The year that was — scoring 2023

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ISSUE 20.51 • 2023-12-18 Our next issue will be published on Tuesday, December 26, 2023. Happy Holidays! LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. It
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A nice snarkfest to kick off the holiday season.

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Interestng article.  It shows a pretty unbalanced win/loss ratio.

However, you pulled a punch near the end.  The following sentence needed an accuracy/reality tweak, “With profits at stake, companies have an incentive — and the resources — to gather, create, and present to the legislature data supporting the rules that they want. Individuals do not. Legislators make decisions based on the information they have. So if the information is biased, expect the legislation to be as well.”

Here is a far more accurate version of the paragraph, “With profits at stake, companies have an incentive — and the resources — to gather, create, and present to the legislature obtuse, ambiguous language supporting the rules that they want. Individuals do not. Legislators make decisions based on the MONEY they receive. So if the information is biased, expect the legislation to be as well.”

Fixed it to reflect the win/lose ratio.

 

 

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I never get too uptight about much, I know things tend to level out based on public opinion. Take AI, this is a technology that may eventually make great strides in aiding human’s or it may turn on us humans. I am somewhere in the middle on what AI holds for humans. I think right now it’s more hype than anything, a rush to seize the interest from users. But sometimes that backfires if presented too early and tends to do more harm than good. There is certainly a lot of money being invested in AI and companies are rushing to find ways to draw revenue from it. Seeing it as only a positive can be troubling because I think we need to also consider the negatives.

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What’s wrong with the IRS getting more money to chase tax cheats? Don’t we have a deficit problem in this country?

Also, BTW, that $80 billion was over the next ten years.

Please keep your politics out of this newsletter.

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