Tja

Times 4 years

So everybody should be a contractor? I have done both and I honestly appreciate the benefits of a salary without all the risks and overhead of contracting. Or founding and managing a cooperative.

I always wanted to ask this so might as well now, feel free to answer if you want: what are the means of production? In $cureent_year, that is.

We are not in 1870 Germany. We don't all work in huge factories owned by Rockefellers. I work in IT. My means of production is a laptop. I do own a few. I sell my labor to whoever needs IT services. Am I a capitalist or a communist? In the past I work for a big company and used their laptop. Was I being exploited?

The painter that is coming to fix my walls owns his ladder and spraygun. I assume he bought the paint with his own money. I don't know about the van, he might own it too. He sells his labor to me, who don't own anything of his. Is he a capitalist?

Well, it's the price of not being dependent on billionaires.

On the other hand, if the hundreds of thousands of subscribers go to a some publication (I've seen propublica recommended earlier in the comments, for instance) they will be able to pay a decent salary to a bunch of those journalists.

The can cancel as well and work somewhere else.

Fair, fair

None of those things are liked because of their color, tho ;)

If they don't live in Pennsylvania, Arizona or Nevada, they also don't count.

And the president is Hugo Chavez 🇵🇪

And garlic salt.

The 90% tax was on income, this is on wealth.

The seller doesn't pay sales tax (and sales tax doesn't apply to real estate transactions, usually it's a special real estate tax and it's much lower).