The problem with taxing the super rich is that their weath isn't in the form of taxable income, it's mostly in the form of stock, and doesn't become cash until it is sold. Selling stock, especially if the CEO is the selling lots of stock, causes the value of the stock to decrease, so they don't like to sell it at all. What billionaires do to pay for their day to day expenses is to take out loans, using their stock as collateral on that loan. No bank is going to deny a loan backed by Tesla stock, or space-x stock.. that's guaranteed interest for them with basically no risk. The value of the stock them increases over time, more than the interest payments do, and then they pay it back, coming out financially better than they were when they took out the loan. The only way that billionaires could really be taxed is if the government was to tax them on the value of all stock that is held at the start of the tax year, and not just when it is sold. Some countries do this, I don't think (?) the USA does.
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It's by design.. the same group of people think that tarriffs are paid by foreign companies. Keeping voters ignorant is a key part of their strategy. Remember that trump once said "I love the poorly educated"
Depends if you're rich and white, or not.
Showing 3.2 for me right now, so someone must be deleting the bad reviews, or they've got an bot army giving it 5 stars.
Perhaps some sort of delayed-retry would be a good idea.
Maybe rather than "lol"ing at people for not understanding something, you could explain the important differences ?
But are they ? I posted a comment a couple of days ago via lemmy.world on a 'remotely hosted' community, and then viewed the same post via its 'native' instance, and my comment never showed up, even days later.
From a process and safety point of view, it looks like everything happened exactly as expected. The fuel usage imbalance generated a EICAS message, they ran through the QRH for a fuel imbalance, which was to shut that engine down. At that point, they could no longer continue to their destination, as they had no engine redundancies left, so they diverted back to Auckland, and landed safely.
Unfortunate for the passengers, but it's exactly what the pilots should have done in that situation.
It's the MAGA way.. they base their self worth on how much the people they hate are suffering.