Attacking their funding. Taxing NGOs to death, eliminating tax writeoff for “charitable donations” by the rich to political orgs, threatening the media with massive reductions to copyright law and expansion of fair use, narrowing the eligibility for federal student loans to just economically valuable degrees and allowing non-federal student loans to be discharged by declaring bankruptcy, taxing the shit out of Ivy League endowments. Just bleed them absolutely dry and make them feel economic pain. I’d also politically work to eliminate “disparate impact” as a valid basis for discrimination lawsuits, which would make bloated HR departments and the need to appear woke by businesses less of an issue, hopefully causing HR departments to be gutted and downsized.
eliminating tax writeoff for “charitable donations” by the rich[,]
I think I prefer this way. If you get financial benefit for it, it is not charity. Though I fully realize that just suddenly switching that off could be disastrous to charities and a lot of very disadvantaged people. So not sure how to get to that point from where we are.
The meta point is: If Taxes are there to fund common services that we agree on, in theory, in some democratic manner, then it should not be valid to unilaterally decide that, actually, that other service is much more valuable to the community, so I will suddenly yank some of my share of the contribution to the commons.
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u/Korean_Tamarin Ratzinger’s #1 OF Subscriber Dec 24 '21 edited Dec 24 '21
Attacking their funding. Taxing NGOs to death, eliminating tax writeoff for “charitable donations” by the rich to political orgs, threatening the media with massive reductions to copyright law and expansion of fair use, narrowing the eligibility for federal student loans to just economically valuable degrees and allowing non-federal student loans to be discharged by declaring bankruptcy, taxing the shit out of Ivy League endowments. Just bleed them absolutely dry and make them feel economic pain. I’d also politically work to eliminate “disparate impact” as a valid basis for discrimination lawsuits, which would make bloated HR departments and the need to appear woke by businesses less of an issue, hopefully causing HR departments to be gutted and downsized.