HamsterDan

Sure, it's not true, but the fact that I believed it could be true pretty much confirms that Elon is evil, does it not?

Finding food and housing is a source of stress for literally all life on earth. Only for a fortune few humans is it not a source of stress.

If the EU can force every person on earth to dismiss a cookie popup on every website they visit, surely they can pass some regulation to rein in the expansion of tipping.

For example, just make it a requirement that the default tip is 0% in point of sale systems.

This is going to expand tipping dramatically. I don't understand how you could have any optimism that tipping will go away after this is passed.

Businesses are going to work hard to blur the line between a tip and a required payment so that they can call their income a tip while customers think they're obligated to pay it.

That's not a tip, it's a bid. Expect a lot more businesses to start operating like this if no tax on tips goes into effect.

Restricting food to civilians has been a legitimate war tactic forever. It's called a siege. If this is unacceptable to Palestine, they need to return the Israeli hostages.

Israel is under no obligation to provide aid to their opponent in a war. Anybody suggesting such is transparently anti-Semitic. Nobody would ever make such a ridiculous claim if it were their own countrymen held hostage.

This change neither increases nor decreases the size of the government, so it's unclear how you think "party of small government" is relevant here.

If the rich won't run away, then Spain and Brazil don't need global action. They could just jack up taxes on the rich in their own countries. And since you've now pinky sworn that the rich will stay and pay the extra taxes, it won't have any adverse effects domestically.

It's a monstrous disincentive to increased productivity. If you're a smart, ambitious person who wants to work hard and advance your lot in life, are you really going to stay in Spain knowing that the government is going to take half of everything incremental thing you do?

This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.

Your standard for dull is too high. Most of the world does not create anything. The mere fact that you're creating something, even if it is an amateurish model airplane, is already cooler than what most of the world does with their free time.