Reality Bites Trump and His Cabinet.

Gemini Image Mike Magee In the 1994 classic movie, Reality Bites, college graduate and fledgling documentary film maker Winona Ryder forms a troubled bond with a troop of characters that includes GAP sales associate, Janeane Garofalo, who may have HIV; Steve Zahn who struggles to figure out how to tell his parents he’s gay; Ben […]

Pigouvian Tax vs. Norquistian Anarchy

Mike Magee Like many Americans, I’ve been following the tax debate. We seem to have moved from “no new taxes” to “what new taxes”. The New Yorker this week came out in favor of Pigouvian taxes.(1) Say what? Back in 1920, a British economist named Arthur Pugou, wrote a book called “The Economics of Welfare”, […]