This is currently a problem in my country. The government needs money to buy tanks and guns. The poor don't have anything to tax, the rich cannot be taxed- so that leaves the folks in the middle.
We are living in sad times. Historically when a country got itself into a life or death struggle all the rich people handed over their jewellery to fund the war. Now they fly to Dubai or Bern.
For everyone's sake, I hope you're correct. A quick scan of the article's comment section is enough to seriously curb one's optimism, though. I don't know what the demographic makeup of participants in WSJ's comment threads is, but the views expressed are surprisingly homogenous in both substance and tone.
I like to challenge myself with a little "game" in which I attempt to guess the most commonly expressed opinions in WSJ comments based solely on the parent article title; it isn't a particularly difficult game.
This is currently a problem in my country. The government needs money to buy tanks and guns. The poor don't have anything to tax, the rich cannot be taxed- so that leaves the folks in the middle.
We are living in sad times. Historically when a country got itself into a life or death struggle all the rich people handed over their jewellery to fund the war. Now they fly to Dubai or Bern.
The Overton Window is really shifting if the WSJ is publishing stuff like this.
For everyone's sake, I hope you're correct. A quick scan of the article's comment section is enough to seriously curb one's optimism, though. I don't know what the demographic makeup of participants in WSJ's comment threads is, but the views expressed are surprisingly homogenous in both substance and tone.
I like to challenge myself with a little "game" in which I attempt to guess the most commonly expressed opinions in WSJ comments based solely on the parent article title; it isn't a particularly difficult game.
I used to work IT at a newspaper.
98% of the comments were made by a handful of super-posters, and that was before AI hit the world.