@SizweLo Based on a study conducted by the USSR, it is required at least 20 LAND BASED anti ship missles (not the tooth pickers Mr Maduro has) to bring down a Nimitz class carrier. Also, the probability is 10% that would pass the defense. That would need 200 missles. Go figure!
The US was hours away from invading Venezuela, until the Venezuelans started casually patrolling their borders with Russian anti-ship missiles.
Then the Americans suddenly remembered there were “Christians” in Nigeria..
@TranSebast48312@WesternColumn@RobertMSterling my original post was not about unrealized gains. It's about mocking someone who is worth some $50 million gave $11.5 million to charity...
Jeff Bezos is worth $238 billion, even though Amazon has a $2.6 trillion market cap. In other words, he’s created $2.4 trillion of value for other shareholders—plus trillions more for employees, customers, suppliers, governments, and other stakeholders.
Jensen Huang is worth $164 billion, while NVIDIA’s market cap is $5 trillion. That’s $4.8 trillion of value for other people (not to mention the immeasurable value created for non-equity stakeholders).
Larry Page and Sergey Brin? $300 billion vs. $3.3 trillion. That’s $3 trillion of value for everyone else. And remember how bad search was before Google and how clunky email was before Gmail?
Mark Zuckerberg? $248 billion vs. $1.8 trillion.
The list goes on. There are hundreds more examples across technology, energy, medicine, manufacturing, and every other industry that keeps the American economy running and our society flourishing.
Billionaires don’t extract value from the rest of us. They create value FOR the rest of us, in exchange for just pennies on the dollar.
We should be grateful for every last one of them.
@Martyupnorth_2 In a debate among Founding Fathers, some suggest to push Northward, but most agree that “We should leave it so the losers can fall back to instead of having to deal with them here, as a country”. 250 years later, it’s still working as designed. You’re just born in the wrong palce
@TopDriverIndia@WesternColumn@RobertMSterling Dude, you’re not even in the US and you have no idea how stock trading works. If people have to pay tax on unrealized gains, there will be no stock market.
wrong analogy, I cannot sell off my kitchen if I need money or I can’t sell my garage if I need money. But I can sell stocks, how many ever & whenever I want.
But you missed the actual point- that his Tax rate was only 21% in a good year and zero in bad year. Most of my friends in the US pay 25% or more tax rates, and they are just middle class.
Billionaires, get lots of loopholes and deductions when end up paying a very low effective tax rate, which is not fair
@BraddrofliT Post all the fake stats you want, but for the rest of my life, I will never forgive the Democrats who shutdown the entire blue states’s economy just to bring Donald Trump down. Millions of businesses suffered, a lot of them never recovered, just for your fucking politics.
@WAJansak@GuntherEagleman Where are the home owners? We have to take our kids down the street for their own trick-or-treat. This likes blaming the robbery victims for getting robbed.
Where is the homeowner?
I may be old-fashioned, but the treat in trick-or-treating is not the candy; rather, it is the social interaction.
Leaving a bowl of candy on your porch is cold and impersonal.
I remember the joy of ringing the doorbell and having the homeowner “Ooo and Ahh” over my costume. The smiles and laughter of meeting neighbors and saying, “please” and “thank you.”
Ahh, that was the 1960s and 1970s.
This is Canada's top military general.
She is crying while apologizing for systemic racism and discrimination in their forces.
A deeply unserious country.
This is how Western civilization dies.
@Monocle_cloud@JGBartholomew@AdameMedia@sallycopper I’m not here to change your world view. I’m just here to point out your hypocrisy.
You’re absolutely right. I don’t know exactly which passport you carry, but it must be one of the evil imperialist countries. Because you’d have never jumped off the boat for the USSR or China.
During their brutal assault on Vietnam, the U.S. military dumped 76 million litres of toxic chemicals across Vietnam, destroying the environment and lives alike
The US kiIIed over two million civilians in Vietnam
No US Politician or General faced justice for these crimes
@Monocle_cloud@JGBartholomew@AdameMedia@sallycopper If you did actually live through all that and you’re still somehow in favor of communism, your hypocrisy is off the fucking chart.
Let’s do this. You give up your imperialist passport, and I’ll buy you a ticket back so you can further your imagination. Would you do that?
@Monocle_cloud@JGBartholomew@AdameMedia@sallycopper BTW, you lived what? Did you live with millions of South Vietnamese in the cities who were forcefully sent to undeveloped rural area where they had to farm and turn all of their crops to the government, while having to stand in the line since 2AM to receive their weekly rations?
Like or not, China has lifted more than 100 million people out of poverty in the past 12 years.
They did it by building vast infrastructure, affordable homes, and access to education and equality of opportunity
Not through War, hegemony and division.