The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Here
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 28th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Here
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
The Dangers of Ebola Quarantines
Dems Desperately Seeking the Gender Gap
Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Even Mitch McConnell—running against a woman—is running even among women. What’s going on? Simple. The Democratic women aren’t motivated.
No Such Thing as an Easy Win for GOP
Kirsten Powers, USA Today
We’re All Flies in the IRS’s Widening Web
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The New York Times has a disturbing article on asset seizures by the Internal Revenue Service. To summarize: There is a rule requiring banks to report cash transactions over $10,000. This facilitates the detection and prosecution of tax cheats and drug dealers. A lot of paperwork is involved, which banks don’t like, so perfectly legitimate people frequently structure their deposits to get around the requirement. This sort of structuring is also illegal, and when the IRS suspects it’s happening, then poof! They take your account. The people who are profiled by the Times are small…