The Prof G Pod

"There Needs to Be a Reckoning" — Heather Cox Richardson

If you look at where the Democrats are right now, from those you would call the more moderate ones to the progressive ones, they still are extraordinarily centrist to the point that most of them are to the right of Dwight Eisenhower, who was a Republican, of course. And what I'm referring to especially there is with Eisenhower's upper tax bracket at 91 or 92% with his call for universal health care, with all these things that coming out of World War II were absolutely centrist positions.

The Prof G Pod

Billionaires AND Universal Healthcare? The Sweden Answer

You don't have to choose between billionaires and universal healthcare. You can have a society with both. You know, these societies have high tax rates and produce incredible companies that go on to make billions of dollars and trillion dollar market caps and they have billionaires. The two are not mutually exclusive in America.

Pivot

How Elon's OpenAI Lawsuit Backfired Spectacularly | Pivot

I think we now need alternative minimum taxes of 60 or 70% on anything over a billion dollars for an individual because these individuals are under the impression that they are not subject to the standards of Western society, decency or any or the law.

The Business of Tech

Power play: Qiulae Wong on R&D, AI, hi-tech skills and tax

tax us more because we need more capital to run our businesses, and it's been a stranglehold on that because of our obsession with property.

Prof G Conversations

Gary Stevenson: “Your Kids Will Be Poorer Than You” | Prof G Conversations

If you do not want everything to be owned by a tiny elite, you have to aggressively tax extremely high levels of wealth. Because otherwise, if you're Jeff Bezos, what is he worth? $300 billion, right? Even if he makes 5% a year, he's making $15 billion a year, right? And it's just going to grow, right? It's going to grow unbelievably quickly.

Prof G Conversations

Gary Stevenson: “Your Kids Will Be Poorer Than You” | Prof G Conversations

Do you want everything to be owned by the tiny elite or not? If you do not want everything to be owned by a tiny elite, you have to aggressively tax extremely high levels of wealth.

Freakonomics Radio

Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System (Update)

Nearly everything that politicians say about taxes is at least half a lie. They are also dishonest when it comes to the national debt.