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_Some_ millionaires call for...

• amelius 5y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
  • captainredbeard 5y ago
    Perhaps in a different context. In this one, I am pointing out that the headline implies that millionaires, as a collective group, are pushing for taxing billionaires. By adding "some", it points out the absurdity of the title. If I were talking about a group of people in a "No True Scotsman" sense, then yes, "some" would be a weasel word. Thanks for learning!
• EarlKing 5y ago
  ...a wealth transfer to Moderna. There. Saved everyone a read.
  • V-eHGsd_ 5y ago
    wait, is "covid is a ploy to transfer wealth to the companies providing a vaccine against the greatest global pandemic in a century" an actual anti-vax talking point? I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
    • EarlKing 5y ago
      Vaccines do not pay for themselves. The proposed tax is literally about paying for the vaccines. So you're literally talking about giving out corporate welfare. Want to silence this talking point? Abandon the effort to tax people to pay for the vaccine and obtain them purely at-cost so Moderna, et al. are unable to use "the greatest global pandemic in a century" to make a mint. I mean, if this is really about getting the vaccine out then you should have no problem backing a proposal like that... RIGHT?