by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 9, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
Get on an airplane. Work at a government job. Enter a government building. Open a checking, savings, brokerage, or retirement account. Apply for a credit card, loan, or mortgage. Apply for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, food stamps, or other government...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 8, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Back in 1969, bureaucrats testified to Congress that 155 high earners had managed to work their tax returns to where they paid no income tax… in one specific year. Anyone who understands the vagaries of business investing, capital gains and losses, tax loss...
by Peter Venetoklis | Oct 7, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
This past week, China rattled a few sabers over Taiwan. Almost literally, in that China sent several dozen military jets into Taiwan’s defense zone as part of a celebration of the PRC’s founding. Much huffing and puffing ensued, along with the inevitable...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Opinion, Politics
Time and again, I hear the same refrain. My concerns, warnings, and accusations regarding the advent of socialist thinking and policy in America is baseless, or ill-founded, or a Fox News talking point regurgitation, or paranoia, or petulance. Simultaneously, I bear...
by Peter Venetoklis | Sep 16, 2021 | Economics, Election, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
There will come a day, though it might not come for a long time, when Trump’s presidency is assessed rationally rather than emotionally. When the tweets and rhetoric have faded to irrelevance and insignificant footnote, and the focus placed on policies and...
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