Clearing the Tabs June 30, 2023

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July  15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 17
Fox Severed Ties With Tucker Carlson Because Fox Is the Star

The weather isn’t ‘climate change’

June 18

Laurence Jones raised $52 at his own lynching. Why don’t you know who he is?

California’s emissions regulatory death spiral

June 20
An Empowered IRS Implies the Funding of Force at the Expense of Choice

Solving the Global Housing Crisis
The worldwide lack of affordable housing can only be resolved politically.

June 21
The rise of the liberal apostate
They are far more compelling than the likes of DeSantis

To reduce costs, California also needs to build new suburbs

June 23
The Most Important Decision in Life

Let Them Eat Solar Panels
Ex-Im’s $900 million loan for a solar project in Angola is green colonialism

Fire Frenzy: Setting the Record Straight on the Canadian Fires

June 25
Finding grace and hope in W.Va. coal country, where others see only decay

Next Up For Suburban Urbanism

June 27
Ford Latest Automaker to Institute Layoffs amid Electric-Vehicle Push: Report

Clearing the Tabs December 15, 2021

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on December 31 as well to round out the year. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

December 1

Own Nothing and Love It
An unholy alliance of planners, financiers, and leftists wants everyone to live in mass social housing developments.

December 2
The great nudge
Government, Big Tech and the media are all trying to nudge us into adopting the ‘right’ behaviour.

When You Can’t Change the World, Change Your Feelings
Adjusting your attitude is easier than you think.

December 3
Do Sidewalks Make Us More Social?

December 4
IRS data prove 2017 tax cuts benefited middle class the most

December 5
3 Questions about Regeneration

Horses, bourbon and a lot of luck

December 6
Work or Welfare?

Divesting in Crude Oil Guarantees Shortages and Inflation

December 7
A Conflict of Visions within Conservatism

Manchin and Sinema Hold the Key for Democrats: Respecting Regional Difference

December 10
The Way Out

Unicorns Can Grow Here, But Are There Enough Tech Workers?

December 11
This small town likes it that way

December 12
What Are the Real Third Places?
Civil society depends on places that are neither workplaces nor homes. New research on how they’ve fared during the pandemic shows which ones matter most to people.

December 13
Our Neo-Feudal Future

December 15
The new Dark Ages
The woke assault on Western civilisation is taking us backwards.

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Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2021

June 1
All This for 1.8 Percent Growth?

June 3
A Middle Class Rebellion Against Progressives Is Gaining Steam

Joe Biden's Plan for a Fatter, Meaner IRS (Podcast)

June 8
Suburbs are not less social than cities

How to fight climate change and put pressure on China

June 10
The 1980s Called, And It Wants Its Industrial Paranoia Back

June 12
Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left

June 15
The Killing of Kern County

Do we really need 5,100 more IRS agents?

A brief editorial in the Wall Street Journal should make you ask a few questions, after your skin stops crawling:

President Obama's fiscal 2012 budget doesn't cut much of anything (see above), and certainly not the Internal Revenue Service. The White House is requesting that the most beloved of all government agencies get an additional 5,100 agents next year, no doubt to wring further tax revenue from Americans. The White House wants to give the IRS a 9.4% raise in fiscal 2012, to $13.28 billion. Reuters reports this would allow for a roughly 5% increase in agency manpower to 100,537, including $460 million more for tax enforcement than in 2010.

I'm not for more government, but I will advocate for a big government idea to make a larger point.

What if instead of hiring 5,100 new IRS agents, the government instead gave 5,100 people $500,000 under the watchful eye of the Small Business Administration, and let them go out and create real jobs, and real wealth in America? We could play with the numbers one way or the other, at the high end this is $2.5 Billion. $250,000 instead would be $1.25 Billion. Something like that would be a real stimulus, not creating more government workers.