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  • Immigration Reform [imR] (11/25/25)
  • Judicial Reform [jR]
  • Media Reform [mR] (3/26/25)
  • Social Security Reform [ssR] (4/7/25).
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Some Founding Fathers, Including Thomas Paine, Proposed Taxing Wealth and Inheritances to Help the Poor

4/12: Now on Recommended Sites

4/11: Future EC Questions for AI

  • How are tech companies and their employees able to avoid paying FICA taxes? (4/11) [ssR]
  • Should immigration detension centers by named after Congressional and other politicians who support them? [imR)
  • Why does the charitable deduction need to be reformed? [tbR-170]
    - An AI-assisted proposal to reform Donar Advised Funds (DAFs) will eventually appear at [TR.AI-170].
  • How can disclosure benefit AI and reforms?
  • How has budget reconciliation changed from being a process to reduce deficits to a corrupt process to increase deficits and the national debt?
    - The corruption started with the Republicans and George W. Bush.
    - The latest corruption is the Trump Republican's OBBBA.
    - They now intend to use the corrupt process to spend $1.5 trillion on the military to be primarily paid by taxing labor income now and in the future by increasing the national debt.
  • Is the Iran war becoming a war against Iranians by precise targeting of universities, hospitals, and bridges? [or-ns]
    - Trump's war crimes and his threat to destroy the Iranian civilization.
    -- Response by Pope Leo
    -- How did Fox News cover Pope Leo's statement on Trump's war crime?
    --- AI reports no Fox News story on these specific comments show up in current search results.
    -- Statement by the Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
  • Why should the military budget be entirely financed by a tax on wealth?
  • Why does Social Security need to be fairer? [ss]
  • How can we Make Income Taxes Fairer Again (MITFA)?
    - By adopting the taxing principle of the 1986 Tax Reform Act when income from capital was taxed at the same marginal rate as ordinary income.
  • Why does the estate tax need to be replaced with a higher capital gains tax rate at death to encourage realization and recognition during one's lifetime? [tbr]
  • How can states tax part-year residents who are not permanent residents? [tbr]
  • How does Palm Beach County allow owners who rent their condos to depreciate land? [tbr]
  • What is Corrupt in the Predictive Markets? [tbr]
  • What Tax Advice did Jeffrey Epstein provide to his billionaire clients? [tbr]
  • How can housing affordability be improved by slowing population growth and limiting immigration?
  • Why do we need a federal tax on capital and income from capital? [tbr]
    - Federal taxes are based on citizenship and residence while state taxes are based on residence.
    -- Wealthy individuals can avoid state taxes on capital by moving to a state that does not tax capital.
    -- Wealthy individuals donate to politicians to the federal government to write tax laws to enable them to legally avoid taxes.
  • Why does the U.S. need charities? [tbr]
    - This question is prompted by a Swede who asked our founder this question while he was employed by Svenska Esso AB in 1964?
    - What is the dictionary definition of a charity?
    - How do most Nordic countries define a charity for donor tax purposes?
    - How does the Internal Revenue Code define a charity and a 501(c)(3) organization?
    - Was the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" financed by charitable tax deductions?
  • Why should the assets in tax-subsidized tax-free savings accounts be restricted to assets with an easily determined fair market value?
  • How do the internet and crypto privacy rules protect fraud, thefts, and corruption?

4/4: Now on Recommended Sites

  • BB's WSW: Japan's New Investment Horizon (2/21)
    On bloomberg.com & youtube.com
  • BB WE Law: Trump Facing Loss on Birthright Citizenship (4/3)
  • NPR's OTM: Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War (4/3) [or-ns]
    - Christian Nationalism via a right-wing Calvinist
    - Peter Thiel's anti-liberal theology
    - Encouraging Trans-genders to commit suicide
  • PBS' FL: Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses the 1929 stock market crash and how we may learn from it. (11/7/25)
    On pbs.org & youtube.com
  • PBS' WW: Iran timeline & Bondi out
    On pbs.org & youtube.com
    - Trump says Iran war wrapping up, but address leaves more questions than answers
    - After Bondi's ouster, who could be the next official fired by Trump?
  • RNRH: Impeachment for All (4/4)
  • Fareed Zakaria:
    - WP Opinion: Trump's Iran Own Goal (4/3)
    - CNN GPS: Transcripts are now available. (4/5)
    - Interview with Richard Haass and Zanny Minton Beddoeson on "How to end the Hormuz Crisis"
    -- Read Trump's unhinged and vulgar quote he posted on the Truth Social website.
    - Interview with Ali Vaez about the reaction of the Iranians who opposed the regime to the bombing and Trump's threat to bomb Iran back to the stone ages.
    - Interview with Ali Ansari on "How Iran's history shaped the moderm state?"

