Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

How the Top 0.01 Percent Became America's Criminal Class. "An underfunded and overworked IRS has enabled a handful of plutocratic tax cheats to live large at the expense of everyone else." [newrepublic.com]

New study finds that tax evasion is rampant among America's wealthy: more than 20% of their income goes unreported, to the tune of $175B/yr. The underfunded IRS doesn't have the resources to investigate this theft. [bloomberg.com]

For some reason, my teen son has become obsessed with the "Dicky Moe" episode of Tom & Jerry. To be fair, the first 40 seconds are a brilliant animated distillation of Captain Ahab's deranged whale obsession. [youtube.com]

NY Times food critic Tejal Rao lost her sense of smell (and therefore taste) from a Covid-19 infection and months later she's still working to get it back. [nytimes.com]

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