Do point out the exaggeration.

Basically, you want to shut your eyes and be offensive without caring about the trail of damage you leave behind you? Smashing. Off you go.

Oh. That didn't take long.

I can't wait to read some hate-filled slashdotter's pathetic tirade against women. Have at it, chaps.

Would you mind outlining your qualifications in genetics that qualify you to make sweeping statements about peer-reviewed research?

Women's brains are different.

[Citation needed]

What systemic factors should we address

Perhaps we could address the macho heteronormative culture that leads, amongst other things, to unsafe workplaces. Oh wait, that's already something feminism is arguing for. Never mind.

No, you're completely missing my point. Specific taxes are not intended to pay for specific items of spending (as a rule). Ideally, a tax, should be efficient, fair, harmless and easy to collect, which is why sales/VAT/income taxes are so popular. Balancing a government budget (which again, you're confusing with a household budget) has nothing to do with what it is that is taxed.

There are revenues, which have sources, and spending commitments. You seem to be confusing them. Hypothecation is not, generally speaking, a thing.

You try offering agile services in a cyclical correlated market that requires multi-year massive upfront capital investment, smarty-pants.

You're suggesting shooting anyone that tries to cross the border of a land area the size of Central Europe? LOL.

But on the other hand, people that actually know what they're talking about say travel bans are counter-productive and hence bullshit. Who to believe?

Bit once you're in that position, why wouldn't the programme maker simply sell the program directly? For example, the fifth season of Breaking Bad came pretty close to not getting made; if the channel had dropped it and the makers had simply distributed it online, I somehow suspect it wouldn't have done too badly.

If Amazon ever stopped investing its profits in investing in growing its business, it would be spitting off eyewatering amounts of cash.

That stuff is why they invented pivot tables.