But the math doesn't add up...

And those corporations turn around and pass that tax on to people...

And this is why you believe in Sanders. The GDP includes government spending. You are literally including credit card spending in your income number.

The Constitution, last time I knew how to read, is a document enumerating the powers of the government. There is nothing in the Constitution that bars a wealth tax, but that doesn't matter. The real point is that there is nothing in the Constitution that gives the government the power to tax wealth. If you think everything not mentioned in the Constitution is up for grabs by the federal government, there's a little 10th Amendment for you... "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

A masters in engineering as a qualification for talking about climate science? Maybe ask Bill Nye...

Trying to stifle any dissenting voice that might mention any positive aspects of CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't sound like science to me.

It's simple, you just make up ridiculous numbers for what everyone else calls externalities including mass crop failures, every respiratory ailment death, and the cost of all natural disasters and then stick that big ol number into the "indirect subsidy" column.

I really want to know how people delude themselves into thinking they can take away fossil fuels and lower the cost of electricity and heating... There is a reason we use natural gas and heating oil. Solar and wind ain't going to cut it.

Everything the government proposes sounds like money well spent... Except the government never spends money well.

Well since he only wants to tax the richest 1%, that's closer to 5 million per person...

The cost of doing nothing is not something that can be reasonably estimated.

Walmart, Kroger, and other stores with gas stations are missing a huge opportunity to load orders into your car while you refuel. That to me is where they can outdo Amazon. You have to stop for gas anyway, why not get your groceries or orders at the same time?

Captain Phasma? You mean the character with about 7 lines and only half her face was shown in a brief second before she died? Also, it was a character established by JJ Abrams...

Engineers use acre-feet. They measure the exit flow rate in cubic feet per second. The Imperial system doesn't have a reasonable unit of measure for reservoir sized quantities. Cubic miles are too large, cubic yards too small. And metric aficionados like yourself hate it when engineers make up new units like kilopounds.

Acre-feet are easy to understand even for a layman and are a very reasonable sized unit for a lake whose size is measured in acres and depth measured in feet.

No, consumption taxes discourage waste and overconsumption. Any consumption tax will have a prebate to offset the cost of the consumption tax for a minimum standard of living just like the income tax rate is zero underneath a certain income.

Income taxes are stupid and have always been.

What the hell are you going to do with a 108MP cell phone camera, or a 40MP front camera? Pretty sure 90-95% of those pixels are just noise. If a full frame sensor is good enough with 12.1 MP. Anything more than 5-10MP in a phone camera is useless considering the sensor size and the glass. Plus it's going to immediately get compressed into sub 10MB JPG anyhow.

Every proposed consumption tax would have a prebate specifically to address the ability of the poor to pay for their needs. Consumption taxes are better economically because they discourage overconsumption rather than an income tax which discourages overproduction.

Considering everyone is concerned with waste, pollution, and inefficiency, a consumption tax would improve all of those things. An income tax just punishes the successful.

I would support a national popular instant runoff vote with no primaries over the electoral college system we have now. It really doesn't matter popular vote or not if the first past the post with primaries system weeds down the number of viable candidates to 2 horrible options.

Maybe we should stop using a voting system that encourages tyranny?

The only people feeling threatened by someone who looks "librul" and then actively shooting and killing them is your government. And they generally face little to no penalty for doing so.

A well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State... And the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

It's called reading. Try it some time.