Saturday, April 29, 2017

Links for 04/18/17

Links for 04/18/17: In the Washington Post, the most intelligent critic of Trump from the right,  Michael Gerson, assess the new president at the 100 day mark. Withering.

Former President Barack Obama will spe...

MGB: In business, you can hire yes-men and still go with your gut.  You can't do that as POTUS, especially if you are a novice.

Former Presidents have to charity fund their own libraries.  Pay for them with tax dollars and we will talk about former presidential financial ethics.  Does Obama have any solutions to give? Not sure, we will see what they do with the results of his talk.  It is definitely an artifact of being known.  People with real solutions that our from outside the mainstream never get an invite and rarely a byline - or a mention in other people;'s columns (not to shame our host too much).

Austerity led to Brexit.  It should be avoided at all cost.  If PR cannot tax high income effectively, it needs to tax wealthy land holdings effectively.  This case may make me a Georgist yet.

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