Joel Gross's Blog

The comments are truly amazing.

Listen at MARX volume.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

Great example of regulatory capture. Regulatory capture could probably be stopped with laws preventing companies from hiring their regulators and from lobbying, but that has bad side effects too.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

I have put together the following full golf swing breakdown notes for myself to use in practice. It includes everything from distances, to warmup plan, to practice items, to methodology for grip, stance, backswing, transition, downswing, completion, and more. This is based on my research and watching hundreds of videos and reading lots of articles as well as my playing experience.… read more “Full Golf Swing Breakdown Notes For Practice”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21146745

Why can’t the US do high speed rail? Apparently in CA there was supposed to be an LA to SF train that went tens of billions overbudget even before any track was laid down. All the politicians and pigs gathered at the public trough and no one was willing to hire a Chinese or European train building company with actual experience.