{"id":10523,"date":"2023-09-25T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T01:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2023-11-25T20:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T01:23:19","slug":"tax-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10523","title":{"rendered":"Tax the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xv55zj0 x1vvkbs x1rg5ohu xxymvpz\">\n<div class=\"x3nfvp2 x1n2onr6 xxymvpz xh8yej3\">\n<div class=\"xdl72j9 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli xh8yej3\">\n<div class=\"xmjcpbm x1tlxs6b x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x230xth x9f619 xzsf02u x1rg5ohu xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x193iq5w x1mzt3pk x1n2onr6 xeaf4i8 x13faqbe\">\n<div class=\"x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou\">\n<div class=\"x1lliihq xjkvuk6 x1iorvi4\">\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">I never really &#8220;got&#8221; the ideology of screwing over today-me on the off chance future-me started making bank. Forbes counted 735 billionaires in the US in 2023 &#8212; over 300 million people in the US. That means there&#8217;s a 0.000245% chance of someone being a billionaire.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The probability of any one person <em>becoming<\/em> the next multi-billionaire is, logically, lower than that (some billionaires start out in the 1%). Low enough that I don&#8217;t want to structure all of society around making billionaires&#8217; lives cherry just in case I ever become one.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I mean, me personally, I&#8217;d happily fork over a couple hundred mil in taxes if I was netting a billion a year because I know I&#8217;d be using a lot of publicly funded resources for this hypothetical business, and funding those resources seems practical. But, yeah, probably not something I&#8217;m ever gonna have to worry about.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x1rg5ohu xxymvpz x17z2i9w\">\n<div class=\"x1hy63sm x1hc1fzr xhva3ql\" aria-hidden=\"false\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never really &#8220;got&#8221; the ideology of screwing over today-me on the off chance future-me started making bank. Forbes counted 735 billionaires in the US in 2023 &#8212; over 300 million people in the US. That means there&#8217;s a 0.000245% chance of someone being a billionaire. The probability of any one person becoming the next &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[26,1693],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10524,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions\/10524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}