{"id":90203,"date":"2026-04-22T08:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90203"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:42:58","slug":"depreciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90203","title":{"rendered":"Depreciated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE: \u00a0 Mitch BERG is fixing some broken chain link fence. \u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE pedals down the alley on a recumbent bike, catching him by surprise. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: Ugh&#8230;er, hey, Av&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Shut up. \u00a0Billionaires are evil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a0So why&#8217;s that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0They pay no taxes! It&#8217;s wrong for a billionaire to pay less taxes than a teaching assistant!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Their employees and subsidiary businesses pay immense taxes &#8211; and they personally defray taxes by using deductions and business losses &#8211; same as your progressive plutocrats. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: That&#8217;s just\u00a0<em>wrong<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BERG: OK. \u00a0Put a pin in that. \u00a0Did you see where Ilhan Omar&#8217;s personal fortune dropped from $30 million down to well under $100K?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yeah? \u00a0So? \u00a0It was an accounting error. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0The error being that the accountant didn&#8217;t consider&#8230;what, now?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Deductions and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Go on?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0(<em>Mouth flaps like a trout on the dock<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Same as the billionaires, right?<\/p>\n<p>LIBRELLE: \u00a0Pouncer!<\/p>\n<p>BERG: \u00a0Nah. \u00a0But if we find out that her and Hubby Number Four used that &#8220;mistaken&#8221; valuation to get credit, I&#8217;ll be pouncing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>But LIBRELLE has already pedaled away<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: \u00a0 Mitch BERG is fixing some broken chain link fence. \u00a0 Avery LIBRELLE pedals down the alley on a recumbent bike, catching him by surprise. \u00a0 LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg! BERG: Ugh&#8230;er, hey, Av&#8230; LIBRELLE: \u00a0Shut up. \u00a0Billionaires are evil.\u00a0 BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a0So why&#8217;s that&#8230; LIBRELLE: \u00a0They pay no taxes! It&#8217;s wrong for a billionaire to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,7],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-90203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90204,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90203\/revisions\/90204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}