In 1970, there were 25 tax brackets which allowed the income tax to be truly progressive. The top marginal rate kicked in at $300,000, which, in inflated 2025 dollars is roughly $3,000,000. Every dollar earned over that amount was taxed 70%. Musk earns $1b, he keeps $300m. Enough, don't you think?

…painful. He wanted voters to blame Dems for their hunger. I suspect all these flight cancellations are the same - unnecessary and painful. What he cares about least is his constituents’ benefit.

A little more because he'd be taxed at lower rates for the earnings under three million.

…had only one billionaire. Today there are over 700 who collectively hold over 20% of GDP.

But AI is a tool in producing CG, no?

Does anyone play, "Swimming to Cambodia (Gray)" or "Freak (Leguizamo)" or "Twilight: Los Angeles (Smith)" or "Signs of Intelligent Life, (Tomlin)" (Signs had a run with Cecily Strong playing it). Others you'd like to see?

...compared with a Springsteen concert and, I thought then, "this would be more interesting if someone else played the part. I know what Bruce does but a new talent..." And the more I think about it, there's a lot of great one person shows that don't need to be limited to it's original star....

...longer seems possible. But, maybe she could direct a new performer. It's a locked book. Someone else could play it, preserve it as a theater work that can be revived again and again. Separate the work from the identity. When I saw "Springsteen on Brodway," I liked it but it seemed dead...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince.

I wonder if I can get the shoeshine concession.

Miriam Hopkins

"Its architecture promotes a state of congestion on all possible levels, and exploits this congestion to inspire and support particular forms of social intercourse that together form a unique culture of congestion." both quotes from Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaus.

"It seems to me plain that all the elements for the urban implosion were present and that the city, in one form or another, performed its special function-that of complex receptacle for maximizing the possibilities of human intercourse and passing on the contents of civilization.”..' .