Rivalarrival

Bingo.

Either support the device until the heat death of the universe, or provide consumers with the access to maintain it themselves.

I feel pretty safe in assuming you are not a multi-billionaire. I also kinda doubt that you are the principal owner of a business that would come anywhere close to the top tier income tax bracket.

If those are reasonable assumptions, there is no reason why you should be thinking this way at all about your own investing.

I do know that I use 20% of my home exclusively for business purposes, and I count 20% of my housing costs as a business expense. That part of my home is paid out of my revenue (pre-tax) because it is a business expense, and the rest of it is paid out of my income (post-tax) because it is a personal expense.

I also know I have a fairly strong incentive to increase the area of my home dedicated to business purposes, and shrink the area I use personally. It's the same dollar payment on the same mortgage, the same real estate taxes, but now it's being made with pre-tax dollars, reducing my taxable income, and therefore my tax bill.

If my income tax rate was 91%, you can safely bet that I'd have no net income after my tax deductible business expenses. That's the entire purpose of a 91% top tier tax: Force them to actually spend their money, rather than hoarding it, and using it to hoard more.

Working within an unfair system to try to undo it is understable, but why defend it only when it suits your interests? That's the kind of thing fascists do.

While there may be a viable solution to the problems of the EC, you just explained why NPVIC is not that solution.

Can you honestly tell me that you would support your state casting their EC votes for Trump, even though a majority of your state voted for Harris?

Can you honestly say you expect the citizenry of every state to put the will of the nation ahead of their own? Ahead of their neighbors? I mean, most of these states are already using all sorts of shady methods to keep "undesirable" people from voting. The last president went so far as to attempt a coup, and his supporters loved him for it.

Do you honestly believe they're going to tolerate their state voting against their professed wishes?

Would you actually tolerate your state going against its own voters?

The best that the NPVIC could possibly accomplish is to allow a simple majority of the Supreme Court the opportunity to appoint the presidential candidate they prefer.

Yeah, but like, the value of the stock (for a billionaire) itself drops if you can't get dividends out of it as easily, so he's actually choosing between investing an effective $900 or getting $900 after tax.

No. You forget what he is acquiring as "business" expenses. He's either spending $10,000 on "business" or $900 in personal investments.

given that a campaign under a national popular vote would mean that there would be far more attention paid to places outside of Pennsylvania and the select handful of swing states.

Under popular vote, candidates will run to the urban centers, and completely ignore the rural populace.

NPVIC creates Panem.

That's hyperbole, of course, but exaggeration for purposes of demonstration.

How is it still a MAGA Congress? All the MAGAt politicians have become landfill.

You don't have to convince me of the merits of bypassing the EC.

You do have to convince me that the NPVIC will remain in effect after one election. Yes, repealing something like this generally takes time, and probably longer than the 5 weeks or so between the election and the day the EC votes are cast. But they don't have 5 weeks. They have the entire election cycle.

The only way it stays in effect is if it has no effect. If it would ever change the outcome of an election, it will be repealed by every state compelled to flip its votes.

In a typical 4-stroke engine, there is a process for resetting the engine between power strokes. The energy for the other three strokes (exhaust, intake, compression) comes from inertia in some sort of flywheel.

The "power stroke" in this system is not the gunpowder. It is the winching in of the cable.

In this system, the cannon is analogous to the flywheel: It merely resets the system between power strokes.

Ok.

Let's start with Gaetz.