he told you about this shocking wall street journal that found that the values that have defined america for generations, the foundations of our society collapsing since 1998 the number of americans who viewed patriotism as important dropping from 70% to 38. the importance of religion dropped from 62% to 39%. having children dropped from 59% to just 30%. community involvement down. the only area that americans see as more important than it was 25 years ago, having money. what we are seeing are the awful consequences of a broken society. this is deeper than politics. spreading through multiple administrations. that is because neither republicans nor democrats, it seems to me, have really tried to understand let alone address the reasons why our society is so broken. i wrote about this a few years ago in my book more human. so many things in our lives have become too big and bureaucratic and distant from the human scale. big government centralizing power. taking it away from lo
state perspective here in california, that feels like federal government, the federal government control over a lot of these scr various local jurisdiction. steve: then the irs seem to wage a war on small business as well. we talked about how the new irs agents would not affect anyone makings less than $400 thousand, that is not the case with the restaurant industry, there is a sum of irs agents that have been allocated to retro actively go after server s tips, people who don t make more than 75 to 100 thousand a year. if they under report their tips, the irs agencies will audit them and specific about how much they claimed. it is the businesses that pay the penalties they get