That was fun.  www.fairtax.org   

As an aside, we're glad they got it done this year. His Mother, our DIL, has cancer that is eating up the 20% of her liver she has left.  Short of a true miracle, she may not be here much longer.  We've been lucky to have had around this long.

Photography is hard.
But running a business is still harder.  Dealing with every level of government, employees, taxes, strategy, and a zillion other things.

That said, I had the skills and personality to run a business.  I don't have the skills or personality to be a good photographer.  I have done both.

edit:  At least I used to have the personality to run a business.  I am too old and grouchy now.

I don’t have the personality to run a business unless I am the lone human in it. And there’s no inventory. And no production of actual things. And no real life interaction with anybody.

It's almost like somebody WANTS there to be endless proxy wars between the two biggest superpowers.

  The US Military Industrial Complex, war is big business.   Buy enough DC career politicians and make an alliance with the numerous US Intel Agencies and it produces an unending income stream.

 Now we are watching the Ukraine Clusterfuck which is in reality a huge money laundering scheme.

Agreed.  The simple solution is for Russia (and soon China) to stop getting them started.  But once started, what are we supposed to do?  Appeasement doesn't seem to work: Let's give them Ukraine and then they'll stop.  Let's give them Taiwan and then they'll stop.  Honestly, I don't know the solution.

Putin and I think Bush 2.0 were on the way to an alliance when GW went back home and was talked out of it by... whom???  We don't really know.  We were already cooperating together on space projects.  There is no reason since the breakup of the Soviet Union we can't be friends with Russia. It would mean the likes of NK, China and Iran would be non-issues. We have our differences with Russia but nothing that can't be overlooked given the benefits of the two greatest superpowers on the planet allied against threats such as Islamoterrorists and totalitarian commie regimes. Sure Russia is now a fascist plutocracy but at this point, the U.S. pretty much is too. After all, who were the people that talked GW out of making friends with our former adversary again?

That rebuff pushed Russia toward China and Iran. It's almost like somebody WANTS there to be endless proxy wars between the two biggest superpowers. While China looks for an opportunity to take over Taiwan, Iran gleefully uses the money Biden gave them to fund terrorists attacking Israel (our biggest ally in the MidEast) and "Death to America" protesters all over the world, and North Korea is back to testing nukes.

Good going, whoever the hell you are.