We have spent just about the entirety of the nascent Donald Trump Administration imploring them to rid themselves of every single Barack Obama Administration holdover they can identify. And that they dedicate specific staff members – who spend their entire time identifying Obama Administration holdovers. The incoming Trump Administration represents a nigh 180 degree reversal […]
“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld exquisitely captured Man’s inherent inconsistency to Man. Hand in hand with hypocrisy – goes rationalization. Which an exchange in the flick “The Big Chill” aptly describes thus: Michael: “Don’t knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don’t know anyone who can […]
I have long liked former Texas Congressman, Senator and presidential candidate Phil Gramm. I in fact voted for him in the 1996 Republican presidential primary. The one time I got to meet him – years thereafter, at a UBS event (with whom he’d landed a post-politics gig) – I told him I had cast a […]
As someone who for a living follows Washington, D.C. and its denizens – I have developed a pretty high threshold for hypocrisy. Perhaps part of it is innate – I was born just outside of DC, so maybe being so close to the source puts something in the water that inoculates you. No matter how […]
Congress hasn’t done major tax reform since 1986. We are WAY past due. And it is WAY past necessary. The current tax code is an economy-stifling combination of sky-high rates – and stupid mandates and stipulations. Most of what our government has ensconced in tax law – works to drive businesses out of business and […]
President Donald Trump became President Donald Trump because he saw a whole host of naked emperors – and publicly pointed out the dearth of respective wardrobes. Establishment Washington, D.C. has spent decades pretending a whole host of things labeled “A” – are “Not A.” We the People were tired of DC lying to us – […]
I loathe taxes. I loathe the concept of anything or anyone having mandated access to the money I earn. They didn’t get up at 4:10am to go to the gym – so as to be able to begin work at 6am. Day after day, every day – for years and years. Why do they get […]
It is certainly understandable that the Donald Trump presidency has left Google – oops, I mean Alphabet – more than a mite discombobulated. Google has just spent the last eight years all-but-running the Barack Obama Administration. Google people visited the Obama White House at least 427 times. Dozens of key Google staffers – transmogrified into […]
Our nation’s tax code is a nightmare mess of thorny brambles. Interwoven with other thorny brambles. Behind a high wall of thorny brambles. It is anti-citizen. And it is anti-anything-productive citizens choose to do – up to and especially including engaging in anything having to do with business. Many, many facets of our tax code […]
One of the many aspects of the very anti-free trade “free trade” to which we have for decades been subjected – is the massive intellectual property (IP) theft conducted by China and other nations. China alone steals more than $360 billion worth per annum – and has been doing so for decades. About which we […]