Munger is a Republican, but his crusade is far more about fighting gerrymandering than party preferences.
Interesting that we’re not hearing about him pouring his vast wealth into opposing the heinous gerrymandering in Texas and other red states.
“His crusade is far more about fighting gerrymandering than party preferences.”
Complete blatant outright utter lie. If he gave a tiny shit about gerrymandering he would ahve fought Texas, more than just “criticize” them. Sanewash the Nazis some more whydontcha.
Exactly. Not a dime spent in Texas and the dude has plenty of money to spread around. The outlet is Yahoo so you can’t expect them to actually report anything not owner class approved.
I was thinking about this recently, but it’s actually shocking that our country isn’t already far more gerrymandered than it is. Because there are very few laws against gerrymandering, and so, since the average politician has no conscience, there’s really nothing stopping them from gerrymandering as much as possible.
That’s the current rules we’re playing with.
To use a sports analogy, it’s like in basketball, everybody knows that fouling the winning team at the last minute can be a way to catch up, especially if the person being fouled is bad at free throws. So that’s why the losing team always starts fouling at the end of a close game, even though it seems like a sort of a cheap tactic.
But in the case of gerrymandering, it’s like everybody knows fouling is the way to win, and almost nobody is actually doing it. It’s hard to imagine.
And to continue the basketball analogy, if you wanted them to stop fouling at the end of the game, you could fix it by changing the rules for the next season. You can’t just rely on the goodwill of the teams to stop doing it. Similarly, we can fix gerrymandering through either federal laws or constitutional amendments.
I think you’re quite underestimating the extent of gerrymandering. The reason they haven’t gone all out prior is out of 2 core reasons;fear voters would vote against them if they do and fear the other party would retaliate with similar measures. Option one is obviously been found to not be an issue, and now that they think they can seize permanent power with it, option 2 is also starting to be ignored by Republicans --but the dems are following through with the ever present implicit threat
We need a 100% wealth tax on everything over $200,000,000.
We will give you a medal stating that you won capitalism and then it is time to move on to a different hobby.
It should be a multiple of minimum wage. Also we should have a maximum wage as a multiple of minimum wage. Tying them together will give the rich some incentive to raise the minimum wage
Try $10 million
Why 200mil specifically?
Because wealth over that value does little to improve your quality of life (actually far less than that, but this is a generous cap).
I wish we lived in a world where people were arguing where the 100% tax kicks in, if it’s at 100 mil or 200 mil, etc. If that was our most divisive issue we would all have 4-day workweeks, guaranteed universal basic income, and maybe even dental care we can afford.
Also depending on how you calculate that it’d basically be the amount a machine shop or small factory is worth.
Hopefully the rest is owned by the workers of that factory. Zero tax then.
US is a sham democracy, an oligarchy ruled by the rich much like banana republics. Citizens are nothing but subjects swaying to the whims of the rich.
For real, we outnumber them by a lot too and need to remember that
I’m in California and I’ve been receiving bullshit mail about this trying to convince me that the redistricting is bad for democracy as if every single Republican state in the country isn’t already trying to do this and doing it.
How long until news breaks exposing him as a pedophile?
They’re not Newsom’s plans, they’re the plans of low level state politicians in Cali who put the work in and made this happen.
Don’t let some shitbird transphobe take their credit.
If I’ve gotten a single one of those ads I’ve tuned it out. I do get a ton of pro-prop 50 ones though.
Let him waste his money. It’s a done deal.
