HoltesThoughts

Suggestions: Gross versus Net Taxation Taxes should not fall on a person's basic expenses [gross not net] Allow people to deduct food, s...

Madison defined Tyranny as: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a fe...

Last night I was browsing twitter, trying to bore myself to sleep, and instead I ran into articles about people being grabbed off the stre...

In an article titled: Post-Roger Stone: Ten ideas for repairing Trump’s justice system By Jennifer Rubin, She writes: “President Trump gra...

Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench In a research article published by Reuters: (https://www.reuters.co...

Reform Emergency Response. I've been listening to people talk about reforming the police and they all have good ideas. Som...

Governor Cuomo is calling for the reorganizing of our disjointed and dysfunctional health service into a National Health System. This would...

And Healthcare There is a lane for social goods and there is a lane for private goods. Henry George made the distinction based on whether ...

I am incredibly worried about #Trumpenfuhrer and his power. If we hope to fix our immigration mess, it has to start with recognizing that t...

Analogy to Disease an Introduction If you've seen these arguments before, forgive me and skip to the next title. I wash my dishes cons...

In my last few posts I quoted from Justice Roberts Majority decision in the McCutcheon Case [http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-...

Why property is not an absolute right. The wealthy love the right to property. To them it ought to be unlimited so they can take property...

Roberts in his MCCUTCHEON v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMM’N decision asserts: “Moreover, while preventing corruption or its appearance is a legiti...

The McCutcheon case seems to reflect the fact that the Supreme Court is starting to wake up to the undue influence that their corrupt decisi...

Citizens United hinged on a Huge Error in Judgment The problem with the Citizens United case, as I noted in my post from October last year...