4/1: Potential Questions for Governor Ned Lamont

  • Immigration
    - Does anyone in Connecticut know what immigrants are costing Connecticut taxpayers? [ir]
    - Should the federal government be responsible for the net costs of immigration incurred by state & local taxpayers and hospitals?
    - Many Finns in the country that is rated as the Happiest country are not Happy about the costs of mass immigration.
  • Taxing non-permanent residents of Connecticut
    - Enact a homestead tax exemption on the primary residence of permanent residents.
    - Enact a state capital gains tax on the sale of property in CT by a non-permanent resident of CT.
    - Should the state enact a proportionate income tax on non-permanent residents who own or rent property in the state and spend more than 30 days in the state?
  • Voter ID
    - Should the state eventually require a voter ID based on proof of citizenship?
    - How can the state ensure that all residents who were born in Connecticut are eligible to vote?
    - Is CT examining how to make it easy for all citizens to register to vote?
    - Should the state encourage all citizens to vote by providing a financial incentive to register to vote and to actually vote?
    - Should the state pass a law that would make it illegal for anyone, like what Elon Musk did in the 2024 election with a $1 million day lottery to encourage Republicans to register to vote and requiring they sign a pledge to protect free speech and Second Amendment? (4/5)
    -- California's Senate passed SB 398 unanimously. It outlaws voter lotteries and monetary schemes that are linked to encouraging someone to either register or vote.
  • State Pensions
    - Are defined benefit employee pensions fully funded?
    - Are defined contribution plans replacing defined benefit plans for new employees?
  • Electricity and Water Costs
    - What are the future cost estimates for electricity and water availability?
  • Presented to The Honorable Ned Lamont, Governor of Connecticut on April 1, a draft proposal for only taxing capital to pay for the Iran War. The proposal is derived from the last sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the population apportionment clause in the Constitution, and the Direct Tax Act of 1798. [tbr] (4/5)

3/28: Now on Recommended Sites

3/25: Two AI Statements on the Constitution's Original Population Apportionment Clause [jr] [tbr]

    Proportional Representation Clause
  • "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."
  • 15-ec: Do some scholars claim that the population apportionment clause was designed to make the direct tax difficult to implement?
    - AI: Yes. A substantial line of scholarship expressly treats the population apportionment requirement as a "deliberate hurdle" that was expected to make federal direct taxes hard to use except in rare cases.
  • 16-ec: Our research indicates that the original population apportionment was designed to use population for both representation and taxation of wealth. Two of our relatives, Pierce Butler of South Carolina and James Wilson of Pennsylvania, were partially responsible for linking the taxes on wealth to population and representation. It was part of 3/5ths compromise.
    - AI: You are on solid ground: many historians and constitutional scholars agree that the original apportionment scheme was consciously designed to tie "representation and direct taxation to the same population base," with the Three-Fifths Compromise as the key mechanism that linked wealth (especially slave-based wealth) to population counts.

3/24: AI Questions on Foreign Policy and the Iran War

  • 2-ec: Why is the current U.S. foreign policy being conducted with two real estate developers - Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff - who seem to be motivated by improving Trump's and their own wealth?
  • 3-ec: Did Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, recently claim on Amanpour and Company on March 23 that there were reports that the Iranians were ready to agree to abandon their pursuit of nuclear weapons before Israel and the U.S. launched their devastating attacks on Iran?
    - Yes. On the March 23, 2026 episode of Amanpour & Company, Wolfgang Ischinger said that, according to reports he had seen, Iran had been ready to agree to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons before Israel and the United States carried out their large-scale strikes.
    - View on pbs.org

3/22: EC Opinion - Funding U.S. Wars and the Military Budget [ec][tbr] [tr.ai]

U.S. wars and the military budget should be financed entirely through taxes on capital income and wealth, rather than through taxes on labor and ever-rising federal debt. The signers of the Declaration of Independence closed that document by pledging "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" to the cause of independence, explicitly putting their property at risk to support the war they were undertaking. Today, however, the Pentagon's budget is funded primarily by taxes on wages and salaries, along with substantial borrowing that pushes the costs of current wars onto future taxpayers. In light of that founding pledge, the real question is how many so-called patriotic billionaires are prepared to shoulder higher taxes on their capital now, instead of bankrolling politicians who promise to keep cutting their tax bills.

