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kpsnow··on America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%
In 1980 the top tax bracket was 70%. By 1988 it had been lowered to 28%.
kpsnow··on USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
So aspergers is a get out of jail free card?
kpsnow··on Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021
Ok.. I guess we are dropping JIRA
kpsnow··on Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial
I don’t have a very good grasp of economics, but can anyone explain why it makes sense to give someone $1000 to do nothing when you can pay them $1000 to do something productive, like build a road? Ideas like negative income tax, government supplemented minimum wages, or increasing EITC makes more sense to me.
kpsnow··on Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public
I’ve always found it hard to believe a super advanced alien species keeps crashing their space planes.