average salary of a high school teacher in seattle is 90k plus you get summers off.. doesnt seem too bad..

I dont know too much but Jensen Huang seems like a good guy

I would imagine very rich people have extremely good lawyers though that can tell them very accurately if they will get off if it goes to trial.

The best lawyers in the world won't be able to give you any guarantees about how a jury will feel.

well ideally more power should be distributed amongst normal people

Wishing it could be so, flies in the face of everything we know about human nature, power dynamics, and game theory.

couldnt you have control shares that weren't worth money?

What about a law where you couldnt use over a million dollars (to exclude normal people) a year of any asset as collateral for a loan unless you paid capital gains on it at its current valuation?

You create a lot of other side effects that destroy a lot of valid activity and thus cause a large economic depressive effect, or you will start needing to provide a lot of other counterbalances that will be even worse or cost the government a lot more.

This has the finance equivalent of feeling like cookie banners will actually do anything.

Political power will advocate for it's power, you have to go one level higher and interact at that level, not on tax law tweaks.

To give an example of where this has gone wrong already, look at the entire interaction between startup stock, ISOs and AMT and how it creates a horrible trap for startup employees, but not for founders and investors who get a lot of very nice tax benefits like QSBS, no AMT, so on. Because startup employees are diffuse, usually have unstable employment and are usually younger, this hasn't been fixed to this day.

While other countries like Israel have this fixed in a very elegant way, where you can exercise without tax bombs and only actually have tax liability when you actually can and do practically realize or liquidate the stock gains.

If I pledge $10M in stock for a $2M loan, what's the taxable event? The full $10M valuation, or my $2M loan? What if the stock is in a company worth $40M, but the sale of $10M in stock causes it to be worth $5M afterwards and the private company's value is reassessed to $20M, after I got the loan and after my pledge?

American devs should support the hire act bill

25% isn't nearly high enough. Seems more like a government money grab than an effective tool.

Just a shake down. "Be a shame if your store windows were to break" Or like the Tylenol thing being a setup for hostile takeover

guns are a very efficient tool for murder or suicide. They absolutely will increase the number of deaths due to their effectiveness. Whether that's worth the societal price is up to the people.

This would be very helpful for American jobs.

Call your Congressional reps, ask them to cosponsor.

Still, I'll take it