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Which kinda reflects on how widespread that shit is.

But yeah, rarely anybody even remembers anymore how many Epsteins there are in this world. I recently wanted to make a joke about the authors of The Expanse not knowing how their hyperdrive works, what was it called again … oh yeah, the Epstein Drive … I decided to drop the joke.

That name is going to go the way of the Hitler I guess.

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This is 100% real estate agent lingo.

Tax is not a punishment.

Are you replying to the wrong person? I specifically pointed out that they were thinking about something else.

Hardly. If the alcohol tax on a bottle of wine is €5 and the bottle is sold for €10, that’s a pretty steep price. If the bottle is sold for €100 or even more, it’s nothing.

But I understand that you were probably thinking about companies calculating spending & sales.

Even the countries that do this employ all sorts of edge case rules not to make it too fair.

Well, at least my country does. One of those famous Northern European “Socialist” countries.

TBF: both rich and poor people pay luxury tax (tobacco, alcohol etc.) - but such taxes always affect low income people more.