3/22: Now on Recommended Sites

3/20: EC Opinion - Two Proposals for Taxing Liquid Capital [tr.ai]

  • Apply a tax or fee on using intangible assets as collateral for borrowing.
    The objective is to prevent the use of the "Buy Borrow Die" tax avoidance strategy with all assets that are not subject to state and local property taxes.
  • Apply a tax or fee for buying back shares of a corporation.
    - The objective is to reinstate the SEC rule that applied to buybacks prior to 1982.
    - Buybacks are way of increasing the wealth of shareholders without generating currently taxable income

3/20: EC Opinion - Why a tax on wealth and income from capital should be exclusively used to pay for wars [tr.ai]

    AI Conclusion:
  • The constitutional design, the historical practice, the economic evidence, and the moral logic all converge on the same conclusion: taxes on wealth and income from capital are the appropriate --- and arguably the only legitimate --- mechanism for financing wars. The post-9/11 departure from this principle has produced precisely the combination of fiscal irresponsibility, inequality, and endless war that the Founders' framework was designed to prevent.

3/19: Who should pay for the Iran War? [tbr][or-ns]

  • It was recently announced that Trump will request a $200 billion supplement to the current FY 2026 $1 trillion Military Budget.
  • The bottom line is that the troops must be supported.
  • What was the last sentence in the Declaration of Independence?
    - "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
  • The cost of this war and all defense spending should be primarily funded based on wealth and income from capital.
  • 1-ec: Who among today's patriotic Americans and subsidized nonprofit organizations are willing to pledge their Lives, their Fortunes, and their scared Honor to pay for the Iran War and all military spending?
  • 2-ai: Who are the specific pro-war donors, think tanks, and contractors behind current Iran policy and Pentagon growth?

3/19: What might be a more appropriate name than "Operation Epic Fury" for the Iran excursion? [or-ns]

  • Our first choice was the Netanyahu Trump or NT War.
    - This was deemed appropriate by AI.
    - The NT emphasizes that the primary person for Trump deciding to bomb Iran at this time was Netanyahu.
    -- Israel's next election is scheduled to take place before October 27, 2026.
    -- The U.S. midterm election will be held on November 3, 2026.
    - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Israel's plan to attack forced the U.S to join Israel in attacking Iran.
  • By adding a leading T to NT the NT War became the TNT War.
    - This was deemed appropriate by AI for the initial bombing phase of the war.
    - TNT is a measure of the explosive power of the bombs used by Israel and the U.S.
    - The explosive power of one version of the AGM-154 glide bomb is equivalent to about 200 pounds of TNT.
    -- How many equivalent tons of TNT have been dropped on Iran?
    -- How many equivalent pounds of TNT were accidentally used to bomb the girl's school?
  • We will refer to the Iran excursion as the Iran War.

3/15: Now on Recommended Sites

3/10: Today's Virtual Meetings

3/8: Now on Recommended Sites

3/5: Live with Urban: State of the Safety Net

3/5-7: Family Search's RootsTech Conference [Gene]

3/1: AI Questions Pertaining to Attacking Iran

  • 1-ec: Why did Trump and Israel's Netanyahu attack Iran at this time?
  • 2-ec: Did Trump say the threat from Iran was imminent?
  • 3-ai: What is the factual basis for imminence?
  • 4-ai: Is it likely that Netanyahu's support for this attack was motivated by his prior support for Hamas and his forthcoming election in Israel?
  • 5-ai: Map out a timeline that juxtaposes Netanyahu's electoral calendar, his Hamas policy milestones, and the road to this Iran attack to see how the political incentives line up?
  • 6-ai: Show a timeline in a narrative format that briefly explains each key juncture.
  • 7-ai: Analyze how this pattern affects US and Israeli Iran policy long term
  • 8-ai: Compare Netanyahu's sequence to Trump's domestic incentives over the same period, including his electoral calendar and coalition dynamics?
  • 9-ec: Is there any concern that government officials or members of the Trump family have profited from insider information related to Trump's financial market-moving actions?
  • 10-ec: Our concern with insider trading pertains to all his market-moving decisions since January 1, 2025.

