You got me!

Why should they pay taxes when

- their vehicles never drive on any public highway

- they never call on public fire, police, or rescue departments

- they don't use the internet in any way

- they take no water from public water systems or use commercial services that do

- they never take a case to a public court

Don't they fly the American flag outside all of their stores? Maybe they consider that's enough patriotism. I've never shopped at a Wallmart, and don't ever expect to.

Yeah, screw that. Lynda.com is not the only game in town.

Screenplay by Horton Foote, after a story by Faulkner.

It is what it looks like. Also approaching third world status are our crumbling roads and bridges.

I agree with this . Institute the carbon tax at a rate which would allow elimination of the payroll tax, thus making the change revenue neutral.

Will electricians and plumbers be replaced by robots? I wouldn't bet on it.

Not sure if this would do me any good, but this is why I insist on getting paper bank statements ... so at least I have a record of what is in my accounts.

Isaiah Berlin: A Life, Author: Ignatieff, Michael

Escape into Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman's Extraordinary Survival During WW II, Author: Games, Sonia

Who Owns the Future, Author: Lanier, Jaron

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality, Author: Lanier, Jaron

Waking Up White, Author: Irving, Debby

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Author: Lanier, Jaron

Jaron Lanier proposed this a good while ago in his book, Who Owns the Future?

Read Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns the Future." (Be sure it's the paperback edition, which has an important Afterword.)

"Single payer sounds a whole lot better ..." Yeah, good luck with that. I hope Amazon et al shake up the "health care" industry. Making money on providing medical care should be illegal. It's certainly immoral in my book. The Europeans have good systems which provide good care at much less the cost than what we all pay. But here in "America First" we've got this huge insurance bureaucracy which is expensive ... all for the purpose of improving the bottom line for the insurance companies. So our insurance premiums go in part to pay the insurance companies to work to keep their payouts as low as possible. What a great system for them! What a lousy system for the patients. So if Amazon et al can come up with a system which delivers better care for less, good for them.

I'd love to see just a simple all-electric pickup truck.

Do you suppose Encyclopedia Britannica ever had 1300 editor-writers?