Make it illegal. And state lotteries while we’re about it.

Redundant? Isn't a subset always < the set its subsidiary to?

And it grows with your assets and work-free property income, and your retirement benefits.

Why do the rich have so much political power?

Because they’re rich.

How could we possibly address that problem?

Ah. Cuz I just used .8 I didn’t catch that. Obvious.

So AIDS program ($6B) was 6% of SNAP ($100B).

6% of SNAP's 1.3% of budget = .08% of budget for the AIDS program, not .9% ???

About $6,000 per farm.

The very existence of that whole controversy demonstrates why we need a straightforward universal income (or my preferred term: Common Wealth Dividend). With highly progressive tax clawback from well-off people.

Means-test the rich, not the poor. (We already do, every year on tax returns.)

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Nondenominational defender of powerful scammers and crooks.

K. Didn't think ppl would be so put off by a bout of laziness. I have followed up the summarized refs and also researched elsewhere (as I have in the past). But wasn't inclined to assemble my current and past reading into a lengthy history here. Any thoughts on the meat of the matter?

Well, okay, but his famous three-word dictum is…useless. It's like saying "payments are poverty" or similar such nonsense.

All property income, received for simply owning stuff, is unearned. So, undeserved? Recipients generally don't lie to get it, but still: Macro-level fraud?

Certainly at least a good argument for taxing property income at a much higher rate than earned labor compensation. Goddamit all to hell.

Talk to you later. Cheers.

Already answered that Q: lazy.

I'll just say that W unequivocally shattered the central tenet of 20th C international order/rule of law, w Iraq II. Just one (big) example of many. Even US economic/corporate imperialism has a very big army behind it, that its prepared to use.

Not making any argument, just highlighting a long-term and surprising historical reality that many aren't aware of.