A six-minute read if you are interested in what the author is claiming. I envision this court as unusual when compared to other SCOTUS courts in the past. I agree with the author in his stating the Roberts court is not conservative in its decisions. Instead, those decisions are heavily skewed to a partisan belief […]
Some select facts about the Treasury Department Functions. This includes the size of it, currency, national banks, costs of tax collection, budget, etc. The latter of which make the Treasury the third largest department fund wise. Some interesting graphs depicting functions. What does the Department of the Treasury do? USAFacts Last month, a federal judge […]
It is bad enough as it is with the authorities going after people in public. Now politicians wish to “invade” schools in Arizona. Not that terrorizing people in libraries is acceptable either. And they would force teachers and others within the schools, etc. to fully cooperate by reporting on immigrants. One AZ State Senator wants […]
A well constructed government, at a minimum, provides its citizens FDR’s four freedoms: A good well constructed government would want what is best for the society or nation as a whole; understand that a healthy, well fed, well housed, well educated society or nation with a stable quality government is best. A well constructed, healthy […]
Having gone from trump to Biden. a person who I thought would never make a good president makes Steve’s argument on Bad Government being the problem when trump was the president. Asymptosis » Government is Not the Problem. Bad Government is the Problem, Steve Roth. And the solution to bad government is … good government. […]
J.P. at J.P. McJefferson blog took up a rather interesting conversation with AI/ChatGPT. J.P. McJefferson: Chatting With AI On Better Government, jpmcjefferson.blogspot.com. ME What ideas do you have for improving U.S. governmental decision-making? ChatGPT Improving U.S. governmental decision-making is a multifaceted challenge that involves addressing various aspects of the political process. Here are some ideas […]
I can’t get past just how juvenile the thought is that if you just let the markets be the markets, they’ll solve everything. And if profit is your only metric, man, what are you building? David Simon This is the first part of an interview with David Simon. He is a “journalist and creator of the […]
CBS Marketwatch Devalues their Brand. Kash views the carnage: Despite all the rhetoric and posturing we see in the media and in Washington D.C., it is safe to say categorically that the U.S. Treasury will not default on its debt after August 2nd, even if the debt ceiling is not raised. Not only will the […]
Anyone who has ever worked with data knows that making certain the information is “clean” is much more important than what you do with it. Brilliant analysis of inaccurate data may make heroes (Chamley, Prescott, etc.), but it doesn’t make sensible policy. Witness the release of “public” data from the state of Texas. Jeremy once […]
Economists’s claims that taxes should not be paid by corporations is based on the premise that government should be relatively inefficient and/or run a deficit in perpetuity. Discuss.