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    How the rich (and their kids) avoid paying taxes … forever

    David Crook
    August 30, 2019

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    For the richest Americans, Democrats want to shift toward taxing their wealth, instead of just their salaries and the income their assets generate, reports The Wall Street Journal. The personal income tax indirectly touches wealth, but only when assets are sold and become income. At the end of 2017, U.S. households had $3.8 trillion in unrealized gains in stocks and investment funds, plus more in real estate, private businesses and artwork, according to the Economic Innovation Group, a nonprofit focused on bringing investment to low-income areas. Most of the value of estates over $100 million consists of unrealized gains. Much has never been touched by individual income taxes and may never be.


    The problem, Democrats say, is that capital gains are taxed only when gains are realized through a sale and become income. An investor who buys $10 million in stock that pays no dividend and watches it grow to $50 million doesn’t pay income tax on that appreciation unless the stock is sold.

    If an investor dies before selling, the unrealized gains get wiped out, for income-tax purposes. The heirs treat the assets’ cost basis as $50 million, not $10 million; they face no income tax on the $40 million of capital gains if they sell, although an estate tax may be due. This long-standing elimination of unrealized gains at death, for tax purposes, is called “stepped-up basis.”

    It means the optimal tax strategy for the very rich, fine-tuned and promoted by the wealth-planning industry, is straightforward: Hold assets until death, borrow against them for living expenses and barely pay income taxes.

    Prying Eyes on This Side of the Border

    On the southwestern end of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation, roughly 1 mile from a barbed-wire barricade marking Arizona’s border with the Mexican state of Sonora, stands a small black mast-mounted with cameras and sensors is positioned on a trailer hitched to the truck. The Border Patrol’s monitoring of the reservation has been a grim aspect of everyday life, reports The Intercept. And that surveillance is about to become far more intrusive.

    The vehicle is parked where U.S. Customs and Border Protection will soon construct a 160-foot surveillance tower capable of continuously monitoring every person and vehicle within a radius of up to 7.5 miles. The tower will be outfitted with high-definition cameras with night vision, thermal sensors, and ground-sweeping radar, all of which will feed real-time data to Border Patrol agents at a central operating station in Ajo, Arizona. The system will store an archive with the ability to rewind and track individuals’ movements across time — an ability known as “wide-area persistent surveillance.”

    CBP plans 10 of these towers across the Tohono O’odham reservation, which spans an area roughly the size of Connecticut. Fueled by the growing demonization of migrants, as well as ongoing fears of foreign terrorism, the U.S. borderlands have become laboratories for new systems of enforcement and control. Firsthand reporting, interviews, and a review of documents for this story provide a window into the high-tech surveillance apparatus CBP is building in the name of deterring illicit migration — and highlight how these same systems often end up targeting other marginalized populations as well as political dissidents.

    Insurance Companies Encourage Ransomware Attacks

    Ransomware is proliferating across America, disabling computer systems of corporations, city governments, schools and police departments. This month, attackers seeking millions of dollars encrypted the files of 22 Texas municipalities. Overlooked in the ransomware spree is the role of an industry that is both fueling and benefiting from it: insurance. In recent years, cyber insurance sold by domestic and foreign companies has grown into an estimated $7 billion to $8 billion-a-year market in the U.S. alone. While insurers do not release information about ransom payments, ProPublica has found that they often accommodate attackers’ demands, even when alternatives such as saved backup files may be available. The FBI and security researchers say paying ransoms contributes to the profitability and spread of cybercrime and in some cases may ultimately be funding terrorist regimes. But for insurers, it makes financial sense, industry insiders said. It holds down claim costs by avoiding expenses such as covering lost revenue from snarled services and ongoing fees for consultants aiding in data recovery. And, by rewarding hackers, it encourages more ransomware attacks, which in turn frighten more businesses and government agencies into buying policies.

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    WATCH: CPAC crowd erupts in jeers and boos after hosts ask them to wear masks

    Sky Palma
    February 26, 2021

    In between speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this Friday, two hosts were shouted down after they asked the audience to abide by the hotel's rules and wear masks.

    "I know this might sound like a little bit of a downer, but we also believe in property rights, and this is a private hotel," American Conservative Union (ACU) executive director Dan Schneider told the crowd. "And we believe in the rule of law and we need to comply with the laws of this county that we're in, and a private hotel just like your own house gets to set its own rules.

    That's when he asked CPAC Director Carly Conley to finish making his point.

    "Well, as Dan mentioned, we are in a private facility and we do want to be respectful of the ordinances that they have as their private property, so please everyone, when you're in the ballroom, when you're seated, you should still be wearing a mask," Conley said.

    At that moment, jeers started to emanate from the crowd.

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    If you think Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuts, you should meet her dad

    Travis Gettys
    February 26, 2021

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's father might have even wackier beliefs than his notoriously conspiratorial congresswoman daughter.

    The newly elected Georgia Republican promoted the right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory and others before entering politics, but her father Robert D. Taylor published a 600-page novel Paradigm to reveal his own "revolutionary" theory -- which he called "The Taylor Effect" -- to unlocking the mysteries of the stock market, reported Politico.

    "What is tomorrow's Wall Street Journal worth to you today?" Taylor wrote about his 2006 book in promotional materials. "Where is the line between reality and fiction? Are the financial markets really predictable? Does an ancient artifact hold the key to how some of the world's wealthiest families made their fortunes?"

    The book was published the same year his son-in-law Perry Greene, the congresswoman's husband, acquired full control of the construction company Taylor founded around 1970, and presents Taylor's theory that stock market dynamics can be predicted by "gravitational fluctuations."

