The marginal tax rate goes from 37% to 39.6%, if taxable income is over $400K.
This post has the percentages listed backwards.
And if your taxable income is over $400,000 why the hell are you reading the Stranger, instead of the Puget Sound Business Journal, or the WSJ?

More to the point, the Biden tax proposal expands a tax credit for 1st time homebuyers - very helpful for that down payment on a home purchase.

RE: Big game hunting

I don't know the specifics of the NRA people shooting the elephant, nor of Botswana's proposal.

However, in most cases, the people who shell out tons of cash to hunt big animals are actually helping the herds. The money goes into conservation and protecting endangered species from poachers. It's some of the largest funding they get for those things. Also, the hunters are typically told what animals they're allowed to shoot, which are often sick, or injured, or otherwise not healthy.

Don't get me wrong, trophy hunting is a bizarre and cruel fetish in my opinion, but the exorbitant fees the hunters have to pay is what's saving those animals long term.

$70k for an elephant?! Come on, Botswana! Don't they know your Trump Jr. types would probably drop $7m for that "privilege"?
Here's a weird story of unintended consequences for you. Plastics came about as a replacement for ivory in-order to save all the elephants from being made into billiard balls and piano keys. Well, we may have saved the elephants (for now), but we littered the world with plastic.

Re: The COVIDiot in FL - this appears to be a clearly discriminatory practice. Federal HIPAA standards DO allow an employer to ask about an employee's vaccination status, but it's generally interpreted in the context of verifying the legitimacy of an employee's health or disability claim, and certainly was never intended to punish an employee for making the quite sensible choice to protect their own, and their family's - and in this case their co-workers - personal health. One can only hope that if any employee IS terminated as a result of this Neanderthal-level policy, they sue this organization back into the state of financial destitution they so rightfully deserve.

@5:

There are some great comedy lines in Citizen Kane:

"You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."

"Kane: Are we going to declare war on Spain, or are we not?

Leland: The Inquirer already has.

Kane: You long-faced, overdressed anarchist!

Leland: I am not overdressed!

Kane: You are too! Mr. Bernstein, look at his necktie."

"Kane: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years."

"Bernstein : There's a lot of statues in Europe you haven't bought yet.

Kane : You can't blame me. They've been making statues for some two thousand years, and I've only been collecting for five."

Citizen Kane is essentially a parody.

How can anyone prove they have NOT been vaccinated (or rather how can a school know whether or not someone HAS been vaccinated if they lie and say they haven't)? Of course WHY anyone who HAD been vaccinated would want to work in such a place is beyond me. When are we going to put a stop to these people who are actively doing everything possible get people sick and kill them?

Ah, Florida. The gift that keeps giving.

they usta just wanna
enslave or jail po' peeps*
now they wanna Genocide 'em
THIS is the repubs' Final Solution?

*and off-Whites

Sweet, sweet Florida, you never disappoint. We wouldn't really be the USA without you dangling out the front of our pants, screaming nonsense.

@1 some of us read all of them.

I mean, I use the last 4 pages of section 1 of the WSJ to pick up dog poo, but the rest is useful

Is that $400K single income or family income? If family, there are a lot of tech DINK's out there making $400K in this economy quite easily. (Double Income No Kids).

Stepping up to soap box. And it's not just the tech folks ... Have any of you tried to hire a contractor recently? The quotes they are providing people are INSANE. On one of them, I estimated I would be paying someone close to $400 per hour. Yikes.
Stepping down from soap box.

Does the NY Post have a White House reporter? If they are intentionally peddling false stories, can the government justify revoking their press credentials?

Rudy Giuliani's apartment has been searched by federal investigators' working to uncover his precise Ukraine/Russia connections. Way, way overdue. And no mercy or special favors for Rudy. The truth and nothing but the truth. And I suspect it's very nasty, ugly, and incriminating. After all the lying and character assassination Giuliani committed on behalf of his corrupt paymasters, public exposure is the least he deserves. Shame on him a hundred times over.

@15:

Some contractors may be pulling down mid six-figures, but I'd bet dollars to donut holes that's gross income, not net profit. Independent Contractors have a lot of expenses, so there's a very good chance their net isn't necessarily going anywhere near $400K. Not saying it can't happen, but I'd be surprised if most fall into that category.

@6: Private schools aren’t covered entities under HIPAA. Please, everyone, stop dispensing legal advice on the internet.

@18 I think the better response to @15's whining is "supply and demand, my friend-- and welcome to the sharp end of it."

If you want your skilled manual labor to be a fungible commodity, well then button your lip and open your wallet when you find yourself in a shortage. Surely the market will work its magic, no?