Twigs and branches

In economics in 2 lessons top marginal tax rates over 60% are discussed. I don’t believe I would change my work hours if marginal taxes rose, so anecdotally the analysis is plausible.

Paul Keating describes high rates (50%) as “too punitive” (https://www.afr.com/politics/paul-keating-slams-labors-tax-gouge-20170512-gw35pr). What makes a tax rate too punitive?

How does this relate to income tests on social security, which are also often at 50%? Do these discourage participation and block paths out of poverty. Is this concern unfounded? I have seen no data. If participation is one of the P’s that create growth surely this matters, but my googling just got other things (ATO income tests levels, and information on the idea of participation income).

If I stopped using tricks such as maxing out superannuation contributions, in a good year I could hit the maximum income tax bracket. I’m pretty comfortable. I rent 30 square meters in an Australian capital and own a 17 year old car, but I do think the people with several houses and several sports cars could chip in a little more. Taxation seems geared towards letting the very rich off easy. Especially if they are bringing in a few hundred thousand a year in capital gains.

@nastywoman, ‘Die Juden sind schuld an Covid’

Reminds me of an old joke.
— Shlomo, do you know who Mao Zedong was?
— You don’t say, Abram! Was he, really?!!

Nastywoman @4 “So – are there finally some helpful answer from this… this ‘esteemed forum’?”

Realistic but not really helpful…
1) Wait 40yrs for zeitgeist to change neo-n****’s, hopefully,
2) move 
3) don’t ask ddgo or the esteemed google for help

Re 2, proof the zeitgeist does change – in time;
(see talk page link below)
“Bimbo – Jim Reeves”

Teach them to bake. Sounds about as good an idea as re-education or esteemed intellegences as a shield or change agent. 

Esteemed intelligence oroto reply.

Wandering strassen late one night near too many Gaststätten.

Gurke yells at Nastywoman & friends: 
“What is this bimbo doing with you”

(Esteemed intelligence nastywoman replies)
EI-NW: Well Gurke “The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man.[2]”

EI-NW: Yet due to embedded power, fake news & culture wars “Bimbo is a slang term for a conventionally attractive, sexualized, naive, and unintelligent woman,[1] especially one of Latino descent.”

Gurke replies: ” The Jews are to blame for Covid”.

To which EI-NW replies:
“Das ist das Leben, das ist der Krieg, das ist die Kartoffel, Gurke”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bimbo#In_German

Nastywoman, in answer to your q’s @72 on “not crt” thread;

“So, what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out.”
Can you tell US – KT2?
PLEASE?!”

No pressure then. Short answer dodge – I too was awaiting an answer from an esteemed intelligence. And I posted a US general asking the same question. That is a problem – a general and West Point are still asking.

So to ask a specific q related to the General who wants to know, as you, and I also ask “what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?” A worthy question yet it needs another question. the initial conditions and dynamics. 

Another question may be;.
1a) “why are those in charge of the military in the US seemingly unable to know the initial conditions and what caused insurectionists tried it on at the Capitol, and 
b) why they need more information, tools and knowledge to know their own people”.

I too await esteemed intelligence to answer those questions. In the meantime I try to be nice.

Re above @4 “So – are there finally some helpful answer from this… this ‘esteemed forum’?”

Realistic but not really helpful…
1) Wait 40yrs for zeitgeist to change neo-n****’s, hopefully,
2) move  (holiday heaven, permanent hell)
3) don’t ask ddgo or the esteemed google for help

Re 1, proof the zeitgeist does change – in time;
“Bimbo – Jim Reeves”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bimbo#In_German

Maybe each them to bake? Sounds about as good an idea as re-education or esteemed intellegences as a shield or change agent. 

Esteemed intellegences made a play as a shield & change agent for in street abuse. The gherkins haven’t seen it. That is why baking bread may be a better way to allow a space for gherkins to change beliefs.

Wandering strassen late one night near too many Gaststätten.

Gurke yells at Nastywoman & friends: 
“What is this bimbo doing with you”

(Esteemed intelligence nastywoman replies)
EI-NW: Well Gurke “The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man.[2]”

EI-NW: “Yet due to embedded power, fake news & culture wars “Bimbo is a slang term for a conventionally attractive, sexualized, naive, and unintelligent woman,[1] especially one of Latino descent.”

Gurke replies: ” The Jews are to blame for Covid”.

To which EI-NW replies:
“Das ist das Leben, das ist der Krieg, das ist die Kartoffel, Gurke. Ich backe sehr schönes Brot. Möchten Sie lernen?

I understand my poor writing skill (relative to esteemed intellegence) and flippant remarks may be taken as derisive.  They are not meant to be. On the “not crt” thread serveral comments were beyond the pale imo. I could not not use my esteemed intelligence to further inform them. Others tried. So baking and breaking bread over a story by a fire, being nice and open in a dialogue, not debate or discussion, may achieve belief change quicker than esteemed intelligence.

The esteemed intelligence which made the wiki page on Bimbo I fear, won’t communicate to them why they yell insults at you in the street, nor why the Capitol was stormed. 

My teenager has just discovered people yell vile insults at certain people in weird places. If you or any esteemed intelligence here may enlighten me as to why it still is that way in the 21c, and what to do about it, I am all ears. Back to baking. And nice-ing