Interesting Links for 15-03-2021
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andrewducker- What sequence of events led to the Met violence at the vigil?
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- Higher Taxes Don't Scare Millionaires Into Fleeing Their Homes After All (a 10% tax rise causes only 1% to move)
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- This is now my favourite programming story
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- A flexible and durable "electronic" fabric that can be used as a display
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- 'We're going to lose fast': U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack (and ended badly for the USA)
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- Ode to executive dysfunction
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- Cabinet Office and Foreign Office to move 500 jobs each to Scotland
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- My favourite Coronavirus tracker is one year old
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- 10 years in prison if you put someone at risk of being seriously annoyed - maybe this isn't a good law...
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- World's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies
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Date: 2021-03-15 02:11 pm (UTC)There were several vigils throughout the West Midlands and nothing like this happened at any of them.
Go figure as our USian cousins say.............
Higher Taxes Don't Scare Millionaires Into Fleeing Their Homes After All (a 10% tax rise causes only
Date: 2021-03-24 06:18 pm (UTC)The headline there is a mix of truth and exaggeration, mirroring the exaggeration that the other side traditionally puts forth.
I mean, this is usually presented as a binary: "raise taxes, and everyone will flee". That's obvious nonsense, as this article is pointing out. What matters is how much you raise taxes. Neither side wants to talk about nuance -- one usually tries to claim that any tax rise will destroy the world, the other usually tries to claim that you can tax arbitrarily high without hurting anything. Both are basically full of BS.
The real question is, where's the right balance point? It's dead-certain that you could raise taxes by a fair bit without causing grievous harm. It's also dead-certain that, past a certain point, it becomes counter-productive. The right thing to do is to study this as empirically as possible, and find a good middle ground, and I'm glad to see studies like this. If only there were more politicians paying attention...