Mike Schilling asks: By the way, wouldn’t privatized Social Security [be] the same sort of unconstitutional mandate as health insurance is? If by “privatized Social Security” we mean “forced individual transfers, not to the...
Via Meteor Blades at Daily Kos is Sam Pizzigati explaining that the top 1 percent of income earners have a ridiculously low state and local tax burden relative to their low and middle-income fellow...
Via Megan McArdle is this interesting graph from the Congressional Budget Office showing the impact the recession has had on tax revenues, organized by type of tax: I am also surprised to see that...
I am nowhere near informed enough to offer any intelligent commentary on economic policy, but I am pretty good at political analysis. And so instead of focusing on the economic part of Bruce Bartlett’s...
Reading Ross Douthat’s (terrible) column this morning, I really only have three thoughts: 1) Someone should tell him to shy away from writing policy columns; not only is he not very good at them,...
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post explaining a few possible ways we could raise revenue, in light of the – as of yet accounted for – long-term structural deficits in the Obama...
The New York Times – as is its wont – has a pretty good editorial on the need for higher taxes in the age of Obama: But, sooner than he may prefer, Mr. Obama...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25The talk about not wanting to "bail out Europe again" was a pretty big clue they were dilettantes. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25In 2023, I listened to a discussion/interview with a well-known American philosopher and a couple ph… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Okay, that's good to know. When I'm in your group chat and you add a third party, is there a ding an…
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on Don’t Go Torching Cyber TrucksIf people REALLY want to hurt Musk, they should lobby for the removal of regulatory credits they sel… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25There are modernist Zoroastrians, though they are a minority within a very small religious group any… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25It takes two steps: first, you have to send an invitation to someone, and second, when creating a gr…
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