Comment by sokoloff
2 days ago
Yes, that’s exactly my point.
That is what makes the timeline GGP laid out impossible:
> We can pass a wealth tax tomorrow and it’ll suddenly be taxable.
Unless we don’t share a common definition of “tomorrow” or “suddenly”. (For reference, the 16th Amendment process took about 3 years and 7½ months from Senator Norris Brown’s initial formal proposal to ratification by the then-necessary 36th state. [You would need 38 states today.])
OK I think you might be reading this a bit too literally. The dangers of online discourse.
The point is that we can do it if we want to.
Maybe. If my complaint was "tomorrow is Saturday, you can't pass it on a Saturday, duh...", then yeah, I'd absolutely be reading "tomorrow" and "suddenly" too literally.
When you meant "shortly before Memorial Day of 2030", it's not clear that 51% of the misunderstanding is on the reader.