Why do you think I should pay crazy property tax values on the Sunnyvale house I paid $250,000 for in 1988 just because some nut paid $2,000,000 for the identical house next door to mine last year? Why do you want to see my pushed out of my home with a $45,000/year property tax bill? You are pure evil, plain and simple.
The Swiss, while very progressive, live in a country where most people pay taxes. So the voters, who know where money comes from, soundly rejected this.
This may have a better chance of succeeding in the United States, where only 5% of people effectively pay any Federal Income Tax. After all, 95% of the population would love more "free money."
Everyone in Tel Aviv uses them--ordinary people use them to get to work. They make a lot of sense, especially in places with good weather and bike lanes (though there are many tricky places to ride bikes in Tel Aviv too because of the traffic and motorcycles!)
Nearly everyone who matters has left reddit for voat once they started disallowing posts on health and fitness. (They didn't want to "offend" people who like to promote gluttony.)
Huh? How did you get from cheating at a mid-western school to bashing the "1%" at Harvard? All you need are the Koch Brothers and you could post this on the Daily Kos!
I use either the built-in Mac whole disk encryption or the built-in Windows whole disk encryption. I'm shocked, shocked when ever I read about an unencrypted laptop that has gone missing.