Big Spending on Personal Security Ignites Post-Jan. 6 Debate Over Members’ Budgets Politico – Sarah Ferris and Daniel Payne | Published: 4/16/2021 More than one third of the 17 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach or convict former President Trump used campaign funds to install security systems or hire private details within weeks of their votes, for a total of nearly $200,000 over the first three months of this year. [read post]

While consumption tax policy is a natural area for reaching those goals from a theoretical standpoint, this report shows that many governments have made choices that undermine the efficiency of a consumption tax system driven by economic principles. [read post]

  Courts wasted no time, however, in turning that presumption on its head, and creating something that the Restatement’s drafters had never contemplated, a presumption that whenever a warning was inadequate, any adequate alternative offered by the plaintiff would have been read and heeded. [read post]