Skydancer
Can't pardon civil contempt. The judge declared probable cause for criminal contempt, and crimes can be pardoned
As long as that infant happens to be a cow
Nah. He'll insist they swap the first two.
At which point they stop being nazis
I was skeptical of your numbers, so I did the math:
Taking the first article I found newer than 2022, US billionaires have about $6.22 trillion of wealth ± recent stock market changes. UBI of $1000/month is most commonly estimated to cost $4 trillion/year.
US budget in 2024 was 6.8 trillion, but 1.87 trillion is in social security and income security programs UBI would replace, so the net change would raise the budget by 2.17 trillion to 8.39T. So 8.896 months - more like nine months than eight, but surprisingly close.
Of course, that assumes all other taxes are wiped out, which nobody has ever proposed. I can't find a number anywhere for total income tax paid by billionaires, so we'll be generous. OMB estimates billionaires pay an average tax rate of only 8.2%. Their wealth increased 2.9 trillion over 7 years, so ignore compounding and call it 414B/yr. And pretend it's all taxed (which it isn't - most isn't considered income). That's 33.9B in income taxes the IRS doesn't collect after wiping out the billionaires. That reduces IRS revenues collected from 5.1T to 5.06T (being generous again with the rounding). That buys us another 7 months of government funding.
Alternatively, doubling the effective tax rate on the top 1% earning over 3.3M/yr from 26.09% to 52.18% would balance the budget including the new UBI. Get the effective tax rate on billionaires to match and you can start paying off the national debt. All without touching the middle class or even lowering anyone's income below 1.65M/yr.
Don't get me wrong - taxing billionaires out of existence is certainly a moral imperative - it just isn't necessary to fund UBI.
Staple it to job applications too. I suspect many blue state and private schools would see it as a commendation.
Rodents. Most people don't compost properly - they leave out the cover material on the sides and top, and still believe the myth that compost needs to be turned.
The fruit smell attracts rodents. Enough cover material keeps the smell in and the edibles inaccessible. Then you can compost most of the foodstuffs you're normally told not to (fruit, animal products, dairy, etc.). Oil is still a no-no, as I recall.
Must be a Spelljammer campaign.
I'm not so sure. I'd take a sock full of quarters over a sock with a 3.5" spinning disc hard drive in it any day of the week.
This is an article about an article. The original Atlantic article that contains the messages themselves is here
They could have imposed up to €55 billion across the two companies. That doubles for repeat offenders. This was clearly meant as a warning.