> I'm thinking of "machine-pickable" as the natural next step for growers to aim for.
> Is this already being done?
This is, indeed, already something that is done. As I understand it, for tomatoes it's typically for canning varieties, but they're called determinate cultivars[1]. Even with those, I know in processing you still have to discard the occasional fruit that isn't ripe.
I imagine this kind of technological solution would also be more useful when picking tomatoes for use as the fresh fruit.
Indeed. As others have noted, that would be when the attempted assassination of Trump was, shortly followed by Elon endorsing him and then forming his PAC [1]. I'd expect such activities to raise interest in his activities and statements, so this entire thing seems to be a staggering miss at asking very basic questions before leaping to conclusions.
If one believes it’s a big problem, it seems to me there’s an easy solution that doesn’t disrupt anything else. If you use a stock as collateral like that, it’s a taxable event that steps the basis of the stock by the amount of the loan. No unnecessary taxation of assets at rest, no double taxation later because of the step up in basis, and you close the loophole if you view it as such.
Yeah, that is what I was trying to convey with regards to the interest deduction being capped, not that the deduction just stopped. I think I was a bit muddled with my second point as I was trying to suggest by the time you are at a very high income level, your deductions are primarily made of other things, because the mortgage interest deductions can only be so large. That's indeed what the underlying data from the IRS shows as you go up in income past $500k a year comparing column 91 (total home mortgage interest deducted by itemized filers) to column 61 (total itemized deductions) in the ridiculously massive table that the the Tax Policy Center summarizes from that starts on page 137: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1304.pdf
The Canadian government is paying for it in the sense that they're advancing the US federal government and Michigan the money that will be collected from tolls for using the new bridge. Canada will be paid back, as everyone agreed in the first place. Whatever I think of Moroun, he had very little to do with the necessity of doing that when this bridge was being proposed and planned in the mid 2010s, as Michigan had serious budget problems from the 2008 Great Recession.
> Is this already being done?
This is, indeed, already something that is done. As I understand it, for tomatoes it's typically for canning varieties, but they're called determinate cultivars[1]. Even with those, I know in processing you still have to discard the occasional fruit that isn't ripe.
I imagine this kind of technological solution would also be more useful when picking tomatoes for use as the fresh fruit.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinate_cultivar