FORBES magazine just released a splashy new cover photo, showing its “Titans of Philantrophy.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2012/09/18/inside-the-126-billion-forbes-cover/ The photo shows Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Pete Peterson, Leon Black, Jon Bon Jovi, Marc Benioff, David Rubenstein, Steve Case, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Marc Andreessen… and credits them with an estimated combined net worth of […]

Using taxes to ‘create’ jobs. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Or does it? Let’s say we encourage everyone to steal a tv set. Then, the victim’s insurance company will pay for the victim to buy a new one, causing more durable goods to be sold, thus bolstering the economy. Ridiculous, right? What is the difference in […]

Launch Blog, Category 3: Taxes and Economy   What if United Way ran the IRS? After getting shunned and booed at Occupy Wall Street protests, we recently have been treated to sit-ins of billionaires and Hollywood-types starting their own populist Movement, “Raise our taxes!” It’s a pretty easy thing to say when already you have […]