,000,000 extra for use in infrastructure.
⇢ Please ensure I am not making a major math error.
⇢ Note that I am sure that our bureaucracy wastes billions of dollars every day or two. Government, both federal and state, seems to me to be very inefficient in how money is put to use. One example is paying all of Congress for doing nothing the last month. How many millions is this? And we have a nutcase POTUS spending hundreds of millions on parades, fly overs, fireworks, ballrooms, lavish dinners, while ripping off the taxpayer with family graft.
You wrote: "But he wants you focused on “Honduran fentanyl dealers in the Tenderloin” getting strep tests."
• How is Solana coming up with such statements? How could he have access to this when HIPPA does not allow me to indicate the patient's last name on a whiteboard in the ICU?
• If the statement is invalidated, then Solana loses credibility and no one wastes their time listening to him or writing editorials about him. But clearly, he should be put on the spot by responsible reporters in the various media and shown to be a liar.
The Truth is out there. Sometimes we have to scratch the dirt, and dig deeper to find it. It is the same with just about everything in our crazed country, from Tylenol® causing autism to taxpayer dollars going to research on fruit flies in Zimbabwe. Documentation-Validation is required to get closer to the TRUTH.
It is my point of view that responding to Solana's claims in the above manner would be far more fruitful than a "he said this or he said that" attack.
Attractive to "lower vibration humans" ? May I suggest these fools have the lowest vibrations of all, missing the entire point of being alive? Their vibrations resonate with the lowest circles of Dante's hell
Thiel is a dangerous person and society needs to recognize this and take action. No one person should ever be allowed to hoard such power — he exploits it from the rest of us.
I wish the Pete Thiels of the world could be exiled to places without functioning institutions, where a state of nature holds sway, absolute anarchy true to their pseudo libertarian wet dreams. (I can think of a few places but withhold specific reference for now.) We’ll see how they fare in the absence of democratic protections and functioning institutions that safeguard, among other things, their accumulated wealth. Please do keep calling out these hypocritical scheming double crossers who take full advantage of the system, pretend it was all thanks to their high vibrating efforts (what the hell is that?), and then try to kick the ladder out from everyone else. It’s almost enough to make me become a democratic socialist at this late stage, but not quite, or not yet.
Every single oligarch/wealth manager has been provided with A) government subsidies or B) private capital which is only available to the already extravagantly rich. It’s crazy how unbalanced the system has become. I believe in free capital but also believe people with the power to do so have an obligation to build and create a better, fairer world.
To coventry with them.
I'll keep saying it:
"In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours of daily toil?
"The Socialists have said it and repeated it unwearyingly. Daily they reiterate it, demonstrating it by arguments taken from all the sciences. It is because all that is necessary for production—the land, the mines, the highways, machinery, food, shelter, education, knowledge—all have been seized by the few in the course of that long story of robbery, enforced migration and wars, of ignorance and oppression, which has been the life of the human race before it had learned to subdue the forces of Nature. It is because, taking advantage of alleged rights acquired in the past, these few appropriate to-day two-thirds of the products of human labour, and then squander them in the most stupid and shameful way. It is because, having reduced the masses to a point at which they have not the means of subsistence for a month, or even for a week in advance, the few can allow the many to work, only on the condition of themselves receiving the lion's share. It is because these few prevent the remainder of men from producing the things they need, and force them to produce, not the necessaries of life for all, but whatever offers the greatest profits to the monopolists. In this is the substance of all Socialism."
(Peter Kropotkin, "The Conquest of Bread")
"A dollar gained through the sale of a share, bond or piece of real property bestows exactly the same economic power as a dollar gained through employment or operating a business. The equity principles we hold dictate that both should be taxed in exactly the same way. To tax the gain on the disposal of property more lightly than other kinds of gains or not at all would be grossly unfair."
(Royal Commission on Taxation, Report, 1966, Volume 1, Introduction, Kenneth Carter, Chair)
I’d like to see Trump with the Marshmallow Test.
I did the greatest on the Marshmallow Test! The testers say they’ve never seen a score like that before. Unbelievable, folks. They say I’m the greatest when it comes to marshmallow and test!
This guy puts a marshmallow before me. I really don’t like marshmallows, seriously, but they’re free. And he tells me. If I don’t eat the marshmallow before he returns, I can have another and I thought, 💭 “Well, that’s a pretty easy deal. He must be a Democrat, because that’s the easiest deal I’ve had in years!”
But then I start thinking. 💭 “If this guys got another marshmallow somewhere, he must have a sack. Maybe a bunch of sacks! I need to find this guy and take his whole hoard of marshmallows!”
I’m telling you, this test is WAY too easy! Could you imagine some chump walking away with two measly marshmallows when you could have sacks and sacks of them? I tell you, everybody is a chump, especially these so-called “scientists.” Seriously, people!
Now you see how I couldn’t have lost the 2020 election! Do you think Sleepy Joe would have even got ONE marshmallow? Not if I was there FIRST!
