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What Is to Be Done? A New Economic Model Commentary What is to be done? Lenin’s 1902 question, posed as he was effecting his takeover of the Bolsheviks with an eye to absolute power in Russia, continues to echo down the decades. Lenin understood that first, the struggle for supremacy had to be won at the intellectual and theoretical level and then, when the moment was right, by direct action—i.e., violence. In other words, the revolution had to be conceived and believed by the intelligentsi...

In 2021, it's clear Americans now have thrown off any notions of subsidiarity and instead embraced the idea that the federal government should be called upon to fund pretty much anything and everything.

A previous Holland & Knight alert provided an overview of corporate and individual income tax increases as detailed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury May 2021 "Green Book." (See...

Elizabeth Warren has decided that bitcoin mining uses "too much" electricity

Supreme Errors   Share In the wake of my last commentary on the horrendous Supreme Court decision upholding Obamas health care plan, several people have pointed out that I erred in saying that the income tax is a "direct tax." While it is technically correct that the Court ultimately declared it to be an excise, not a direct tax, it is important to understand how it arrived at that opinion and why the decision has no practical relevance to the way the tax has been enforced.  Just as it has ...

In this week’s edition: House passes Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act to protect proceeds from state-legal cannabis businesses from operation of money laundering laws, but has an unclear path in the Senate Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Sens. Booker and Wyden expected to introduce comprehensive cannabis reform legislation over objections from some Democratic colleagues Adult-use cannabis now legal in 17 US states, including, most recently, in New York, New Mexico and Virgini...

The Atlantic Tight security harms the daily functioning of the legislative branch. February 10, 2021 May-Ying Lam / Redux Even after the 7,000 National Guard troops currently deployed around the United States Capitol pack up following the impeachment trial, the Hill will not be returning to normal. “We must harden this campus,” House Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett warned in a closed Appropriations Committee session late last month. Yogananda Pittman, the acting chief of the Capitol Polic...