Author: Joel Gross

Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.

Frustrating tax scam

Our tax dollars usually end up in scams like this – https://www.foxnews.com/politics/misspelled-learning-center-no-children-inside-emmer-presses-walz-over-minnesota-daycare-tied-4m, simply because no government official really cares – it is not their money after all. This is why it is so important to keep government as small as possible; government is always far more wasteful than you would be with your money.

Washington State Income Tax Foolishness

Do you want to give another 10% of your income to the fools in Olympia who are already wasting $7,700 of your money each year? Are you happy with your police protection? With the condition of our roads and infrastructure for that money? We should be getting far better services for such an enormous chunk of our earnings.
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The Seattle Times is a Far Left Propaganda Mouthpiece

One of the most striking things about moving from a world of building things to a world of watching things is how much the incentives for honesty have changed. In the startup world, if you lie to yourself about your product, the market corrects you. You go out of business. But in local media, especially in a city like Seattle, there is no such correction.… read more “The Seattle Times is a Far Left Propaganda Mouthpiece”

The 10,000-Generation Debt

The most important thing to understand about history is that it isn’t a story; it’s a filter. If you’re alive today, you are the beneficiary of an unbroken chain of success stretching back to the beginning of the species. For ten thousand generations, your ancestors did the hardest thing a living creature can do: they survived long enough to reproduce.… read more “The 10,000-Generation Debt”