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.
This type of boycott would legitimately cause actual change. If this ding dong got blamed for fucking up college football in Florida he's 100% getting the boot.
"Under Section 108 of the Internal Revenue Code, he would have had a legal obligation to report [the loan] as taxable income and the tax alone would have been, probably $40,000 or $50,000. That's a third of his annual salary," Castro said on Friday. "And that's when I was like, 'There's no way he reported that because that'd be financially disastrous for
I’m waiting for the unmarked vans full of unmarked people to start kidnapping ordinary people off the street (again)— like what happened in his first 4 years.
Remember the George Floyd/BLM protests in Portland where that actually happened? It was a test for Trump to see what is legal and it was never challenged in court.
A huge one full of many many things that went unexamined because of the FLooD Of BuLlShiT.
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
—A psychological profile of Adolf Hitlers tactics, after his death
Sort of a weirdly written title (and article). Apparently she's saying that Johnson MIGHT lose his job if he allows the Ukraine aid package to pass, and that would be a worthy sacrifice if it means that the US will get back on track to stopping Putin's war.
The title almost made it seem that she's saying that he SHOULD lose his position over this. But no...
“Right and what I would say to that is, you know, he ought to understand that it is worth it if he has to lose his Speakership in order to make sure that freedom survives in order to make sure that the United States of America continues to play its its leadership role in the world,” Cheney responded.
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