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How dangerous is it to dump it in the river now?

Land ownership, for example, is highly concentrated with the aristocracy/gentry. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2019/...

> When it comes to growth, Britain’s politicians will the ends but not the means. They run scared of the homeowning elderly, who turn up to vote and make up a growing share of the …

> a new group who are there to just enrich themselves. The UK’s been ruled by a relatively small hereditary aristocracy for, what, 1,000 years? A self-interested political class is…

The problem is, one, that those vacant homes are not necessarily in places people live or want to live (unless we’re shipping homeless people off to empty homes), and two, that hom…

South Vietnam was already an independent nation…

> Hopefully, some security researchers will get their hands on it, de-anonymize the data set, and then regulators will burn the industry to the ground. Who does this benefit, thoug…

The only compelling reason is to give broader and cheaper access to past works. If you don’t find that compelling then I don’t know what to tell you. What’s the compelling argument…

Congress is the one that’s dramatically extended copyright length, not the courts.

There’s no counter-argument to make beyond my self-interest in consuming creative works at very low cost and with very few limitations outweighing your self-interest in profiting f…

The Soviet intelligence apparatus spent a good deal of time and effort post-1945 ensuring that pretty much every state in Eastern and Central Europe would be dominated by the local…

I don't see the point of the corporate tax at all unless people think the IRS would be incapable of auditing people that incorporate.

A carbon tax could easily be coupled with a dividend...

We would be better off with taxing the unimproved value of the land (possibly until the market price of the land itself is $0) and rolling back the barriers to building new housing…

I don't know - just thinking of construction, for example, we would probably have seen more innovation in that sector over the last century if every town and city in America didn't…

>I always give benefit of doubt where it's due, but Twitter has definitely something sinister going with their Indian Operations. If Indian companies goes abroad they are expected …

>Fighting the govt is rarely productive, but they probably know something to do this crazy in-your-face stuff. Depends on your definition of productive, I suppose.

Yes, there are tradeoffs anywhere - which means we should rationally assess what we're putting into education and whether at least some of those resources can be put to better use …

Tax dollars that go to universities for one reason or another are tax dollars that cannot be spent on healthcare - tax dollars that can't be collected from tax exempt institutions …

There are tradeoffs, though - the resources that are poured into higher education are resources that cannot be spent on other vital things.

What’s the actual cost/benefit here?

Yes - corporate income tax should be eliminated entirely - the revenue can be made up in other, less terrible ways. Corporate incomes taxes are a poor way to address inequality bec…

The government could tax shareholders, i.e. the people who receive a corporations profits to begin with.

Why tax a corporation's income at all when you can tax its shareholders income instead?

Capital gains taxes (paid by shareholders) are completely separate from corporate income taxes (paid by corporations). You're also forgetting (or ignoring) that the legal incidence…