So, I am not a low vibration individual nor am I jealous of someone else’s success — certainly not billionaires because I could never concentrate on just making more money— I preferred to do things that, I hope, made other people’s lives better. That is just preface to understanding that billionaires and the multi-millionaires need to share their wealth and that sharing is morally right, not just politically helpful. No one builds a business one hundred percent on their own. Aside from labor, there is all sorts of infrastructure put in place that businesses use and that was done or allowed by the govt. They utilize resources that belong to everyone. They survive through farmers who make their food, and restaurants and their workers who serve them that food. They need us to buy their product, watch their ads, share our data. We are not compensated for giving them data incidental to using their product. So, because they have gained so much from the society of which they are a part, they are obligated to give back. Also, forcing them to give up some of their wealth can lead to a slight lessening of the wealth gap which hinders economic growth. And the wealth tax is an excellent method because as long as there is a threshold number, middle class and poor people, and even the affluent, would not have to worry about paying higher taxes. And, honestly, I know they want as much as they can get, that level of money means that you can afford this tax without changing your lifestyle. We should also tax estate wealth. The kids of the billionaire may have given up time with him/her, but other than being born lucky, they have done nothing to create the wealth that they are given. This coupled with an income tax that increases their marginal tax could give us the money for social welfare programs and maybe to pay down some of our debt.
I detest the billionaire manipulations, but in Shia Islam, under the law of“taqiya”, believers are allowed to deceive non-believers if it helps Islam in some way, I.e. gain influence or power.
Doesn’t make it OK to discuss at the office, but Solana (or was it Maguire) isn’t actually wrong.
I mean, that's true in the libertarian paradise too. Free speech is absolute and deceit is only checked by reputation systems.
Now I understand : I am proudly a “low vibration human.”
You wrote: "Solana blames California’s budget crisis on “free healthcare for illegal immigrants” costing $9.5 billion."
If I stated that an aggressive form of cancer could be cured in some cases with a two-molecule drug that costs less than $10, you and others would hopefully ask for documentation of such a statement. In the above statement, assuming no misquoting, has anyone asked the following:
• Has Solana provided documentation that free healthcare is being given to immigrants in California who are here illegally?
• Is there documentation on the number of so-called illegal immigrants in California?
• Is there also documentation of healthcare expenditures for this population of "illegals."
I am a liberal. I believe in asylum for those who are properly vetted and shown to have validity for their asking asylum. I am opposed to giving my hard-earned tax dollars to those in the US or in my state free anything. And how much my net worth is should not enter into this decision.
I spent two years in the US Army during Vietnam years and I have received not one penny of free anything. But there should be ample millions, and if needed billions spent on the issue of legal immigration since the work ethic of the American-born "worker" seems to have gone with the wind. The US and many other nations are dependent on immigrants. So, WTF, take this seriously and instead of trillions on more bombs or more jet planes that are not safe to fly put the money where it will be constructive rather than destructive.
You wrote "The proposed wealth tax would raise approximately $5 billion annually from just 200 people."
What I would like to know are the following:
• How many billionaires are residents of California?
• Is the billionaire status related to net assets or annual income?
• If annual income, and that is what is being taxed, then what are the actual amounts of money made by this group of billionaires?
If a person made, 1000000000 (billion) dollars and was taxed flatly using 10% that would mean the tax would be $100,000,000 (one hundred million) and they would still retain $900,000,000. If the billionaires made more than 1 billion a year then, of course, the tax amount would be higher.
If there are 200 billionaires, each making exactly 1 billion dollars a year, and each were taxed 10% that would come to $20,000,000,000 in taxes. That would leave $15,000,000,000 extra for use in infrastructure.
⇢ Please ensure I am not making a major math error.
⇢ Note that I am sure that our bureaucracy wastes billions of dollars every day or two. Government, both federal and state, seems to me to be very inefficient in how money is put to use. One example is paying all of Congress for doing nothing the last month. How many millions is this? And we have a nutcase POTUS spending hundreds of millions on parades, fly overs, fireworks, ballrooms, lavish dinners, while ripping off the taxpayer with family graft.
You wrote: "But he wants you focused on “Honduran fentanyl dealers in the Tenderloin” getting strep tests."
• How is Solana coming up with such statements? How could he have access to this when HIPPA does not allow me to indicate the patient's last name on a whiteboard in the ICU?
• If the statement is invalidated, then Solana loses credibility and no one wastes their time listening to him or writing editorials about him. But clearly, he should be put on the spot by responsible reporters in the various media and shown to be a liar.
The Truth is out there. Sometimes we have to scratch the dirt, and dig deeper to find it. It is the same with just about everything in our crazed country, from Tylenol® causing autism to taxpayer dollars going to research on fruit flies in Zimbabwe. Documentation-Validation is required to get closer to the TRUTH.
It is my point of view that responding to Solana's claims in the above manner would be far more fruitful than a "he said this or he said that" attack.
Attractive to "lower vibration humans" ? May I suggest these fools have the lowest vibrations of all, missing the entire point of being alive? Their vibrations resonate with the lowest circles of Dante's hell
Insightful, as always!