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Idiocy. If they want to tax high-income people, set an income tax. Why does an arbitrary subset of other people's income matter?

This pairs hilariously with Prop 22 making all Uber's low wage employees non-employees.

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They would then have to redefine income. many of these ceos are not paid salaries, they use more creative vehicles.

They mostly use stock grants and options, both of which are taxed as income on they day they vest. Are there other vehicles you’re referencing?

There may be a reasonable argument to be made concerning the difference between the two approaches, but you've portrayed yourself as unreceptive from word one.

It reads totally differently if the first word is simply removed. It's remarkable how influential first impressions are.

s/idiocy/ideology/

"ideology" needs to be rehabilitated as less pejorative — in our era of empiricism devolved into mindless statistics, the desire to fit everything into a coherent theoretical framework needs a better rep.

"Virtue signaling" is a phrase with no good connotation to corrode, and one I'd prefer for the critiwue I believe you are trying to make.

If I were trying to make a critique, sir, I'd be making it. I'm just urging another poster applying a more appropriate I-word that doesn't cast aspersions on intelligence, when the conflict is about a world view bundled with a set of values and policy prescriptions.

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