New Orleans Arguments are scheduled before the US Supreme Court in the case of Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association on the issue of whether or not unions have the right to collect fair share payments under union shop agreements for public employees in the California school system. Fair share payments are not dues, but an …
Month: January 2016
Moving Money with the Migrants – Hawala Style
New Orleans Given all of the trials and tribulations connected to the tales of the migrants streaming north from the Middle East to escape war and violence, it is good to see the hawala system for safely and inexpensively transferring money getting some attention. One of the ironies of the predatory remittance or money transfer …
IRS, Among Others, Catching Too Many on Other Side of Internet Divide
New Orleans The IRS has problems. I get that. Well hated as a necessary evil, the Republican Congress has cut their budget to the nub in recent years to make it harder to collect taxes. In the 2015 tax season millions rightly complained that they had a better chance of talking to Santa Claus long …