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I have a suggestion, we should make billionaires pay……their fair share of taxes.
not that bs 1% or 2%, at least 50%
I prefer an income cap, 1 million a year, at a standard tax percentage, then all income above 1mil is taxed 100%. Capital gains are treated as income. Any profit is.
But trading value that has already been taxed is not counted as income. So selling a 10mil house for 11mil is only taxed 1mil, as the 10mil was already taxed as income.
Same for corps, but with a 10mil profit cap a year.
The low cap discourages businesses from merging into massive conglomerates that control too much of anything.
We don’t actually need national or international businesses.
Of course I also approve of making for-profits outright illegal. So the cap wouldn’t even be relevant for businesses anyway, as they’d all be public services, and any ‘profits’ they made a year would just be put towards more, or better services, or improved employee compensation packages, or subsidizing costs in the future until prices balance back out, or refunds (all depending on the business/industry).
It still weird me out that there are only something like 600 billionaires in the US. This seems like such a solvable problem.
We could easily solve that with just a single guillotine.
if we did one per minute, we are looking at about 10 hours of solid thwacks. give or take. im sure we could shave that down by a few seconds per, they are a physically weak people on average. so i imagine we could get it done in half the time if we shave it to 30 seconds per billionaire. and have them all lined up. ready to go.
thats an afternoon. about 5 hours at 30 seconds a pop.
I appreciate the Silcon Valley-esque efficiency calculation but honestly that’s not a super high requirement. 5 hours, 10 hours, a week, whatever. No need to speed run this thing. Honestly if we were good in a year I’d be thrilled.
We could really drag this out. Make a reality TV series. Merchandising rights. Lots of opportunities to make some money here…
Guillotine blades get dull. And they’re kind of heavy.
So to keep things moving I motion that we set up half a dozen of them. Each one would handle 100 people, which would still absolutely wreck the blade. But that’s a price I’m willing to pay.
That’s not really fair to the billionaires at the beginning of the line, who are probably going to be the most deserving.
Dulled guillotine blades for everyone!
Or, hear me out:
Woodchipper.
Can’t we just re-tool the orphan crushing machine? I mean, it’s right there.
At 5 minutes per execution, it could be done in just over 2 days. If you wanted to ensure that nobody missed any of the event and limited it to 8 hours per day, you could get it done in 1 week.
You could do it even faster, just assemble 6 guillotines. Then you could execute 72 per hour instead of 12. You’d then be done in 8 hours and 20 minutes.
Special holiday!
Dude, you are living in the past. Band saw and conveyor belt.
Hold on. Who’d build and own the band saw and conveyor belt?
No he’s planning the whole event. We need live music, Jigsaw (from Saw), and a revolving sushi bar.
Gotta have the sushi bar. Non-negotiable.
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