They did a really good job on ads. Don’t look up how much they spent just on fooling the population.

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    6 days ago

    That’s great, but just because you happen to be informed & engaged doesn’t mean the people that aren’t are stupid.

    I’m in favor of a wealth tax as a corrective measure, which is how this prop was structured, but on as a broader recurring tax I am against it. If I was less informed on this prop or otherwise held a stronger “If it’s wrong to do it recurring then it’s wrong always” position, then I would have voted against it. It doesn’t take much effort to empathize with why people would be against new tax structures.

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      5 days ago

      Yeah, that seems like a strange argument yo me when you look at wages over time adjusted for ibflation among the wealth classes. There really shouldn’t be much of an argument.