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points by vigilantpuma 6 hours ago | 0 comments
Again, it’s a bad tax. Judge this on the merits, not merely on the fact that it’s a wealth tax and therefore good prima facie.
[–] embedding-shape 6 hours ago
Ok, so it might need iterations. Lets implement it, then fix it once live? Nothing is ever set completely in stone.

Out of ~40 million people in California, the impact of this tax seems to be about ~250 individuals. If they were considering users of their products and services, wouldn't that amount of users compared to the entire user base, be considered almost a rounding error?

[–] vigilantpuma 2 hours ago
It’s a tax, not a casual game app.

The quality of argumentation here. “Wealth tax therefore good” “just pass it even though it’s shitty, who cares.”

How many bad laws are on the books and now it’s nearly impossible to claw them back?