2/28: Now on Recommended Sites

2/21: Now on Recommended Sites

2/19: The 250th - Declaration of Independence is now open

2/15: Now on Recommended Sites

  • BB's WSW: The Cost of Ambition (2/13)
    Rattner on Manufacturing, US Public Buses, Milan's Boom, AI & The Future of Work
    - Is Trump's Manufacturing Comeback Real?
    - The real battle in the AI era between humans and machines or humankind itself with David Autor of MIT
  • BBWE Law: Superstar Lawyer, Mangione Outburst & Mandatory Detention (2/14)
  • NPR's OTM: The Social Media Addiction Trials Begin (2/13)
  • PBS' FL: Gen Z's Natalie Winters (Bannon's "War Room") and Adam Mockler (YouTube host) (2/13)
  • PBS' WW: Stephen Miller & Immigration policies (2/13)
    - Stephen Miller's rise to power in the Trump White House
    - How Stephen Miller reshaped the GOP's immigration policies
  • RNRH: Empire of Fraud. (2/14)
    - Ralph welcomes, Robert Weissman co-president of Public Citizen, to discuss his Senate testimony about the many ways the Trump Administration's assault on fraud is itself fraudulent.
    - Ralph informs us of a report from Aljazeera about the [U.S. made] MK-84 weapon used by the IDF in Gaza that can vaporize people.
    Transcript:
    - 03:00 Interview with Robert Weissman
    - 03:43 Reference to Written Testimony of Robert Weissman on Fraud
    - 10:52 What are they doing to gut the IRS?
    - 13:44 Trump's rampage of pardons
    - 20:49 Wall Street Journal expose involving a UAE-affiliated company,
    - 24:22 "Listeners, I think we really have to find the words to describe what's going on here. Tyrant Trump, dictator Donald, has obliterated the rule of law."
    - 27:19 "The chief expert in this country on fraud in the healthcare area, Professor Malcolm Sparrow from Harvard University" ... was not asked to testify.
    - 46:32 "On 10 February, there's a breaking story from Al Jazeera" on "2,842 Palestinians who have been evaporated by" ..." internationally prohibited U.S. manufactured thermal and thermobaric weapons,"
    - 49:21 "An Israeli company has developed a new kind of cluster bomb, and they found a huge new customer."
  • CNN FZGPS: Transcripts are now available (2/15)
    - Interview with "New York Times" opinion columnist Ezra Klein on his excellent recent column titled "Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself."
    - Interview with Anne Applebaum of "The Atlantic" on the four-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    - Interview with Gideon Lewis-Kraus of "The New Yorker" on how Anthropic's AI Claude model is being instructed to adopt characteristics like human virtues.
    - Fareed explains how Spain is pursuing a far more relaxed approach to immigration by the center-left government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

2/12: Altruist Introduces "Hazel" AI-Powered Tax Planning Tool for Wealth Management

2/12: AI Questions on the Epstein Files [jr] [tbr] (2/19)

- 1-ec: Why did Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, fail to include in a video, the questions democrats asked Ghislaine Maxwell?
- 2-ai: What specific questions did Democrats ask Maxwell?:
- 3-ai: Are full transcripts of the Maxwell deposition available?
- 4-ec: Has anyone categorized the current Department of Justice as the Department of Retribution?
- 5-ec: In Pam Bondi's testimony about the Epstein files on Wednesday, February 11, she asked the democrats about Biden's AG failure to investigate. Did anyone ask Pam Bondi about her failure to investigate the Epstein files while she was the Attorney General of Florida?
- 6-ai: Did Bondi respond to questions about her Florida AG tenure?
- 7-ai: What did Epstein victims say about Bondi testimony?
- 8-ai: Did any Republicans defend Bondi against survivor criticisms?
- 9-ec: Is it possible to examine how Epstein made his money and filed his tax returns? (2/19)

2/10: Today's AI Questions (2/19)

Today, ElectoralCollege.Org introduces a new feature to promote the pursuit of happiness of U.S. citizens. Since being introduced to Artificial Intelligence, we have asked thousands of questions about all our areas of interest. With these questions we have discovered that cancerous corruption permeates all aspects of our political economy and can be conquered with disclosure and political reforms. We hope that you will use these questions to discover what we have learned and will agree on the need for reforms.

Eventually, a summary of the answers to some of these questions will appear in the area of interest sections that are abbreviated within the following brackets [ ].

Here are today's questions:
- How Trump may be the most partisan and corrupt U.S. president? [er]
- Who is the most popular Democrat governor in a red state? [er]
- What is the connection between share buybacks and Social Security? [ssr] [tbr]

2/7: Now on Recommended Sites

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