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“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
— C.S. Lewis
David Friedberg: California’s “Billionaire Tax” is a Trojan Horse to Go After the Middle Class's Private Assets
@friedberg:
“The reason they're calling it a billionaire tax is to make it easier for people to vote for it, and sign up to this entirely new tax system that they're proposing to put on all Americans at some point, and for the first time ever degrading our private property rights.”
“Forget about how much wealth you have, forget about how rich you are, forget about the term billionaire, millionaire, whatever it is.”
“We're creating, or proposing the creation, of a new tax system that allows the government for the first time ever to come in and audit everything you own.”
“All the jewelry your grandma gave you, the value of all the couches in your house, the value of your car, the value of all your stocks and bonds, and the government can come in, and for the first time, look through the veil into your personal property.”
“And say, ‘Here's how much all this stuff is worth. I'm charging you a percentage of that. That's what I need to get paid.’ And it doesn't matter that it starts with billionaires. What matters is that we're giving the government the right to look into our private property and take a percentage of it every year.”
“The total net worth of billionaires in the US is $8 trillion.”
“The net worth of the US, the middle class, and everyone else is $170 trillion, compared to $8 trillion of the billionaires.”
@chamath:
“They need a way to open the door so that they can go after the real honey pot.”
“The real honeypot is not 200 people.”
@friedberg:
“Just so everyone understands the real goal of this is not to tax billionaires, because there are other ways to tax billionaires.”
“Charge them a capital gains tax if they borrow against their assets that they haven't paid capital gains tax on. Very simple, that can resolve this.”
“Another thing you can do, you can raise the capital gains tax rate. Sounds unpopular. I don't agree with that, but that's another way to deal with this, which is to take the capital gains tax rate from 20% to 30%. You could do that.”
“The real goal of this is to create, for the first time in American history, a private property asset seizure tax. Because they're going after the $170 trillion, not the $8 trillion that the billionaires have.”
"I'm not even arguing for another conference right now, I'm just arguing against this narrative that the SEC is a gauntlet, that it has to be rewarded, and that it has to be given the benefit of the doubt."
@joelklatt says the SEC "gauntlet" narrative "needs to die." Thoughts?
Agree 100%
In fact, in the CFP alone, over the last 3 years, the SEC is 3-8 in CFP games (excluding SECvsSEC games)
Their 3 wins?
1) Tulane #20 final CFP rank
2) Clemson #16 final CFP rank
3) ASU #12 final CFP rank (very controversial win TBH)
10 CFP berths over 3 yrs & those are the only “pelts on the wall?” 🤦♂️
(Yeah yeah yeah… I know my team is in the Big12 and can’t claim any “pelts” yet… but being squeezed out of any CFP at-large spots year after year doesn’t allow many chances in the first place)
Let’s recap the SEC’s performance in this playoff:
- Gifted nearly half the field
- 1 win over non-SEC teams (shoutout Tulane)
- 1 semi-final appearance
- 0 wins over non-SEC P4 teams
- 0 representation in the final
- 1 incomplete threat by @finebaum to leave the country
“It’ll be called college football. The games will be primarily on Saturdays, so the sport can be properly observed when most people are off work that day and the next.”
“Even the semifinals and championship, sir?”
“Of course not! The semifinals will be Thursday and Friday, while the championship will be on a Monday.”
None of it matters. They give you rankings for weeks. Then make up their decision based on nothing. Then trot out Kirk Herbstreit to gaslight you into why it makes sense.
It’s the same garbage whether it’s 2 or 4 or 12.
I’m actually going to enjoy the pain of the fan base that gets left out of the CFP. There are forces making these decisions that actually don’t LOVE college fb. And until y’all hold them to account, I want the pain to be visceral and you and your fav team to scream into the void.