Equal proportion is not the same as fair. It's a matter of scale. Low, middle, and even upper middle class people will actually feel the impact of, say, a 2% increase in taxes. Someone making more than a million dollars a year will not. It'll be a simple blip on a balance sheet and their quality of life will not be affected in any way.
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Yep lol, and even if that weren't true it isn't like Nketiah will be the surefire, instant panacea to our goalscoring woes.
I had to stop scrolling Facebook this week because of all the obvious fake quotes about which arsenal player Patrick Vieira is calling shit, and all the fucking Arteta out posts too. There are people who I assume are lying that say Arteta needs to go because Jesus is starting over Nketiah
I love this. I love when sport can be a medium for positive change in the world.
The overemphasis on bad guy is just exaggerating the way we already place emphasis on the two different meanings of the phrase.
At least in my accent, I place slight emphasis on bad if I'm talking about an "enemy", whereas the emphasis falls on guy if I'm making a character judgement of a person.
I don't know if I'm making any sense at all, but I think that's what they're going for.
Super insightful read from Billy as usual. Something that really surprised me that might've changed my mind a bit about Raya: he is claiming crosses 3x as often as Ramsdale. This was something I thought he was doing poorly from, and was hurting us as a result but I didn't realise it was just my nostalgia goggles talking.
Also I think something underplayed in this article is set pieces. We all sort of know, and Billy talks to it here, that Arteta's big MO is minimising variance in the game in the team's favour. Yes, our open play goals have been lacking, but you don't need to break down a low block from a set piece. If we scored 8 goals every game from corners and had 0 open play goals all season, you would be stupid to bemoan the lack of open play goals.
So yes, our finishing has been woeful, but the amount of corners in our last few games that have hit the first defender instead of our players has been as bad, if not worse.
So many excellent strikers that just don't suit possession football. Sometimes I do bemoan the fact that we aren't one of those pacy, exciting teams. This season especially, watching us get low-blocked in every single game, it's killing me.
Very lucky not to be sent off.
The commentary on the clip I watched was forgiving him too, saying the ball boy should have thrown to ball to him. It's irrelevant imo - the kid is a kid, and probably getting encouraged by the Bournemouth fans to slow the play. Bernd is a grown ass man and can keep his hands off the kid.
Holy shit - has anyone seen Leno's push on the ballboy in their game against Bournemouth?? Always thought this guy was class but things keep coming out that really change my mind.
Time for me to start job hunting. Maybe I could be Arsenal's new striker? You know what they say, fake it til you make it...
The level this season has been insane
I think there are two factors that make it make sense to me.
People who make oodles of money, that these taxes actually impact, generally don't make that money by being any more productive than the rest of us. They won the birth lottery, or found the right way to exploit other people's labour, or created artificial demand, and so on and so forth. So, they don't really "deserve" that money. I personally agree with this, but I don't think it's a great argument in favour of higher wealth taxes because it's a pretty subjective take.
The purpose of tax is to allow us to collectively allocate wealth to improve society as a whole. We might not all agree on how that should be allocated - some people think we should spend more on health or the military or education or social welfare - but tax is a tool that we (as a culture) have decided is a good way to make sure that we make progress in some shared direction. It's not wrong to think that tax is wrong, but I personally believe that if we didn't have that system, the world would go nowhere because everyone would only spend in their personal interests. Cynical, sure, but it is what it is.
With this in mind I think it makes a bit more sense. Increasing the proportion of tax paid by the 0.1% of people who have the most only marginally affects those people, but the amount of money raised which can be used on common interests has the possibility of doing far more good, for far more people. That money has the potential to be more productive if it wasn't tied up in bonds, or gold, or Bitcoin, or etc.
Many/most western countries already use progressive tax brackets. Wealth taxes, to me, are just adjusting those to "catch up" with the modern definition of wealthy.