by Paul Stokstad | Dec 14, 2025 | Politics, Thought Experiments
Politics as Positioning On July 22, 1864, outside Atlanta, the battlefield refused to behave like a tidy diagram. Units shifted, lines bent, attacks came from angles nobody had expected, and some soldiers ended up reworking captured earthworks so the trenches faced...
by pstokstad | Jul 7, 2023 | Commentary, Musings, Politics, Thought Experiments
A designated tax system where taxpayers can specify which governmental departments and/or programs their tax dollars would support could have both benefits and downsides. Benefits: Democratization of Public Spending: This system could give taxpayers a direct...
