Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Why hasn't the media caught on to the fact that proposing to fund extremely expensive long-term projects with taxes that are actually intended to produce declining revenues year over year is fucking insane?

If we actually do this, it'll represent the greatest theft from our children and grandchildren in our nation's history. It's not eating the seed corn, it's setting the whole silo on fire to warm our own toes.

Even assuming you'll trap every millionaire + billionaire residing in the US with massive exit taxes, the next generation of founders will not come. If you're planning to feed yourself from whatever you catch in a box marked "Idiot Trap: Enter Here," you'll soon be very hungry

Yes but you will feed kids in the process.

Just think of all the meat we'll have when we murder the golden goose

Strawman argument. Lazy.

It's not an argument, it's a metaphor for the dynamics I've discussed above. "Think of all the money we'll have" is not a great rebuttal to the claim that trying to unsustainably capture value in the short term will cause long-term disaster.

Meh. Unsustainable is your belief, not a fact. Meanwhile, 30% of Americans aren’t able to bring up their children in a humane way. That’s a fact. So metaphors are fun but dangerous.