IRS to start collecting photos of taxpayers
UPDATE FEB 7 – 2022: IRS abandons plan to use facial recognition to access one’s tax records. The collection will be outsourced to a third party “identify verification” service. Starting…
Electric cars appears to create sales tax boom for states
Many are priced in the $70,000 to $100,000 (or even higher) price range. If EVs sell in quantities – government mandates will likely force that in the years ahead –…
Federal unemployment rate now 3.9%
In January 2022, politicians are seeking a continued ban on evictions of those not paying rent. Depending on where you live (typically a Blue state), the moratoriums may be extended…
China scans western web sites and social media as part of surveillance network
Including this blog: Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and the military are gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived…
UK SAGE Disease Modeler only models worst case scenarios
Hmmmmm: My Twitter conversation with the chairman of the Sage Covid modelling committee | The Spectator This UK disease modeler says he only models worst case – and does not…
Study finds automated license plate readers are ineffective
“Analyzing sixteen years of stolen vehicle numbers from Piedmont, California—a “super user” of ALPRs—this report finds no statistical evidence that ALPRs have deterred motor theft. Moreover: There is an absence…
Omicron travel bans make no sense
I made this chart on Nov 30th Dec 1st, and it is up to date as of that day. As of Dec 3, there are 38 countries with confirmed cases,…
What? Government spending will lower inflation
She just disqualified her self – it does not work this way – at all: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNBC on Friday that the administration’s infrastructure spending proposal will…
California sea ports among least efficient in the world
Have you noticed that the media is incapable of using the word infrastructure without prefacing it “crumbling“? English should be like German and just combine the words into one: crumblinginfrastructure!…
No it isn’t: Missouri governor says viewing HTML source code containing private data the state published on every page, is a crime
Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security…