There's 0 real economists who hold anything close to these views. What a stupid take. Before you downvote, I ask that you find a single source that contradicts my claim. Since all liberal economics is like that, it should be easy, right?

Before the civil war, one senator almost caned another to death in the senate, and the assailant was fined ~10 000 dollars and continued serving as a senator.

The politics of the 21st century is the most civil it has been in human history.

Where does it say that? Neither the article or his wikipedia page mention anything about that.

What?

Eh, it's not surprising that people who spend money on the upkeep of a thing will eventually also want to get revenue out of the thing. If she doesn't like it she can host her own version of reddit and pay the server fees for everyone.

Ok, and what would you do instead? How would you keep a forum up and running and able to sustain itself? To me, pointing out that things are bad and could be better is an extremely obvious observation. The interesting question is, how do you make it better?

Ok, so what percentage of income do the various income brackets pay?

The "line diagraph" represents real physical things that you can eat or sleep in or wear.

False, the bottom 90% paid about 25% of income taxes (in the US at least). https://taxfoundation.org/...