I’ve always been in favour of tiered consumption taxes. Basic neccessities of life aren’t taxed. Sorta nice stuff gets taxed a bit. Uber lux stuff and harmful stuff gets taxed all the fucking way.
Example: bus pass? Free. Subcompact cheap EV? 20% tax. Lambo? 300% tax.
Rich fuckers have way too many ways of getting out of paying income tax. Tax the stuff instead so that you can’t live like a rich person without paying the kind of taxes rich people should be paying.
Lost Korea.
Lost Vietnam.
Lost Iraq.
Lost Afghanistan.
Is in the process of losing Iran.
The USA hasn’t won a war since 1945, despite spending more on their military than the whole rest of the world and being constantly at war the whole time and having the best tech by a long shot.
Losing that much with all those advantages isn’t “might”. It’s incompetence.
Why even bother mentioning the US in the headline? They’re irrelevant.
For all the Evangelicals swooning over your “Pro-Life” president: he ain’t.
Meanwhile at a Stellantis boadroom:
“Why are these Chinese cars selling so well? Maybe we can get out market share back with an 800-hp piece of shit rattlecan that has the build quality and comfort of a wet fart.”
US won’t even have a cultural legacy like France does. Hot dogs, Jersey Shore, and Las Vegas don’t hold a candle to Crème Brulée, Rénoir, et Montmartre.
Lost already. When half your country doesn’t believe in the basic process of science and the dominant political force has been doing everything it can for 50 years to kill education, you tend to lose the edge in innovation. Heck, even the research that does still happen in the US is more and more being conducted by immigrants.
The lead is gone, has been gone for a long time, and is not coming back.
Very true. They’ll be standing on the gallows arguing which part of their precious Constitution makes their own execution that is currently happening illegal.
Ladies and gentlemen, one of the most educated people in the USA.
Yes, there is no path to resolve the problem of the USA that does not go through all-out civil war. Half the country is completely convinced of an entirely fictional reality and are more than willing to die and to kill to defend it. They are well past the point that evidence of any kind can affect them.
The day will come when their god-emperor tells them to kill and die, and they will.
Well then I guess you had better get good instead of repeatedly shoving garbage into a touchscreen and calling it a feature.
Hopefully be more.*
Nah, that’s just so that Bubba can have a hobby that makes him feel like a big strong man instead of a little boy whose dad left him because he’s too weak and small.
You would think a country that worships firearms would have some half-decent marksmen. Fuckin’ casual LARPers.
My vote goes to “straining at stool”. It’s more on brand.
Yeah, there’s no way that monster actually wrote it.
That’s the spirit! It isn’t the bottom until it’s a smoking crater lined with the ashen remains of all the “”“self-made brilliant real estate investors”“”.
We absolutely should. Our manufacturing helped win WWII, and can help Ukraine kick Putin’s ass.
Part of the deal should be Ukrainian troops training Canadian troops how to effectively use the drones. They are definitely a game changing piece of war hardware that we need with such a violent, unhinged enemy nation on our borders.