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How is that the plan? 2% of wealth over $50M will make a person not rich? I don’t get it. What your thread title seems to me is a fundamental misunderstanding of how rich the rich are. You could feed all the poor with a tax on only the richest of the rich and it would make absolutely no difference to the fact that they’d still be ultra-ultra-rich.

It doesn't. What it changes is people who are sick can get care when then need it. Even poor people. It's that simple.

The main reason Elsinore started the "Excell" program was jumper retention,specially in RW, and the bad ass person who went to management with this idea(Melanie Curtis) wanted to give back to the sport and her discipline. It was also to help young jumpers gain much needed skills, with out breaking the bank. There is a difference between someone who is just a weekend fun jumper wanting to improve their skills in order to be safe, and have a basic understanding and foundation to be able to hold their own in a random fun jump at any DZ with the LO for the day, vs a jumper with a goal to gain basic skills and more in order to consider getting on a 4 wy team, which then requires more specific "coaching" and is usually with the rest of your teammates and the cost is split.among the team. Coaching for a team is intense and time consuming, and the coach, has spent a considerable amount of time and money obtaining the knowledge and skills that they are passing on, and most of the time it is part of their income.

Why do Americans not understand the fact that single payer healthcare is cheaper than a hodgepodge of private for profit insurance schemes financed by employers through lower wages? Tax policy and collection always falls mostly on those who have taxes deducted at source. You are correct, the wealthy will find a way to avoid taxation like they always do.

The hardest working man on the drop zone. I don't think he ever slept.

My wild guess for PISA is Parachute Industry of South Africa