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As soon as we give up our over-sized personal income and pay more taxes we'll be able to have more public infrastructure. The issue seems to be people don't li

As soon as we give up our over-sized personal income and pay more taxes we'll be able to have more public infrastructure. The issue seems to be people don't like the idea of only keeping 50% (or less) of their income + making 50% less to begin with. Most people that work at big tech get their big salaries because the companies profit in data-mining ways that would be more regulated in Europe.

willio58 3y ago
I totally agree, I say TAX ME MORE. The thing is though, it's not even most higher-salaried tech workers that we need to tax heavier. We need to tax the rich. When I say the rich I don't mean people making 300k/yr. I mean people making a million or more per year. We need to massively increase the marginal tax rate at around $3 million to around 90%. This was how it was as recently as the 80's, and repealing those taxes has led to an increase in wealth inequality this country has never seen.
danhor 3y ago
While the US is investing less in transit than other countries, the projects themselves are silly expensive compared to other countries. For how little transit is used in the US, it's amazing how much (relative) funding there is. To get the US towards building much more transit (and other infrastructure) there are many hurdles, but one of the main ones is building useful things for non-obscene amounts of money.
- Xeoncross 3y ago
  yeah, that goes back to us paying people more than other countries. People in the US make a killing managing projects, working in the office, etc... not to mention the huge amounts the C-Suite as salary and bonuses for their leadership on these projects.
  - danhor 3y ago
    At least according to some, this isn't the (only) cause: https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/transitcon2023.pdf https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/t... People get paid similar to other countries, but the whole structure is much less productive. There are also many other issues.

willio58 3y ago

I totally agree, I say TAX ME MORE. The thing is though, it's not even most higher-salaried tech workers that we need to tax heavier. We need to tax the rich. When I say the rich I don't mean people making 300k/yr. I mean people making a million or more per year. We need to massively increase the marginal tax rate at around $3 million to around 90%. This was how it was as recently as the 80's, and repealing those taxes has led to an increase in wealth inequality this country has never seen.

danhor 3y ago

While the US is investing less in transit than other countries, the projects themselves are silly expensive compared to other countries. For how little transit is used in the US, it's amazing how much (relative) funding there is. To get the US towards building much more transit (and other infrastructure) there are many hurdles, but one of the main ones is building useful things for non-obscene amounts of money.

Xeoncross 3y ago
yeah, that goes back to us paying people more than other countries. People in the US make a killing managing projects, working in the office, etc... not to mention the huge amounts the C-Suite as salary and bonuses for their leadership on these projects.
- danhor 3y ago
  At least according to some, this isn't the (only) cause: https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/transitcon2023.pdf https://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/t... People get paid similar to other countries, but the whole structure is much less productive. There are also many other issues.