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Out of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most
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Lion Air 737 MAX Widow Received A $4 Million Settlement. Now She’s Suing Her Lawyers - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/lion-air…
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American Airlines Replaced Customer Service With QR Codes. Then Storms Hit Its D.C. Hub - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/american…
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New Bodycam Shows American Airlines Deplaning Everyone After Two Passengers Refused To Leave Wrong Seats - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/new-body…
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Not only is @RoKhanna evil, he can't do math. Leave aside that @elonmusk has already paid more taxes than anyone else in human history, reinvented the electric car industry, sends rockets into space (and brings them back), gave us Starlink internet...
The math here is off by many orders of magnitude. 4 years of undergraduate tuition for all current undergraduate students at 4-year institutions would exceed the cost all Elon's net worth. A 5% tax on Elon assets would not fund this.
You'd do it once and the money would be gone and - no - that's not even close to worth it.
Put another way, Elon Musk having this wealth - because he's created far more for society - means it'll be allocated better than if it were taken and given to you to spend.
Besides Elon could not liquidate all his assets and realize a trillion dollars. If he were allowed to just start dumping SpaceX stock the price would plummet.
I do not agree withMusk's obsession with many things, I dislike his race tweets, but he's clearly created far more value for the world than @RoKhanna.
Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American.
And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars!
You don't think that's worth it?
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5% of $1.2T is $60b. 8m students in BA/BS programs on average pay over $20k/yr, or ~$160b/yr for BA/BS degrees only.
That tax could not cover even half of only US bachelor degree costs for just 1 year, excluding grad, ass., or trade degrees totaling another ~10m students.
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Passenger Flew To Meet And Marry His Internet Girlfriend After Four Days Without Sleep, Went To The Hospital Instead - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/passenge…
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Delta’s Cincinnati Hub Was Doomed Before The Northwest Merger, But The Airport Rebuilt Around Cargo - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/deltas-c…
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American Airlines Makes Rare $4,000 Voucher Offer For Volunteers On Overbooked Athens Flight - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/american…
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American Airlines Adds Venmo, FOX Streaming, And Free Bag Rechecks For Stranded Passengers
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British Airways Put Up Flight Attendants In London Hotels. Now The U.K. Demands $7.8 Million In Tax - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/british-…
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CrowdStrike Stranded Passengers—But A 1978 Law Says Airline Vendors Can’t Be Sued For This - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/crowdstr…
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United Airlines Confirms It Will Block Middle Seats On New A321XLRs To Fly With Fewer Flight Attendants - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/united-a…
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Passengers Leave Airport Lounges A Mess As Crowds Overwhelm Once-Premium Spaces - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/passenge…
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He said he was just trying to pick up a piece of paper off the men's room floor. Which from the perspective of a germaphobe may have been worse?
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On this day in 2007 --
U.S. Sen. Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport
#WideStance #Jiminy!
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Flying Blue Gold Status Match Ends Saturday, Unlocking Free Delta Bags, Boarding, And Exit Rows - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/flying-b…
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Man In U.S. Illegally Pleads Guilty After Using Woman’s Boarding Pass And Attacking TSA Officers At Las Vegas Airport - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/man-in-u…
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Frontier Passenger Arrested After Fighting With Crew Over Second Dog She Snuck Onto Flight - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/frontier…
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Southwest Airlines Boardroom Drama Sidelines CEO-In-Waiting And Threatens Its Famous Culture
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United Airlines Improves Family Mileage Pooling [Roundup] - View from the Wing viewfromthewing.com/united-a…
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Thaddeus McCotter said it better.
"The recent event's totality of calumnies, indignities and deceits have weighed most heavily upon my family. Thus, acutely aware one cannot rebuild their hearth of home amongst the ruins of their U.S. House office, for the sake of my loved ones I must "strike another match, go start anew" by embracing the promotion back from public servant to sovereign citizen."
Jun 10
Headed back to the private sector at the end of this term, as the Founders intended.
When I ran in 2020 I said I'd only serve 3 terms and my time is up. It's truly been an immense honor and I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
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