[EL] Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to InvestigateConservative Tax-Ex

Tue May 14 08:48:51 PDT 2013

Hey, Joe, good to hear from you.

I'll cut to it, as well: I believe there are frictions in markets in the
short run. But they are overcome, overtime. (Are you calculating your
thresholds on an abacus? In a hut? With a white, short-sleeved shirt,
pocket protector and black tie?)

I believe that what passes for market failure too often isn't.

I believe markets are the only system most absent of coercion; that markets
allow individuals to process data and make choices, political and economic,
and believe there is no making them together, in the cognitive sense.

I think the, how did you put it, "single greatest threat facing our
country" is the belief that, whatever good is achieved by collective action
(and much is), that there is such a thing as collective consciousness or
collective salvation. Those preaching it, for the most part, I find,
haven't renounced ambition themselves, for their ambitions are mighty high.
Rather, it appears to me, they aim to harvest the ambitions and energy of
others, and by force if necessary.

Good luck with the Lobbying Thresholds!

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Joseph Birkenstock <
jbirkenstock at capdale.com> wrote:

> And that self-government via representative democracy depends on
> protecting the representatives against conflicts of interest and undue
> influence?  My guess is that we might still agree, but will disagree on how
> to & what should provide the protection.  ****
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> Day job obligations require me to cut to the chase: I sincerely believe
> that conservative refusal to accept the fallacy of the efficient markets
> hypothesis as a means of understanding the real world, despite the
> increasingly ruinous cost of multiple lessons to the contrary, is the
> single greatest threat facing our country.  ****
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> Best,****
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> Joe****
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> P.S.  And with that windy observation, I turn to: lobbying registration
> thresholds!!****
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Steve
> Hoersting
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:24 AM
> *To:* Smith, Brad
> *Cc:* law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to
> InvestigateConservative Tax-Ex****
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> Good article, Jim.****
>
> Good insight, Brad. It seems there is a chasm, particularly among laymen
> in both camps.****
>
> But I have often thought there is one thing the liberty minded and
> would-be Progressive ministers absolutely agree upon, and that it both
> explains the consistency of and drives the activity in both camps:
> Self-government requires unfettered speech.****
>
> On May 14, 2013 9:42 AM, "Smith, Brad" <BSmith at law.capital.edu> wrote:****
>
> Although there are many other issues, including different readings of
> empirical evidence and different views of how democracy and government
> ought to work, in many ways the basic dividing line is this: reform
> advocates fear private power more than government power; speech advocates
> fear government power more than private power. ****
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [
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> JBoppjr at aol.com [JBoppjr at aol.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:58 AM
> *To:* rhasen at law.uci.edu; law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* [EL] Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate
> Conservative Tax-Ex****
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> Click here: Congress Put Pressure on the IRS to Investigate Conservative
> Tax-Exempt Groups - Garance Franke-Ruta - The Atlanti<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/congress-put-pressure-on-the-irs-to-investigate-conservative-tax-exempt-groups/275814/>
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> I guess we won't hear again from the reform industry that there in no such
> thing as government harassment. Jim Bopp****
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