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William Stewart's avatar

Hey Jeramy. I love the writing. I would also love you to go a bit more into detail about what you think a fairer system is? Clearly there has got to be a better balance of wealth than what we have now. At the same time, seeing Bernie Sanders attacking Elon Musk and Bezoes for the ''billions made from the pandemic rings hollow because we understand that wealth and values of shares that you can or can't easily liquidate aren't the same thing. I think we do need a stronger tax system, but the idea of taxing something like shares that you can't realise the value of them without selling them doesn't seem fair either. Any thoughts?

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Elijah's avatar

This post feels like its mostly about your disagreements on tax policy. That's not a critique of journalism, its a policy disagreement. You also seem unwilling to take seriously positions that diverge significantly from your own, instead framing them as "very radical" or otherwise unreasonable. This makes any policy engagement pretty hollow since your unwilling or unable to take their position seriously. Finally, if your going to apologize for being "overly fight-y" maybe don't end w/

"I appreciate that ProPublica is trying to recruit tax lawyers to help them. Though maybe the time to do that was before they started writing."

This piece is a bad straw man of a policy position, not media criticism. I'm quite disappointed.

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