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Gary Jepson's avatar

Woody Guthrie Quote: " Just because I ain't got as much money as you got is a pretty good sign that you're crookeder than me. And it ain't to laugh about. It makes me do some pretty tall thinking how to get that money off of you and give it back to the folks that's broke. "

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Thom -- Reading even a brief overview summary of your early trajectory is enlightening, thought provoking, terrifying, humbling . . . and exhausting. Thanks.

Pugnacious, extreme, and true is often a good place to start negotiating.

Households are the most important, the most numerous, and the most fundamental corporate entities in our country, from one productive perspective.

I just want my household to be taxed like a corporation.

Revenue comes in, we deduct fair and reasonably expenses, and our overlapping communities can tax what's left. [ household revenue is not income . . . for starters . . . and someday I hope to understand how personal income, according to the Fed, just about equals GDP . . . mind bending ]

See ( .gov ) <https://apps.bea.gov/scb/2022/05-may/0522-gdp-economy.htm#personal-income> Also shows GDP, normalized, so like so many of these damn reports, the whole numbers are not reported, only changes!

Of course, if we really did tax households like corporations -- thanks SCOTUS! -- only rich people would pay much in taxes, while spending massively to change the definitions of 'fair' and 'reasonable,' for starters, no doubt.

If we pay a working family a dollar, a rich guy gets it almost immediately.

So rich guys should be spending almost all of their time working to get dollars to households.

That's not what I'm seeing, in the main, so it's up to us, I'm guessing.

best luck to US -- b.rad

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