Today on Context Florida:
Jac Wilder VerSteeg discusses Jeb Bush’s “stuff happens” comment and his campaign’s reaction to the reaction. He gives a little advice on how to deal with questions about the Second Amendment the next time there’s a mass shooting – and there is bound to be another one he has to deal with between now and the election, assuming he’s not out of the race quickly: Before you speak, Jeb, imagine that you are in a room alone with the mother, father, sibling or child of one of the victims. What would you say to them? Stuff happens?
So much for Florida’s libertarian moment, says A.G. Gancarski. Florida’s libertarians could use a senatorial candidate as electable as Rand Paul. Instead, what have they gotten so far? Augustus Sol Invictus. In his article about the Invictus campaign last week in POLITICO, Marc Caputo notes that the candidate’s “adopted name” means something like “Invincible Sun Emperor.” It also means something like “another embarrassment for the Libertarian Party.”
Sal Nuzzo says during the 2016 presidential race, buried in much of hullabaloo will be a little known, but very important, facet of tax policy – “carried interest.” Some want to tax carried interest as ordinary income – income that is subject to the tax rates borne by typical wage earners. Nuzzo notes that this tax hike will hurt charitable givers, retirement investors and scholarship recipients.
