The new IRS report on the "tax gap" is a good news, bad news story -- although mostly bad news.
Are caucuses paragons of participatory democracy, unrepresentative playgrounds for zealots, both, or somewhere in between?
Blatant redistribution, the argument goes, may fly in Europe with its strong class identity, but is a non-starter here, where the value of individual self-reliance is dominant. Is this really true?