Yes, I said the “R’ word. In order to persuade folks about the problems of “inequality” it would of course be nice to:
I was going to write about a particularly hard conundrum regarding rent and the 5th amendment, but that’ll have to wait until next week, I am sure you are eagerly waiting for it.
Great post. Indeed, I am eagerly awaiting!
From today’s local paper…
‘Seligman warned the audience that racism would “quietly and insidiously” strengthen if the country didn’t renew its passion for fighting inequality…”This is a quest that must never end,” he said.’
Godspeed to you, WC.
Also, you should probably be sending a big thank you to Chuckie Schumer. The FDA is ‘backing down’ from illegalizing the exchange of spent grains between brewers and farmers.
Write up bogus legislation and create heroes by publicly opposing the silliness. A very good strategy.
Maybe the USGA could administer the inequality apparatus. Everybody who turned in twenty annual gross earned income scores. Then, when people went out to dinner together, the low handicappers would have to give the high handicappers $trokes. Each restaurant would get a “course rating”. Two couples could play a Nassau, one bet on the appetizer, the main course, and dessert. Play the food as it lies; relief from movable obstructions; the plugged ball rule.
I should have said embedded ball.
So, my opponent gives me eight $hots a side, one for the cole slaw, one for the creamed spinach, one for the Lyonaisse potatoes, one for the relish. If a $hot is worth a carbon credit, that adds up to a lot just for the vegetables, and pretty soon I am as rich as the low-handicapper, and maybe better than a SNAP card.
WC, I look forward to your discussion of rent and the fifth amendment, which I assume is not the part Lois Lerner was talking about, but rather the the takings clause; Senator Joe Biden, when questioning David Souter, observed that if that clause was followed strictly then the whole socialist applecart would spill, as in we could never afford paying for regulatory takings and all the other stuff we have done to give property to the state.
I am guessing what WC might write.