Where has all the money gone? "Illinois saw a massive $1.76 billion drop in actual personal income tax collections during April 2023 compared to April 2022. Lower year-over-year revenues were expected as the effects of federal stimulus activity dissipated. State forecasters built that drop into their projections, but they were still way off – by $986 million."
The weekly round-up of pithy elaborations of traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. AMERIKA, ERWACHE! No irony from Robert Reich. "Take to the streets, if necessary, to defend our democracy."
2. Take care of your business. "It's time for all reasonable people to just stop consuming garbage products when company executives presume to lecture them."
3. What it means to be dumb? "Whether we like it or not, the way commodities are produced under capitalism will always require struggle between the classes; workers want more, capitalists want them to have less and less."
4. Diminished expectations. "Equitable education is really its own form of bigotry." Diminished lives. "Chicago’s kids are set up for failure–crime, violence and prison."
6. Give emergence a chance. "Many of the things we expect from the state are not public goods. They could be more efficiently and effectively handled by other kinds of cooperation."
7. Going tribal in the Cities. "This kind of violence is the inevitable end of ignoring basic cultural assimilation and pushing racially divisive messaging in order to win elections." It's on the country to buy into the new arrivals and on the new arrivals to buy into the country.
8. Hidden meanings at KKG. "Wyoming sorority sisters 'live in fear' of transgender member."
9. Red-on-pink sororicide! "Transphobic messages seen around [Madison] are the work of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists, also known as TERFS."
10. Minds so open you could fly a squadron of B-17s through them. "The cavalier assaults on farms, trucks and cars speak to an elite that has fully taken leave of the realm of reason."
11. Build a streetcar, and a million people will live there. "It’s not about moving people around but signaling coolness."
12. There's emergence, and then there's rent-seeking. "Government is always operating from a knowledge deficit compared with business and investors who are taking risks every day, pushing the envelope of innovation and subjecting themselves to the discipline of the market, which will harshly punish them if they are wrong and richly reward them if they are right."
13. The Tragic Vision, in one sentence. "We need our leaders to be the best of us, but what we deserve, given our own weaknesses and selfishness, may be something quite different."
14. Thriving, in the sense of pond slime? "Over-use is the price we pay for having a thriving business-theory industry."
15. Biden destroyed that inheritance. "He inherited energy independence, affordable gas prices, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a low crime rate, and a largely closed border with legal-only immigration."
16. Two cheers for tract housing and neighborhood schools? "Children and adolescents shouldn’t be confined to their homes at all times until a parent consents to drive them somewhere."
17. Ignorance is strength. Psychotic is normal. “I have to do something crazy that would make me happy.”
18. Effective is not necessarily efficient. "The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government."
19. Product placement. "Don’t make it mad, angry and ugly."
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