<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6377660004919201297"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6377660004919201297WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span><i><span class="m_-6377660004919201297gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">All those new trillionaires will find it most profitable to find some employment for the displaced masses. </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">They will have the means to keep them employed. </span></i></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Doing <span class="gmail_default" style="">what</span>, digging holes and then filling them up again?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Watching paint dry? </span></b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6377660004919201297"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6377660004919201297WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><font size="4" style="" face="georgia, serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Meanwhile, the federal government can do nothing, for it doesn’t have that kind of money.</font></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><font size="4" style="">The federal government</font><font size="4" style=""> would </font></b></font></span><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>have<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> more than enough money if somebody <span class="gmail_default" style="">gets the</span> idea of putting a small tax on things that a trillionaire would like, like<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>yachts that are longer than 500 feet<span class="gmail_default" style="">, and on private residences that are larger than Buckingham Palace .</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John </span><span class="gmail_default" style=""></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6377660004919201297"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-6377660004919201297WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-6377660004919201297gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-6377660004919201297gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-6377660004919201297gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-6377660004919201297gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>