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4 December 2012

Killer-whale-submarine is awesome, baffling, singlehanded argument for progressive taxation

Climb in your metal Orca and breach the sea.

By Alex Hern

Things I learned over the weekend: 1) There is a magazine called Yacht Investor, which people read on trains out of Waterloo. 2) The sort of person who Invests in Yachts is also the target market for something called a Seabreacher, which has just launched “a new Orca model”.

Here is a video of the new Orca model:

The seabreacher costs “around $100,000”, and singlehandedly makes the argument for progressive taxation. I have no qualms about saying: If you own this, you have too much money.

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