    "The back of his book goes into great scientific detail with supportive data," wrote reviewer Bill McDonald, of the Military Writers Society of America. "What you really have is a great action thriller novel for 80 percent of this book followed by an equally interesting non-fiction appendage at the end of the book with Taylor's economic theories. It is a combination that causes one to lose track of what is fiction and what is real in the story."

    McDonald compared the novel to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, but Taylor's own description of the theory's reliance on intricate dials, gauges, crystals and carvings sound like something out of Charles Portis' hilarious Masters of Atlantis.

    "[Paradigm] is a unique and masterful blend of intelligent scientific suspense and bold historical mystery stretching from earliest antiquity to the present day-and beyond," Taylor wrote about the novel himself. "His intriguing plot and cast of memorable characters makes for a suspenseful pager-turn that will keep readers guessing about where the lines of reality and fiction merge."

    Taylor was so impressed with his eponymous theory that he claimed it had been nominated for the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics, which a Nobel spokesperson was unable to confirm to Politico.

    "Information about nominations is not to be disclosed, publicly or privately, for a period of 50 years," the spokesman said.

    Amazon reviewers were not quite as effusive in their praise as McDonald or Taylor, who one reader complained went silent when challenged on his theory.

    "I would invite anyone to compare historical tidal data in the locations outlined with the conclusions presented in the book - they do not match," wrote reviewer EMT in a 2011 one-star review. "When I confronted the author with this fact, the reply was that he was too busy to look into my query - but he was pretty available when it came to recommend buying his book in the first place. This to me suggests intellectual fraud, in the sense that the results are clearly not what the book purports them to be, and no willingness by the author in addressing them."

    Other readers complained about the plot and characters, and felt Taylor's theory intruded too heavily.

    "If not for a plot based on 2 dimensional yuppies straight out of the 80's, on whom a page-turner can sometimes sneak by, then definitely it's a plot entirely dependent on the unbelievably persistent wrong choices of the dumbest smart people you could invent," wrote pb in a 2018 one-star review.

    The GOP is now the Soviet Communist Party circa 1979 — and headed for a similar fate: conservative

    Alex Henderson, AlterNet
    February 26, 2021

    Many Never Trump conservatives were hoping that after former President Donald Trump left the White House on January 20 and President Joe Biden entered the White House, the Republican Party would abandon Trumpism and return to a more traditional conservatism. Instead, the GOP has doubled down on its extremism; even Rep. Liz Cheney — arch-conservative daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney — is being slammed as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) by Trumpistas. Never Trumper Tom Nichols examines the state of the Republican Party in an article published by The Atlantic on February 25, arguing that the 2021 GOP is — like the Soviet Communist Party circa 1978/1979 — destined for collapse.

    "The Republican Party has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s," the conservative Nichols laments. "I can already hear the howls about invidious comparisons. I do not mean that modern American Republicans are communists. Rather, I mean that the Republicans have entered their own kind of end-stage Bolshevism, as members of a party that is now exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own ideology, authoritarian by reflex, controlled as a personality cult by a failing old man, and looking for new adventures to rejuvenate its fortunes."

    In the late 1970s, Nichols explains, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev — was "a spent force" run by "party ideologues" who stubbornly clung to Marxist-Leninist dogma. Brezhnev's cronies, Nichols recalls, considered him a "heroic genius."

    "Members of the Communist Party who questioned anything, or expressed any sign of unorthodoxy, could be denounced by name, or more likely, simply fired," Nichols notes. "They would not be executed — this was not Stalinism, after all — but some were left to rot in obscurity in some make-work exile job, eventually retiring as a forgotten 'comrade pensioner.' The deal was clear: pump the party's nonsense and enjoy the good life, or squawk and be sent to manage a library in Kazakhstan. This should all sound familiar."

    Just as the Marxist-Leninist ideologues of the late 1970s rallied around Brezhnev, Nichols argues, the Republican Party of 2021 is rallying around Trump.

    "Falling in line, just as in the old Communist Party, is rewarded, and independence is punished," Nichols observes. "The anger directed at Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger makes the stilted ideological criticisms of last century's Soviet propagandists seem almost genteel by comparison. At least Soviet families under Brezhnev didn't add three-page handwritten denouncements to official party reprimands."

    The Soviet Communist Party didn't collapse in 1978 or 1979, but it did collapse in the early 1990s — even Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reforms of the 1980s couldn't save the Soviet Union, which no longer exists. Modern-day Russia is now ruled by a right-wing authoritarian, President Vladimir Putin, and embraces crony capitalism and corporate oligarchs rather than communism. And according to Nichols, the Republican Party of the United States is, like the old Soviet Communist Party, terminally ill.

    But the more marginal the GOP becomes in the months ahead, Nichols predicts, the more dangerously authoritarian it will become.

    "A dying party can still be a dangerous party," Nichols warns. "The Communist leaders in those last years of political sclerosis arrayed a new generation of nuclear missiles against NATO, invaded Afghanistan, tightened the screws on Jews and other dissidents, lied about why they shot down a civilian 747 airliner, and, near the end, came close to starting World War III out of sheer paranoia. The Republican Party is, for now, more of a danger to the United States than to the world. But like the last Soviet-era holdouts in the Kremlin, its cadres are growing more aggressive and paranoid."

    In 2021, Nichols laments, the GOP has passed the point of no return and can only sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.

    "Another lesson from all this history is that the Republicans have no path to reform," Nichols writes. "Like their Soviet counterparts, their party is too far gone. Gorbachev tried to reform the Soviet Communist Party, and he remains reviled among the Soviet faithful to this day. Similar efforts by the remaining handful of reasonable Republicans are unlikely to fare any better. The Republican Party, to take a phrase from the early Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, should now be deposited where it belongs: in the 'dustbin of history.'"

     
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