Republicans Have a Revenue Problem - The wisdom of Nate Silver

“It isn’t always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.”

~ Andrew O'Hagan

Governments don’t have a money problem—they have a “billionaires write the rules” problem. It’s like asking the fox to design the henhouse budget. And Germany? Still copying homework… badly.

Republicans Have a Revenue Problem Locked in its embrace of tax-cutting orthodoxy, the GOP has no credible way to address the country’s looming fiscal crisis.

Concrete consequences for GST crooks

Three individuals sentenced in June join the ranks of over 100 individuals sentenced to date under Operation Protego.

Tax parades custodial sentences for Operation Protego perpetrators

Convictions are finally coming for Australia’s biggest first-person tax con, with the ATO profiling GST fraud convictions.

In the federal court system, law clerks find little recourse for bullying and abuse

AG Bondi and President Trump Violate Precepts of Criminal Justice that DOJ Tax Knows and Gets Right 

I write today on a basic premise of the criminal justice system that Trump and his minions have misrepresented in a malevolent way. I contrast those misrepresentations with the way DOJ Tax Division (and other DOJ components) act more responsibly.

Australia may be passing a tax on unrealized capital gains

The wisdom of Nate Silver

The full Tic Tac 2010 report.  Here is one summary.  Here is a Grok summary.  I will read it when back home

 Curtis Yarvin profile (New Yorker)

A new and different attempt to summarize Proust

 Jessica Crispin has reemerged with a book on Michael Douglas and the crisis of masculinity (NYT)