Okay this is cool and cause Sam Neill is a kiwi and I was just thinking about what a new NZ flag could look like, heres the nz flag with the Maori flag instead of the union jack:
“Joe Manchin’s daughter has been proved to have been engaged in illegal price fixing” is, at the same time, infuriating and not even close to being a surprise. Like, this is one of those “scientists prove water is wet” news stories.
Flint’s physicality is so interesting to me, because even as a viewer he truly seems larger than life?
In that he’s actually not very tall at all, but I never notice until he stands next to Billy or even one of the other characters or even Madi.
Or that he’s not got that deep of a voice, that especially John has a much *much* deeper voice than him, but I always forget until they actually talk to each other.
It’s like Flint’s *presence* is so overwhelming, even on film, even as someone who knows this to be fiction, his narrative is so all-encompassing that i always conceptualize him as someone more physically imposing than he is and that’s just so damn good.
I think about this particularly in relation to this gif here:
[gif: Flint saying “Everyone’s wrong but you”]
Billy is miles taller than Flint, but Flint OWNS this moment. Instead of being disadvantaged by the necessity of looking up at a taller person, he manages to make it appear that Billy is wasting Flint’s time by being so tall. Look at how long it takes him to bother getting his eyes all the way up to Billy’s face! I am undone.
A recent paper by David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King’s College London found that tax cuts for the rich in 18 countries predominantly benefited the wealthy.
“Our analysis finds strong evidence that cutting taxes on the rich increases income inequality but has no effect on growth or unemployment” in the short and long term, the researchers wrote.
After major tax cuts for the rich were introduced, the top 1% share of pretax national income increased by almost 1 percentage point, they found.
Their findings counter arguments that tax cuts for the rich “trickle down” to benefit other people — which the researchers noted have been part of the rationale for major tax reforms in the US.
Supporters say tax cuts for the rich can lead wealthy people to put in more hours and effort at work, boosting economic activity, the researchers said. Other arguments for trickle-down tax cuts include that they allow wealthy people to invest more and benefit the economy.
Hope and Limberg analyzed major tax cuts for the rich in 18 countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, including the US, Japan, and Norway, from 1965 to 2015.
Top incomes have risen rapidly since the 1980s — and as they grew, more tax cuts for the wealthy were introduced, the researchers said.
The researchers said their results were in line with a 2014 paper published in the American Economic Journal that suggested that lower taxes for the rich caused high earners to seek pay raises.
“Cutting taxes on the rich increases top income shares, but has little effect on economic performance,” Hope and Limberg concluded.
Taxes have been scrutinized during the pandemic as countries look for ways to fund COVID-19 relief efforts.
Earlier this month, Argentina enacted a one-off “millionaire tax” to help pay for its pandemic response. Fewer than one in 100 earners will pay the tax, which the government hopes will raise $3.78 billion.
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