My personal thoughts are:

• Close carried interest loop holes
• Tax loans against unrealized gains on securities and physical property (excluding ones primary residence). You should not be able to take a billion dollar loan out to avoid capital gains taxes. I’m fine that this raises the basis for when the asset is sold. Well, someone do the math if there’s a loophole this creates? But hopefully my intent is clear.
• Social security and Medicare tax applies to all income. Shares granted as part of compensation should also have social taxes payable on grant.
• Increase the tax brackets above the current max of 37% for income above $609k… Every 250kish above should increase by 2% until you reach 50% (about 2.5m)

That money should then be used for:

• Increasing social security payouts
• Expanding medicare access
• Increasing the limits for the tax brackets on the progressive scale for incomes below 250k

To boost the bottom:

• Stock buybacks are illegal except for the purposes of distributing stock to employees. This counts for executives but cannot exceed some multiple of their cash salary
• 20% of money flagged as dividend payments to shareholders should be distributed to employees as profit sharing into their retirement account. There needs to be rules around the max differential between the highest and lowest disbursement.

“However, one of the 14 crew members on the Portuguese-flagged Solong cargo ship is missing, the vessel’s owner Ernst Russ says.”

The Solong.

The universe is trolling us.

Did that with star wars ep 7, 8, 9. Of course there was stuff I didn’t love but I didn’t walk away from the movie feeling robbed.

Dickish Orangutans Grifting Everyone

21% is under 18. Closer to 30% of Americans of voting age voted for the Nazi.

I debated cancelling before and just waited since my sub also renewed just before. I pushed the button today, though. Fuck Bezos.

There’s obviously truth to there being diminishing returns, but this chart is garbage.

To also explain a part of the American tax system… people who are super excited to get a ton of money back on their taxes via refunds are complete idiots.

That’s a direct function of paying too much withholding and not calibrating against their relevant deductions. Some of these people also feel that their tax burden has gone up if their refund is smaller from one year to the next, which may or may not be accurate.

I had hoped that this guy was going to turn out alright after pizza gate. From what I remember, after he stormed in he realized he was misled and that this was simply a pizza restaurant.

Turns out he’s just insane and stupid.

And you have a leap year in a non even year

Story of my life. And they always yell.

My favorite old guy I worked with, I was around 25 at the time, he was early 70s.

We used to joke that I’d call him with a wake up call when I was getting home from the bar, and he could return the favor when he took his morning break. He was in the office every day at 5:30.

Easily my favorite show of the last 5 years

This was pretty solid! I started it expecting it to be background noise while I doom scrolled… But I got absolutely hooked

The answer is Wallace. Every old dude with a desk near me has been a solid guy who shuts the fuck up and always makes coffee before I get in.

TV, but same idea…

I didn’t particularly hate Dexter season 5. The later seasons were worse, and of course it doesn’t hold a candle to season 4… But I just don’t get the flat out hate. It was fine, and I kinda liked it.

CNN saying there were also gas tanks and camping fuel

But that’s one where they’re leaning much closer to the Dutch pronunciation

Electricity is pretty consumable

I’ve always thought the drummer from Leppard was below average