Waymo Will Debut Driverless Cars Within “A Few Months”
Andrej Sokolow/DPA via ZUMA Driverless cars are getting closer: Waymo, the autonomous car company from Google’s parent company Alphabet, has started testing a fleet of self-driving vehicles without any backup drivers on public roads, its chief executive said Tuesday. The tests, which will include passengers within the next few months, mark an important milestone that…
Forbes: Wilbur Ross Is a Big Fat Liar
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA. Pinocchio nose by Kevin Drum. Oh man, I almost forgot about this. Remember the other day I mentioned that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is a multi-billionaire? Funny story about that. It turns out that in his financial disclosure to Congress, his net worth only amounted to about $700 million. Forbes…
CIA Director Met With Conspiracy Theorist Who Says DNC Hacks Were an Inside Job
Would you like to meet with CIA Director Mike Pompeo? It’s easier than you think! Just show up on Fox News and claim that Hillary Clinton personally hacked the DNC’s email and then tried to blame it on Trump and the Russians. He’d love to hear from you.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA So what’s the CIA…
The GOP Tax Bill Is Breathtakingly Generous to the Super Wealthy
Someday, kids, this will all be yours. And completely tax free! Who’s your daddy now? The Republican tax bill is a gift that keeps on giving. Literally. I keep finding new nuggets in it that—go figure!—weren’t in the brief talking points that Republicans handed out last week. But if you dig through the bill, there…
Who Gets a Tax Hike? Here Are the Top Ten and Bottom Ten States.
Last night I showed you some estimates from ITEP about how many households were likely to face a tax hike thanks to the Republican tax bill. As it happens, ITEP also has estimates for each state, so I took a look at the numbers for middle-class households with incomes between $40-65,000. That’s smack in the…
New Estimate Confirms That Republican Tax Plan Favors the Very, Very Rich
Here’s another estimate of who gets what from the Republican tax plan. This one is from the Institute on Taxation and Public Policy: This is fairly close to the estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation with the exception of the far-right bar in 2027. ITEP estimates that millionaires will retain a pretty fat 2.5…