Favorites June 22 2021
Borrowing this from the @mattyglesias newsletter but it's funny that when Democracy got together a group of scholars to rewrite the constitution, they added a wealth tax but didn't do anything to clarify, say, the presidential line of succession beyond VP.
democracyjournal.org/magazine/61/a-…
Apparently law professors are not so good at designing workable tax law. I honestly didn't expect that.
The riddle contest sounds cool, but I think the new Forza may have more depth.
Income is not correlated at all with total Covid deaths, but income *inequality* is.
While intuitively this makes sense, this clear dichotomy was extremely surprising for me.
(By the way, there is almost no correlation between income and income inequality)
So, this is interesting, but I wonder if for some reason, income inequality correlates with population age in a way income itself doesn't.
“After departments unionized, there was a 'substantial increase' in police killings of civilians. Neither crime rates nor the safety of officers themselves was affected." @AdamSerwer on the problem with police unions, an excerpt from his upcoming book. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
I tend to agree with Yglesias at this point: we should increase police pay, and simultaneously get rid of police unions.
Burying power lines gets results
Land wars in asia…
