On April 15 US-citizens had to declare their taxes. Apparently a very complicated endeavor – the tax code encompasses 70’000 pages and US society spends 7.6 billion hours (both paid and unpaid) to get the declaration right (or wrong as cynics might add). This time equivalents to almost 4 million people working year round –…
Tag Archive: Interest groups
USA – Unlimited Funds for Political Lobbyists
A highly controversial ruling of the US Supreme Court has the potential of fundamentally changing the rules of the political game in the United States. Arguing with the freedom of expression, the court allows the unlimited financial interference of private corporations in political affairs. The majority of conservative judges act in line with the idea…
Russian parliament – show-business and politics intermingled
Nikolai Rastorguev, one of the more famous Russian rock singers, is to become a member of the parliament on behalf of the party ”United Russia”. He is the next in a string of appointments of famous show-business persons without any political experience. Rastorguev will share the responsibility with beauty queens, a ballerina, a boxer, two…
