Rubidium (@rhubidium.bsky.social) reply parent
SS is already one of our most progressive taxes and also only captures wages. Corporations and actually-rich people have made sure taxes on wages make up an ever larger % of total tax collections, while they make huge loopholes for their income - why lean into that further with more taxes on wages?
Rubidium (@rhubidium.bsky.social) reply parent
No mention of Oregon ballot measure 110?
Rubidium (@rhubidium.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but the original author's intended simile was that only an idiot would hire that captain after the events on the Titanic, that is, after the captain died.
Rubidium (@rhubidium.bsky.social) reply parent
It's also a stupid sentence because the reason to not hire the captain of the Titanic is that the ship sank, but by that time the captain was dead anyway.