The current conflict in Washington, dealing with the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, is the much anticipated, frequently promised, but poorly defined ‘infrastructure bill’. As it stands, two versions are possible – one preferred by centrist Democrats and a few moderate Republicans that… Read More »Infrastructure Problems Exacerbated by a Poor System of Taxation
I wrote the below article five years ago. Though time has passed, the issue of minimum wage continues to impact our political landscape, our economic landscape and our social landscape. Original article: Minimum wage laws have a superficial appeal, but are much less effective than… Read More »Replace Minimum Wages with the Earned Income Tax Credit
After working in California for four years, I returned home to Montana in June of 2017, and jumped into planning my wedding to my then-fiance’ that August in our hometown of Helena. We lived in Utah for a school year – she was teaching art,… Read More »Californians Leaving for Greener Pastures
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about land, and the only just and lasting solution is an equal ownership of the land. This cannot be an equal possession of land, but the benefit of land is fungible, i.e. divisible. That benefit can be measured by what people… Read More »The Only Just Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
In the wake of George Floyd’s death and Derek Chauvin’s conviction for murder, the debate over whether and to what extent policing should be reformed in this country is, understandably, top-of-mind. However, the debate as currently framed shows little promise of being productive. The debate… Read More »Policing Reform: A Broader Perspective
The solution to the problem of police misconduct requires a radical restructuring, not just of the police, but also of the political and economic infrastructure that propagates social problems. The current social structure is that a mass of people, swayed by misleading propaganda, elect officials… Read More »Restructuring the Police
Simon Winchester begins his new book, “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World” by giving the history of the first land parcel he ever bought -123 acres of a forested and rocky mountainside in rural New York. When English explorer Henry Hudson… Read More »Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World – Book Review
In a recent article in The Week, “Is Biden setting Harris up to fail?,” it was clearly stated and debated that immigration is a political battle that is tough to win. Appointing Vice President Kamala Harris the point person on immigration issue doesn’t set Ms.… Read More »Immigration: Stopping History From Repeating Itself
There’s a lot to love about RSF, but the thing I appreciate most is its fundamental autonomy. Having spent most of my career with much larger organizations, many of which were baked into almost inconceivably large matrices of federal and state grants and regulations, or… Read More »No Brainer
Why can’t the economy have steady growth and prosperity instead of cyclically falling into recessions and depressions? We can have sustainable growth if we eliminate the cause of the bust. There is one fundamental, though mostly unrecognized, cause of the boom and bust economic cycle:… Read More »How to Prevent the Boom and Bust Cycle
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