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amaebi ([personal profile] amaebi) wrote in [personal profile] elainegrey 2021-06-10 01:33 pm (UTC)

As a technical matter, it isn't particularly difficult to write tax legislation that should handle this.

As a pragmatic political possibility-- well, I wish more people seemed to be reading and talking about the article, which usefully incorporates not only data and methodology but socioeconomic context, because I think it might should motivate political pressure. Myself, I dislike being angry. It makes me literally sick. Fortunately, I mostly amn't angry, but that's a fruit of practice.* So I don't particularly want people to be angry. I do believe people who say that only anger motivates "people," though, and I guess I feel that if that's what it takes....

* Not true currently. As I commented on Susan Campbell's blog:
"After(ish) Trump and still in the pandemic, living in a universe with a currently human-generated curvature that deprives me (among many worse off) of traction and leverage to pry at that dismal drain of a trajectory is getting me down. So I'm trying to live through that, though maintaining volition and non-static momentum is difficult.

"Working on converting our small former horse property to an organic mini-farm, but being called on both in advance and in emergency to help my noble son to hockey stuff, and doing my (thankfully small) part of getting set to live work weeks in a pied-a-terre convenient for my husband's work and my sons hockey.

"And so depressed and angry and sad."

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