How about we allow US Constitutional amendments to be submitted by the public and voted on by purely popular vote. Let's see what the people actually want.
Trump during a Friday campaign speech said that “Nikki Haley” was “in charge of security” at the Capitol on Jan. 6, repeating Haley’s name four times where he almost certainly meant to say Pelosi’s. Not only did Trump confuse Haley and Pelosi, he also repeated a claim that he offered to send 10,000 troops, which has been fully debunked by the Jan. 6 committee.
He’s demented. Has been for years. He’s a demented rapist, a convicted fraud, a traitor, and he can’t stop lying. Of course he’s leading the republiQans.
Widener is ranked #159 in US News and World Report. (For what those rankings are worth.) Her bio shows experience in:
"Alina has experience in many areas of litigation including, but not limited to, corporate litigation and formation, commercial real estate (transactional and litigation), family law, the financial services industry and construction-related matters."
If you were given a billion dollars and told that you could spend it at a rate of $1,000 a day, it would take you about 2,740 years before you ran out of money. That equates to $5,000 a day for more than 500 years or $100,000 every single day for 25 years.
My point is we don’t need billionaires in this world
For the average American, a retirement fund of $1 million is required to sustain such a lifestyle from age 67 (National Retirement Age) to age 77 (National Life Expectancy).
Elon Musk's reported net worth is $180 billion dollars. For purposes of this exercise, let's leave this multi-billionaire 20% of his hoarded wealth, which leaves us with a tidy $144 billion.
This one guy, if given a very conservative wealth tax, could pay for 144,000 people's retirements.
Is there any of it really left? It hasn't been that many years ago that a single-income family could easily afford a house, car(s), vacation(s), college for the kids, etc.
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