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How to save the planet

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Nov 192016
 

From a review of The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age (David Biello) by Matt Ridley in the Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2016: [T]he book leans toward the notion that the solution to our environmental challenges will come from technology, and in that sense [continue reading . . . ]

 Posted by Michael Parks at 10:42 am

Trumpian tax lessons

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Nov 042016
 

What The Donald’s apparent long-time avoidance of paying federal income tax or even much in the way of federal payroll taxes teaches us about the U.S. tax system, according to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D), as quoted in The New York Times Nov. 4: You work a shift in a [continue reading . . . ]

 Posted by Michael Parks at 1:27 pm

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