by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured, Health, Taxation
Last week, the GOP, realizing it didn’t have enough votes locked up, chose not to bring its health care bill (The American Health Care Act, or AHCA) up for a vote in the House. Facing monolithic opposition from the Democrats, the bill needed most of the House...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 12, 2017 | Taxation
The election of Donald Trump will, among other things, stave off, for now, the relentless and insatiable hunger that progressives have for dead people’s money. Hillary Clinton had, as part of her campaign platform, put forth a plan to both increase and modify...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 23, 2016 | Economics, Election, Politics, Taxation
There’s an old joke, about a man who propositions a woman. He asks, “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?” She says “Sure.” He replies, “OK, how about for twenty bucks?” Outraged, she responds “How dare you!...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 9, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Taxation
News that the Obama Administration was implementing some rule changes in order to increase revenue from estate taxes reminded me of an old quote: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 4, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation
This morning’s news includes a report that fantasy sports gambling is now legal in the state. This brings the number of states where one can play on-line fantasy sports, which for football alone is a market estimated at $70 billion, to forty. Fans of fantasy...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 10, 2016 | Drug Policy, Economics, Politics, Taxation
The murder of five police officers in Dallas, an atrocity rooted in the boiled-over tension between urban blacks and the police officers that watch over them, has created various firestorms of protest, counter-protest, and Internet virtue signaling (the last being the...
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