San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, big businesses

Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by jelliclesfarm on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:07AM (#25005071)

No, we can’t do both.

Imagine you walk into a theatre thinking it’s going to be a Hitchcock movie. After the 12th minute, they start showing Groundhog Day.

They ask you to come back the next day.

You return. Again, after the 12th minute, Groundhog Day. Again, they ask you to come back the next day.

And they don’t return the money you paid for your ticket. Or a credit. You have to pay for a ticket again. Everyday.

Now. How often are you going to keep returning to someone who steals from you and knows you will return. Meanwhile, any theatre next street is playing the Hitchcock flick.

What would a reasonable rational person do?

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by digitaltrees on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:28AM (#25005174)

Your response doesn’t show that we can’t do both. We do have the resources and social science knowledge to accomplish both objectives.

I don’t really follow your theater analogy, perhaps you can provide an alternate argument so I, and others can understand why you feel that resources are scarce, limited, and the objectives are mutually exclusive.

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by jelliclesfarm on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:35AM (#25005205)

We don’t have ‘resources’. We have a mechanism for instituting punitive taxes on a minority just because they are wealthy for a spending plan that has no clear path to success.

And who is ‘we’? Peter and Paul want to tax Bob to hand over $$ to Jack and Jill.

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Re:San Francisco voters approve taxes on highly paid CEOs, b... by jelliclesfarm on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:33AM (#25005198)

1. Please define ‘both’

2. Please elaborate ‘..we can do both’

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