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The tax sharks are back and they’re coming for your home: Like picking pennies off a dead man’s eyes.
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The tax sharks are back and they’re coming for your home (permalink)
One of my weirder and more rewarding hobbies is collecting definitions of “conservativism,” and one of the jewels of that collection comes from Corey Robin’s must-read book The Reactionary Mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reactionary_Mind
Robin’s definition of conservativism has enormous explanatory power and I’m always finding fresh ways in which it clarifies my understand of events in the world: a conservative is someone who believes that a minority of people were born to rule, and that everyone else was born to follow their rules,