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If unconstrained greed is such a good thing, I guess we can call you a fan of Alex Murdock. Sensible people realize there needs to be limits to greed. When people build their fortune facilitated by a society that provides them with an educated work force, infrastructure that allows them to access their supply base and get their products to market, and on and on, yet claim they shouldn’t have to help pay for any of that, they are worse than the mythical welfare queen they so fear.

When MAGA types are asked about the mythical "Again" time they want to return to, they generally vaguely refer to the post-WWII years. Back when Men were Men (or cowboys, or test pilots), women knew their place (baking cookies while barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen), and the color line was in full force. Another interesting aspect of MAGA dream time is that during the Eisenhower Administration the top marginal income tax rate, which applied to income above $200,000 ($400,000 for couples) ($200,00 in 1954 dollars is equivalent to $2.3 million today), was 91% (!!!). Of course, that was the taxes applied to the portion of income above those limits. A couple making $465,000 would have paid an effective tax rate of 75%. (source) So I'm curious, if there is any truth to the argument that expecting the very wealthy to pay anything more than an incredibly low tax rate would result in them refusing to invest in business, leading to the collapse of American society, how is it that those years of 90% tax rates are the very same years that are held up as the best years in America's history? And Brent, I'll see your "envy" and raise you "greed".

We're talking about the effects of unrestrained wealth accumulation assisted by a governing party that will use the wealth disproportionally directed into a certain small number of coffers, owned by reliable supporters, as a means of maintaining power and to launder a nations wealth into the leaders coffers. Here we are talking about the American Oligarchy. We are talking about Bezos, Musk, Dimon, Crow, Hankey, Lass, etc. etc and all of the many billionaire hedge fund owners like Fisher who now are saying Trump is probably not too bad or backing his bond for future favors or out of current obligation. We're talking about yachts that cost several 100's of millions of dollars and attendant support ships with helicopters and submarines that cost the same not a $25,000 sailboat that is also called a yacht. We're not talking silly parables. We're talking about not getting so close to having a system similar to Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE that there is no turning back. We're simply talking about adjustments to the ability to accumulate capital at obscenely high levels not about wanting a neighbors goat or to simply deprive them of it out of spite.

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Again, none of this is evidence that the Seattle ATC transcripts have been redacted, altered or otherwise different from the originals. Moreover, you seem to be implying some kind of cover up by the FBIor FAA, but have provided even less evidence in that regard. As I have said, again and again, if you have evidence for a massive cover up in the NORJAK case that includes these mysterious redactions, please provide some evidence.