Check out this map of land values across the USA. The wealthy landowners with the most acreage tend to buy in areas with cheap land. Almost half of the cheap land in northern Maine is owned by just a few…
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Guns don’t kill people. Alcohol kills people.
Updated. Ok, so my title is goofy sloganeering, but it isn’t any goofier than the common slogan it is based upon. Although the US could certainly save lives by copying some of the gun restrictions that all other industrialized nations…
Posted in Public Finance, Violence & Peace
An unearned wealth tax would help stop rising inequality.
The main source of rising inequality in the US has been the rising incomes of the top 1% richest Americans relative to everyone else. Sure, the top 25% highest-income households have been doing fine, but their incomes haven’t been rising…
Posted in Inequality, Public Finance
The decline of news and news quality
Pew Research reported that “U.S. newspapers have shed half of their newsroom employees since 2008” While print news has lost 36,000 employees, other parts of “journalism” have only added 10,000 for a net loss of 26,000. The BLS predicts that…
Posted in Public Finance
When the police union fundraisers call, politely ask them what they think they should do about bad apples among the police. They will hang up as if you called them the N-word. Defund the police UNIONS.
I got two calls from police unions this week around supper time. Both times, the guy jabbered along on his script without listening as I asked repeatedly if I could say something. When I got to interrupt his pitch, I…
Posted in Public Finance
US primary elections are a crapfest. Time for some intelligent design.
Joe Biden has been the Democratic frontrunner for the entire 2020 primary until last week when Elizabeth Warren surged in the polls and briefly became the frontrunner. Her momentum made it look like she was going to demolish all the…
Posted in Pence2018, Public Finance
Big land
Bloomberg investigated the people that own the most land in America and this map of Maine speaks for itself: The report found that: The 100 largest owners of private property in the U.S., newcomers and old-timers together, have 40 million…
Posted in Public Finance
Medianism 