[leetcrew]

> Why are people still thinking that taxing high earners is an option? The world is ruled by rich people, why would they tax themselves? Doesn't make any sense. Democracy is nice, until all the choices you have, exhibit the same underlying core values that you disagree with.

for the most part, "high earners" are not rich people; they are the upper-middle class. the richest people make the vast majority of their income from investment returns, and are often able to avoid having it count as "income". the very rich are quite happy to have taxes increased on high salaries in exchange for maintaining the status quo re investments.

> Instead, what we need is Democracy 2.0, where the people vote on individual packages, not parties. Switzerland may be the only country where that works out quite well.

this much I can agree on. why do I have to choose between guns and abortion?