Welcome to My Blog
I’m a retired legislative analyst who worked for the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives for over 40 years. WARNING: if you stumble on this blog and decide to read it, my posts are often long and always boring. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
I write mainly about the issues that I worked on:
- Individual income taxes
- Corporate income taxes
- Tax exempt bonds
- Tax increment financing
- Tax expenditures
- Pensions and retirement plan financing
- State and local government finance
- Legislative process and related legal issues
Books I’ve Read Recently – Furious Minds
This is another in my series of bad high school book reports on selected nonfiction books that I have read recently. I write them to memorialize my thoughts in the vain hope that I will remember a bit more of what I read. Author and book Laura K. Field, Furious Minds The Making of the…
Books I’ve Read Recently – Capitalism and Its Critics
This is another in my series of bad high school book reports on selected nonfiction books that I have read recently. I write them to memorialize my thoughts in the vain hope that I will remember a bit more of what I read. Author and book John Cassidy, Capitalism and Its Critics (Farrar, Straus and…
More questions
It looks like the anti-weaponization fund may be dead (or it might just be temporarily comatose), confirming that my political predictions are usually wrong. Some combination of the courts and a handful of congressional Republicans growing a bit of a spine may have done the trick. Or maybe not. Here are some excerpts from the…
Nice Try
This is yet another update on Trump v. IRS. The district court dismissed the suit after the plaintiffs filed a notice exercising their right to do so (with prejudice) before the defendants had made an appearance. The court went out of its way to make it clear that: Because the Notice does not reference any…
Audit Immunity
The speculation proved correct. A one-page addendum to the “settlement agreement”1 of Trump v. IRS, washed away the ongoing tax audits of Trump, the family businesses, and Eric and Don Jr., as well as any potential audits for tax returns filed before May 19, 2026 (gee, I wonder if they filed for extensions for tax…
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