Timeline for Taxing the superhero industry
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| Aug 28, 2018 at 12:54 | history | edited | Liath | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @Adi219 why? The Avengers didn't wreck the place. All the damage had a proximate cause of one specific act, and it wasn't their act. They did a lot of rescues and fought the bad guys. You wouldn't sue the firemen for burning your house down. | |
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| Aug 27, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | R. Schmitz | "Yeah, I was right next to those 200 people dying, but I have a mortgage now" | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 20:05 | comment | added | Clay Deitas | @Battle That's the same scenario used in The Awesomes which is a hulu show I think. It was pretty good as well. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 20:02 | comment | added | Battle | Great answer. Also: The reasoning could be something about "engaging villains is just as bad as what villains do" or "engaging villains is what causes them to escalate to violence in the first place." | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 12:49 | comment | added | Adi219 | The Avengers would've went bankrupt a long time before Thanos decided to go on his little quest if these taxes were in place in Sokovia :) | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 8:39 | comment | added | Clay Deitas | @Alan Campbell I just saw a rainbow become a double rainbow. A double rainbow of evil! >:D | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 7:56 | comment | added | Alan Campbell | Don't call it tax, call it "insurance". Any hero who may damage property must carry insurance, paid to City Hall. When damage occurs, premiums go up. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 23:04 | comment | added | Clay Deitas | @Tracy Cramer An excellent point! I should promote you to the head of a campaign division! | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | Tracy Cramer | One does not even need to make the tax on only superheroes - although the implication can be made clear in advertisements and conversations. Damage to public property requires a tax - period. If you are elected you can suggest to the judges to whom these cases come to let 'normals' off if it was an accident, whereas superheroes have a responsibility to use their enhanced power in a responsible manner. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | John Doe | This appeals to the libertarian in me: all fines are taxes! Fines are taxes, permit fees are taxes, licensing fees are taxes, bail money for arrested unlicensed heroes is a tax, registration fees are taxes, required training fees (if you think that you don't need "training" to be a hero, you've obviously never tried to cut someone's hair in California) are taxes, the money to lobby the government in order to be a legitimate hero trainer is a tax. Just because it's not called a "tax" doesn't mean it's not a tax. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 17:36 | comment | added | Seth R | And even if the villains do cause damage during their capers, they're villains! No one really expects the bad guys to pay their taxes anyway. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 16:40 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | This. Average citizens would approve, and of course villains don’t have to pay it. After all if they’d just been allowed to take the jewels then no damage would have come to the bank at all!! | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 16:28 | history | answered | Clay Deitas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |