I don’t get why? As long as people are not cognitively impaired, why should they be prevented from working?
If anything, as science and medical breakthroughs come online, it might be feasible that people can work into their 90s and beyond.
This is all the wrong focus, but I expect nothing less than inter-generational hatred to be stoked by the corporate media to make sure people don’t have their eye on the ball…
If anything, as lifespan/healthspan gets extended, we’ll see even more people that are 80+ in Congress.
The gaslighting here - using the term “insurrectionists”. No, dimbulb donnie, those are the terrorists YOU pardoned.
When I see people like Curtis Yarvin, I sometimes wonder if we can thank things like Dr. Spock for not enough aggressive bullying of Gen X and younger…
I’m sure there are more than just the billionaires (and centimillionaires) into this.
This is like a redux of Ayn Rand’s “Going Galt” bullshit, and a lot of people adore her and her really shitty sci-fi and philosophy.
If you read The Sovereign Individual, you can tell they are trying to make a pitch to the temporarily embarrassed millionaires, too.
The fact that these monsters would even think of going after the victim’s wife tells you all you need to know about the conservative mind.
More crazy shit brought to you by the likes of Thiel, Curtis Yarvin and the authors of The Sovereign Individual.
Just put it in a torrent and copy to archive.org?
Stand up some .onion sites?
It’s also ironic that making $89 million a year is kind of in the low-end of things when it comes to money and influencing the country. Even if they were not taxed much, and assuming no growth, they’d have to save over ten years to hit a billion.
Kind of gives you perspective when you think we have billionaires and a whole lot of centimillionaires. To accrue a billion, you’d have to accrue 100 million for 10 years and save it all.
Something tells me that most people on OF make nothing like that, but yes.
Also, I’m pretty sure this line of work has a very limited timeline for viability, at least at those kinds of numbers. People doing this would do well to put this away for a rainy day…
“I didn’t vote for THIS!”
How did the guy that fed people bugs end up being so influential?
Oh right, I guess the idiot loudmouth with a stupid combover was given a game show and then used that to launch himself into the WH, too…
The dumbest fucking timeline. I just don’t get the appeal of Joe. He might come off as “authentic”, but he also comes off as completely uninformed…
Wait? Suspended? Why?
What did he do that was wrong?
If people had as many rights as a corporation, I guess people could “incorporate” in the Cayman Islands or whatever…
I would think the ones pulling down millions would be smart to buy a second home in a state with zero state income tax (if they don’t have one already), and set that as their primary residence.
This Fishback guy’s proposal seems rather short on details anyway and I’m not a lawyer or a tax accountant, but I’m sure there would be ways for the ultrarich OF stars to still spends lots of time in Florida and not pay some “sin tax” because some weird Republican guy is butthurt about OF’s existence…
If that 15% income tax is meant to be federal, I think Sophie Rain would be getting taxed at 37% instead.
I don’t know if the 50% “sin tax” would be something that could be used as a deduction on federal taxes or not.
In any case, this makes the point even more so…especially for someone pulling down 89 million a year. I’m sure not every OF star in Florida is making that kind of bank.
I’m talking about Sophie Rain in particular - who apparently makes several million per year (89 million last year).
It sounds like this dumb idea is proposed by Fishback, a guy currently polling at 3%. So it doesn’t seem likely to pass, but if it did, I would think someone making several million getting singled out by a conservative for extractive state taxes (and just for performative xtian misogynist bullshit), it would make a lot of sense to move.
Good luck, so many people won’t leave even still - “it’s where all the people are, I need to reach people, yadda yadda”.
It’s weird how the current administration is telling on themselves.
Why would anyone who is stating the law about illegal orders be something these guys need to “investigate”? Unless they plan on issuing illegal orders?
LOL, if you do this kind of thing online, the answer would be easy: move the fuck out of such a shitty state.
And yeah, I get it, you’d probably leave behind friends/family, but…if your state is clearly sending you a message that they don’t approve of you, maybe get out and deprive them of any money?
Again, I think people are focusing on the wrong thing.
JD Vance and Marco are “new blood”. So is Gaetz. That Nick Fuentes guy is very young. Before he was murdered, Charlie Kirk was very young as well.
I don’t want any of that trash running anything.