Negative income taxes generally mean high marginal net tax rates for low-income earners. In your example, there's a 20% marginal tax rate for people earning less than 60K.
Dodgy pharmaceutical ads are some of the most profitable dodgy ads, so SEO spam sites are likely to have content related to marketing dodgy pharmaceuticals. Dodgy pharmaceutical sites are also more likely to be based in Russia, due to lax law enforcement.
Governments usually try to work around that, including the staple food exception you mentioned, but that makes the whole system a mess of exceptions and exceptions-to-exceptions.
Well, I'd assume "Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director" is the secretary for the no. 2 at the MTC, which doesn't seem all that unreasonable. The "Program Assistant to the Director" is probably a project manager. The "Director of Cluster Development" is probably in charge of whoever is developing clusters, whatever those are. The titles are slightly overblown, but little more than I'd expect at any government department or large corporation.
The distinction between the two groups is not that clear. I suspect many users don't care too much, but if they stumble upon a "don't track me" option, they'll select it.
This particular law is hurting people far more than it's protecting them, but in general, laws are framed as trying to protect people because the purpose of laws in general is to protect people.
They talk about the money made storing aluminium in the warehouse, who's paying that? It sounds like Goldman owns both the aluminium and the warehouses, so all they're doing is buying aluminium and refusing to sell it.
Sure there can be an end. It'll end when enough people get fed up with it to demand an end, and the President follows through. As the memory of 9/11 fades in relevance and the wars in the Middle East die down, the public's tolerance for the war will wane. I can only hope it doesn't take as long as the War on Communism.