Myth: If we tax billionaires they won't create jobs.
Fact: Last year, billionaires got the largest tax break in history. Now, they are literally planning to replace every worker in America with a robot or AI.
Trickle down economics is a scam. Tax billionaires out of existence.
In no world where billionaires exist should a scientist have to ask the general public to crowdfund the potential breakthrough cure for pancreatic cancer. And that’s why billionaires should not exist.
i could read a novel (makes me a better writer, a more empathetic person, an informed cultural citizen) or i could watch tiktok (makes my brain turn to oatmeal) hmmmmm decisions, decisions
Why don’t women do *insert job that was legally barred to them until the 1970s, requires early and highly specific gate-kept training, and is dominated by a famously misogynistic masculine culture rife with sexual harassment and abuse*
The right to a jury trial in the most fundamental criminal cases is a guarantee of equal justice for every one of us. If a government cuts that right instead of funding the system, it isn’t reform it’s endangering the freedom of us all.
Just came across this line: “Every time you open a book and read, a tree smiles, knowing there's life after death.” I’ll be thinking about this line forever now.