Lucia McPherson

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

Read the question again: "Should billionaires be allowed to exist?" Allowed by whom, exactly? Some committee gets to decide the maximum permissible success, and past that line your property is forfeit? That's the actual mechanism being proposed here, and it deserves to be stated plainly, because "tax the rich" sounds a lot friendlier than "the state will confiscate everything past a number we picked." I'm not a billionaire and will never be one. But a government powerful enough to decree that no citizen may hold more than X dollars is a government powerful enough to move X wherever it likes, and history suggests it won't stop at people richer than you. The same logic that caps wealth at a billion caps it at a million once the politics shift. If the problem is that the tax code is broken, fix the tax code. "You may not be this successful" is a different and darker idea than "you must pay your share."

Should daylight saving time be abolished permanently?

We have tried to fix the clock before and made a mess. In 1974 the U.S. tried year-round daylight time during the energy crisis and parents revolted over children waiting for school buses in the dark; it was repealed within a year. Russia's 2011 experiment with permanent daylight time ended the same way, with a switch to permanent standard time in 2014. Every option has a constituency that hates it, which is why the current compromise survives: we muddle through two transitions a year that most people adjust to within days. The [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/) has covered how the Sunshine Protection Act keeps stalling precisely because nobody agrees on the replacement. Abolishing the switch sounds decisive until you have to pick the time, and then the fight starts over. Sometimes the devil you know is the policy.

Strongly disagree that audits are the answer at all. You cannot audit back data that was already sold to brokers. Ban the sale of precise location data outright and the audit question becomes moot.

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