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Jesus says to tie a millstone around their neck and drown them.
Meanwhile Reddit atheists advocate to free serial rapists and murderers if they're black because to punish them is "racism."
I agree that the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax. My reason for it is different: it's about clarifying who pays.
Right now you have tens of millions of people paying painful taxes, and they're under the impression that their taxes make a difference. They assume that the government budget is funded by taxpayers exactly like them, they've been told that the rich aren't paying their fair share, and so forth.
The reality is different: the income taxes paid by these people are negligible (~1.6% of total federal tax revenue). It doesn't really matter. But it has an enormous political impact: they believe that by paying these dollars, they are core contributors, and the outrage press has them believe they're getting short-changed for their contributions. The reality is the opposite, they are net beneficiaries by a long shot.
As usual, there is a huge difference between "almost zero" and "zero" -- taking their contributions down to zero would make it abundantly clear that they are net beneficiaries, pure recipients, not payers. The value that this provides in terms of restoring some sanity to political discourse will probably outweigh the equivalent loss of tax revenue.
Jeff Bezos: "Any corporate or Amazon CFO could find 3% (to cut) in Federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon" to fund zero taxes for bottom half/poor. "This is a skills issue" calling out administration and management incompetence in Federal government and local NYC city school system (He is also calling for higher wages for teachers while cutting outlandish admin budget)
its pretty clear now that the big boys on HL are shorting the IPOP listings because these tickers listing are the equity equivalent to the high FDV low float token playbook that we saw run by binance insiders and the like over the last several years