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Misguided? Are you saying you want to go back to when your state's House Reps decided your state's Senators?

I understand our federal politics are a complete mess but think that has more to do to equating money with freedom of speech, the great return on campaign donations, the polarization of our media and the lack of solid non-partisan research institutes that our elected leaders can rely upon. Have you ever watched CSPAN? Our leaders routinely become informed about the world around us through the same mass media as we do.

Why does this feel like a 2019 version of an Ancient Aliens episode?

It would be interesting to find out how much debt these "superstar" cities have taken on and the structure of their "portfolio"s. Almost all revenue generation done by local municipalities is through property taxes so it's very important to evaluate these places by some sort of Sharpe Ratio or else you're just encouraging these places to be the next Detroit.

I was having drinks with an accountant friend of mine who had/has clients in the budding borderline legal pot biz a little while ago and he said something interesting - we were talking about President's Trump's refusal to share his tax returns. Forgot the exact gotcha was but the jist of it was that you should ALWAYS report all your income even if it's not technically legally obtained.

On a side note, this friend of mine thinks the reason why the President isn't showing his returns isn't because of Russia but because his accountants may have done false filing of some shady business deals and the release of this data will place the President under serious legal troubles.