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  • The super rich at Davos are scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to hike taxes [tr]

    01/22/2019 8:26:42 AM PST · by C19fan · 47 replies
    CNBC ^ | January 22, 2019 | Hugh Son and Brian Schwartz
    The elite financiers attending Davos are worried about the 70 percent tax rate on earnings above $10 million proposed by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. "It's scary," Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer for $265 billion Guggenheim Partners, said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "By the time we get to the presidential election this is going to gain more momentum," said Minerd, who added that he would probably be personally impacted by it. "And I think the likelihood that a 70 percent tax rate, or something like that, becomes policy is...
  • Calif. Man Posts Suicide Note on Facebook

    12/29/2012 12:36:11 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 47 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Calif-man-posts-suicide-note-on-Facebook-4151849.php
    A Central California man died after posting a suicide note on Facebook and then driving his car onto railroad tracks about an hour later, as friends and family frantically tried to get in touch with him. Antjuan Miguel Colvin, 21, was struck by a train going about 75 mph in Hughson on Christmas night and pronounced dead at the scene, Stanislaus County sheriff's Sgt. Anthony Bejaran told the Modesto Bee (http://bit.ly/Vbowd4 ).