Maybe I’m seeing shadows, but it feels like they are adopting a new tone in some of their editorials, some of which border on defensiveness. Maybe they’re getting the message that it’s not useful to gratuitously, alienate the majority of their readership.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LGkRR4ZNsEA&si=xBzhrKVwN32dIZHJ
David Freidberg actually has many interesting insights on current problems with income inequality and its effect on support for capitalism. One of his suggestions:
40% tax on capital gains and 15% on income. The fact that the rich pay fewer taxes than normal workers feels totally unfair to anyone who doesn’t have their own capital. I’m pleasantly surprised that he has identified this as a big problem.
Of the all-in cast, he’s the only one who understands the degree to which the disparity in wealth is undermining the capitalist system. And he points to failures in public policy that I happen to agree with. A couple of other fixes that would make things more fair: kill the stepped up basis rule for inherited assets – – it really is absolutely no rational argument for it. And tax that that is borrowed from securities at the same level that you would tax capital gains from those securities. Then you wouldn’t have all the Decamillionaires and billionaires simply borrowing money so that they can leave their assets to their heirs under the stepped-up basis rule – – completely tax-free.
What’s tragedy this year has been. I was a subscriber for 50 years, read it before the Times in the morning. Now it’s a shadow of its former self, no longer has a loyal readership, and seems destined for the same sorry fate as the LA Times. It didn’t have to be this way – – they learned no lesson from Trump 1. Or rather Bezos learned the wrong lessons. If you have multiple interests with the US government, better to toady up to them and destroy rather than foster an American institution that was l led in your trust. There will surely be a great tell all about this sorry chapter that will become a major part of Jeff Bezos’s legacy.
The editorial page under Fred Hyatt was the best in the US. Now it is about as compelling as a college newspaper, and most of the editorial board seems like they’re right out of college. The digital media is a joke compared to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Or even your average YouTube channel. I’m all for writers who are young and conservative if they are compelling and brilliant. But I have yet to see an editorial that made me go “aha,” and a shocking percentage are downright embarrassing
I have a green card that was issued thirty years ago. I have always traveled with it, occasionally immigration officers will say you really should replace that with a new green card, but it’s not been required. Thinking of traveling abroad now – – has anybody heard of bad experiences with these cards in this administration? I’m from Brazil originally, been here for forty years.