Frugal families sold their tapes, sold their VCRs, and sought their fortunes on the high seas.
Rivalarrival
joined 1 year ago
Exactly.
Our focus needs to be on class issues: Wealth disparity, healthcare, housing. We need big, systemic solutions, not bandaids.
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Top tier income tax rate needs to return to the punitive levels it was at before Reagan: Ultra-high earners need to decide between spending a lot of money on tax deductible expenses (like labor), or giving the majority of that money to the IRS.
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We need a wealth tax. Not on all wealth, just certain kinds of assets. Specifically, a tax on registered securities, such as stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments. Exempt the first $10 million held by natural persons, as we do need capital investment. However, that capital should be coming from (and owed back to) the working class. Pretty much every worker should be receiving shares of their company as part of their compensation.
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Rent needs to die in a goddamn fire. Hardly anybody should be renting residential property. To that end, we need massive increases on property taxes that are exempted for owner-occupants. Raise the property taxes (and exemptions) and keep raising them, until the landlords figure out they can make more money as private lenders to their (former) tenants than as landlords to those same tenants. The few actual landlords remaining will be owners of duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes, who live in one of the units and rent out the remainder. Apartment complexes will be reconfigured as condominiums.
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Universal Healthcare. True universal healthcare. Single payer. You show up at the doctor's office, urgent care, ER, pharmacy, and you'll never see a bill. We'll pay for it with that securities tax. Employer-sponsored healthcare can remain a thing, but there should be no tax benefit or other public support for it.
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We do need a minimum wage (around $15/hr today) but we need a "standard wage" that is substantially higher. (Around $22/hr today) A living wage. All businesses must pay at least a minimum wage. Large businesses (Or franchisees of large businesses) must start at that standard wage.
The one good thing that is coming from this is that this loss is motivating liberal voters to build a "Guillotine Party", to do to Democratic leadership what the Tea Party did to the GOP.
Can't wait to Baader-Meinhoff this one...
The last successful third party was the Tea Party, which was formed by people fed up with the GOP.
We need a Guillotine Party.
Having too many communities prevent potential posters from knowing where to post.
Post in any of them, or any combination of them.
When I find a good community, I tend to join the communities they recommend. I would suggest Sidebar links to related communities for others to join.
Power tripping mods can be reported
What is the purpose of such a report? Seems like pointless drama in a decentralized environment.
The internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.
Just join them all.
Do all of these communities serve a distinct purpose?
They serve the purpose of redundancy. Power-tripping moderators and administrators are less able to silence reasonable dissent when dissenters can just run to other instances. When various instances fail, the others pick up automatically.
My advice: Don't setup dual boot.
Instead, setup Virtualbox in your Linux instance, and install Windows in a VM. You'll have access to a windows "crutch", without having to leave Linux to use it.
The laundromat has angry people who don't want to be there,
I live in a college town. The laundromat nearest me has a bar.
For what I'm paying in mortgage and one car loan, I couldn't afford rent on an apartment in the nearest city. Whatever single family home I could afford to buy in the city, I wouldn't want to live in.
Today, it takes a family with both parents, or partners, working just to have enough money to pay a mortgage and two auto loans (none if they live in a city and are smart).
If they live in the city, they aren't paying a mortgage and two auto loans. The money they'd spend on all three in the outer suburbs is instead going to a landlord.
Since you're outsourcing this, the adjudicator is either the first contract killer involved, or the second contract killer you specifically hired to deal with that first contract killer.