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Stop Acting Surprised

…too young to get in on the original crime spree, but otherwise, we’d have nothing to show for the trillions that would get spent. The supposed “rationale” for this bail-out…

Don’t savings lower the deficit?

…Justice Department trust fund for crime victims Both ideas officially “score” as savings that could be used to pay for spending elsewhere in the day-to-day budgets of domestic agencies. But…

Sensible Tax Reform

…labor and away from non-labor income. The payroll tax penalizes job creation. By extension it fosters the gray economy, welfare-dependency and crime. This was not a serious problem in (say)…

Thoughts on Detroit

…bad schools and rampant crime. The money that could have fixed some of those problems has been misdirected as best and outright stolen at worst. Why did it take so…

A Caveat, Walter Dellinger

by Beverly Mann originally posted at The Annarborist A Caveat, Walter Dellinger “In Skilling (ably explained by Paul’s posting), my law firm colleagues pressed the argument that the statutory crime