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Can’t we just launch ALL the billionaires into space?

We live in a dark, dark world, people. An adorable baby hippo named Moo Deng is getting harassed at the zoo. Katy Perry somehow won the award for most iconic VMA performance in history. Dunkin' A-listers Jen and Ben have broken up AGAIN? And billionaires still aren’t being taxed for their unrealized gains.

Luckily, Kamala Harris has a plan to address at least one of these travesties.

Currently, Americans who own assets like stocks, fine art, and real estate only have to pay a tax on the income they have made from those assets when they are sold. The Biden-Harris “billionaire minimum tax” proposes that households worth over $100 million pay a minimum 25% tax on all of their income. The tax would include gains on investments like stock, fine art, and real estate, regardless of whether or not they are sold.

A majority of voters, including 82% of Democrats and 55% of Independents, support this proposal for a minimum 25% tax on the incomes of households worth over $100 million.

We’re not going to lie: this policy does have some real, adverse consequences — it very well could decrease the number of available yachts for orcas to attack. But at least under Kamala Harris’ plan, 25% of the value of your bad Tweets will be going back to the people, rather than Elon’s pocket. And isn’t that what democracy is really all about?

Read the full poll here.

Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:

Call us Cady Heron the way we’re destroying the Plastics

We haven’t been suffering through years of soggy straws that taste like when you ate paper that one time in the third grade just to let the plastic and fossil fuel companies off the hook for the plastic waste crisis.

For more than 50 years, the plastics and fossil fuel industries have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management, even though plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale. We’re sorry to break the news to you — you can send your invoice for all those hours spent wondering if you can recycle your milk jugs and pizza boxes over to Dow Chemical.

Our new polling with the Center for Climate Integrity finds that voters across party lines express strong support for litigation against these industries over their role in deceiving the public about the viability of plastic recycling, including 66% of Independents and 54% of Republicans.

After learning about the plastic waste crisis, voters strongly believe that the plastics (68%) and fossil fuel (59%) industries have a great deal of responsibility to address it. Once you learn about the giant garbage patch floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you too will want the CEOs of giant plastics companies to go out there in a ship and pick it up their damn selves.

Read the full poll here.

Iconic! Radiant! Amazing!

Can we have a moment of silence for all the trends that have gone out of style? Rest in peace to business casual at the club, our 2016 full-beat makeup looks, and those ugly hipster man buns.

But while fashion comes and goes, the largest climate investment in history will always be in vogue. Our new polling on the Inflation Reduction Act finds that she’s still the coolest girl in town — and with provisions that increase clean energy production, penalize oil and gas companies, and invest in pollution reduction, how could she not be?

Each of the major climate provisions of the IRA have support from a majority of voters, with the bill’s fair wage standards making the A-list.

And let’s not forget the health care components of the bill, like capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month and allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. These provisions all have support from at least 80% of voters.

Read the full poll here.

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