Monday Links

Steuerle on the marriage tax: marital penalties are marriage vow penalties easily avoided by those who don’t believe in the vows.

Lookism: how you look may affect your outcome in courts of law.  HT: Tyler

Margaret Mead was an early LSD experimenter with CIA funding.

A little appreciated  fact about federal government finances: for the past 50 years federal revenues have averaged about 18% of GDP and have never reached 20% — despite many many changes in the tax code. Could this represent a “law” of public finance?