Friday, March 12, 2021

Tax Gap by Biden - Friends by Robin Dunbar review – how important are your pals?


The I.R.S. is often unable to detect or fight blatant tax cheating by the rich and big businesses. Restoring the missing revenue is a solution that pays for itself

~ Toowoon Bay - ABC


The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has revealed it is still owed hundreds of millions of dollars from companies that have attempted to rort the JobKeeper wage subsidy, were declared ineligible or were overpaid.

In an exclusive interview, ATO second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn told ABC News that while the agency had already rejected and clawed back millions of dollars' worth of coronavirus stimulus payments, its compliance action was ongoing.

JobKeeper and early super release rorts and overpayments on the rise


Wall Street Journal, The Billionaire Behind the Biggest U.S. Tax Fraud Case Ever Filed:

WSJProsecutors accused Robert Brockman, a litigious, sometimes penny-pinching software entrepreneur, of hiding $2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service. ...

[In] the largest criminal case ever brought against a person accused of evading U.S. taxes, [f]ederal prosecutors in October charged Mr. Brockman with using a web of offshore entities to concealabout $2 billion in income from the Internal Revenue Service.


 Originalism’s Original Sin Chronicle of Higher 


You may not have heard of Robin Dunbar. But you will, perhaps, know of his work. Dunbar, now emeritus professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University, is the man who first suggested that there may be a cognitive limit to the number of people with whom you can comfortably maintain stable social relationships – or, as Stephen Fry put it on the TV show QI, the number of people “you would not hesitate to go and sit with if you happened to see them at 3am in the departure lounge at Hong Kong airport”. Human beings, Dunbar found when he conducted his research in the 1990s, typically have 150 friends in general (people who know us on sight, and with whom we have a history), of whom just five can usually be described as intimate.

Friends by Robin Dunbar review – how important are your pals? Guardian


Cronkite signed off 40 years ago; it seems like an eon in news standards The Hill


The Dangers of Brain Science Overdetermining Legal Outcomes Literary Hub. Judge Jed Rakoff.


Originalism’s Original Sin Chronicle of Higher 


These sea slugs sever their own heads and regenerate new bodies Sky News


The Stocks Rotation Ride Is Real, and ViolentBloomberg


Google advised mental health care when workers complained about racism and sexism NBC


Google image search cements national stereotypes of ‘racy’ women Deutsche Welle