Kacarott

Don't be silly, you'll obviously have your hands full defending your spleen from chipmunks, no time to dial 911

Either watch the movie OR read the book. Never both. Both just leads to disappointment at the cost of your time.

That's usually when I do my crying anyway

We better destroy it just to be safe

Obviously tax law would have to be more nuanced, if you only own a single house then you can't be expected to sell it just to pay the tax on it, but the tax could accumulate for when/if you do sell it. But someone who owns hundreds of properties which increase in value, could be expected to sell some to pay the tax. The point is to affect people who hide their actual income from taxes like this, just like Bezos does.

Because it is also a messed up way to tax people, to only require people who can't afford these tax evasion strategies to pay income tax.

You complain about bullshit manipulation, then spread your own blatant disinformation to try support the billionaires??

The "real tax rate" isnt based on a stable net worth, it is based on the increase in net worth over X years (ie. Income), compared against the amount of tax paid over the X years.

If someones house increased in value at a rate of $1M per year, then they absolutely should be paying income tax on that $1M every year. Once it stops increasing in value, then it would no longer be contributing to income, and therefore would not be subject to income tax. It is pretty simple.

If it could be repeated 49 times, that might start to add up a little

You've just given new meaning to the Bruno Mars song

Even Haskell is higher on the list than Go, which surprises me a lot

Maybe I misunderstood it then, it seemed like they were presenting this as a defence for people who cheat, like "don't blame them, blame the society which ultimately causes it".

Edit: reading again, it very clearly says "... Instead of vilifying it [infidelity]..." So they really are trying to say "stop getting upset about it"

Your exact same argument could be made for murder, for sex crimes, for hate crimes, etc. Just because some people might occasionally want to commit these acts, does not make them okay, because they hurt people.

Open relationships already exist. There is no limit on what kind of relationship you can define with your partner, so there is absolutely no "necessity of lying and cheating". That is just an excuse for people who don't give a shit about hurting people.

The connection is simply the hypocrisy of republicans who yell about AOC being underqualified, while being totally ok with someone actually completely unqualified.