by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 26, 2016 | Election, Taxation
There’s an old joke that goes “There are two types of people in the world – those who divide people into two types and those who don’t.” It mocks the common practice of bifurcating people, things, ideas and the like into binary...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 28, 2015 | Culture, Taxation
Eric Schneiderman, New York State’s Attorney General, recently made headlines by announcing that he considered the services provided by fantasy sport sites such as Draft Kings and FanDuel to be games of chance rather than skill and therefore illegal under state...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 6, 2014 | Culture, Taxation
One of my favorite things about the movie Excalibur, an absolutely gorgeous telling of the King Arthur legend by John Boorman, is the utterly unapologetic bombast with which the actors deliver their lines. In an early scene, a young Arthur, squiring for his brother at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 22, 2014 | Culture, Politics, Taxation
Daffy Duck, occasional philosopher and sporadic commenter on the human condition, helped himself to a vast hoard of treasure that he and Bugs Bunny came across while ]tunneling their way to Pismo Beach](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050111/). Along the way, he...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 8, 2013 | Drug Policy, Taxation
The nation is moving, in fits and starts, baby steps and backslides, towards legalizing marijuana. Why pot became illegal and has remained so for 75 years is a head-shaking and toe-curling story that few are aware of, a story full of lies, hysteria, ignorance and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Nov 1, 2013 | Taxation
I came across a bit I wrote back in 2003, that I dubbed “Billionaire Socialists:” What’s with all the billionaire socialists? Bill Gates’ dad said some time ago that the rich should be taxed higher, Mike Bloomberg is hell-bent on not only...
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