Wow two whole accidents in a hundred years? One of them didn't hurt a single person? The other only killed 30 people? Crazy! That's SO dangerous?
What...? Coal mining killed a hundred thousand people in the last century? In the US alone? Wind turbines kill a few dozen a year in just the UK alone?
You're getting downvoted, but there's some truth in it. You don't just build a dam, you flood thousands of square miles and destroy hundreds of microcosms. Species have gone extinct due to dams. Not to mention that you can literally never remove them, because stupid humans build cities at their feet.
And France is doing perfectly fine with it except for skimping on maintenance and also them coming up on their end-of-life without replacement
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I go through just under a gallon a day between myself and four roommates
While this is absolutely correct, it should be noted that if you don't make enough in tips you're probably going to get fired and replaced, haha
Because a ton of wealth is caught up in assets that were already taxed in some way, or is not directly usable. Yeah I might have a few million dollars in assets, but if those are all caught up in shares of a company I'd have to sell a ton just for the mere fact of me owning them.
I'm personally not at all a fan of double-dipping on taxes. I was taxed to make money and taxed to buy stocks, that should be it until I've sold them or realized any gain from them. Property tax makes sense on some level, since you're taking up physical space and helping to pay for the utilities you use in your area. But I don't agree on a tax for just owning something otherwise, it feels incredibly scummy.
There are other solutions to the problem that don't involve losing shares in a company you've built yourself and still taxes in a way that's less shitty. The rich pay less in taxes by taking out loans against their assets, which is fine, but those loans aren't counted as income for good reason (otherwise buying a house would mean tens of thousands in taxes just for getting the loan), but they need an income to pay back those loans and that income would be taxed, so I'm not certain there's a lot that could be rightly done there, either. It would also fuck with a lot of business financials if you start progressively taxing larger loans as income, but it's something to consider I guess.
I'm not sure what the solution is. Personally I see little difference in someone having 200 million in assets and 70 billion purely from the standpoint of "how much could a person reasonably spend in a year," but I digress.
In my opinion, the more egregious issue is that the mere fact of having that much money could be easily used to manipulate markets and should be considered anti-competitive from its mere existence. Good on you for making that much money, I applaud you, but capitalism requires healthy competition and if you have literal trillions to outcompete competition by hemorrhaging money through losses for hundreds of years then that's fundamentally anti-competitive because nobody's going to challenge you. It's a losing game and breaks the capitalistic contract necessary for a healthy economy.
Companies should not have any means of becoming so unfathomably large, and that alone would resolve the issue of "paying their fair share."
Not with a wealth tax. I'd say just break up the companies and share prices will adjust to reflect.
Wealth taxes are stupid. That said, nobody needs multiple hundreds of billions of dollars.
The solution is to have regulations and laws in place that prevent them getting this large in the first place. The fact that Amazon and Google own 90% of the internet is absolutely fucked.
You don't say 1.2 thousands, you say 1.2 thousand
The amount of waste produced is extremely small for how much power you get, and is dealt with in exactly the same we we deal with literally all of our garbage: put it under ground and call it a day.