Weekly Digest – October 1-7, 2012
Taxation: When you hear someone championing tax ‘reform’ hold onto your wallet As Leona Helmsley once said, “Only little people pay taxes.” Mitt is apparently not a little person Matters of law: One...
View ArticlePutting Social Security back in the black
I’ve been advocating this for a long time but I suspect when Bruce Bartlett says it more people pay attention (like maybe triple digit readership instead of single). Here’s the punchline – my...
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Fiscal Cliff Status Report: 19 December 2012
Wonkblog summarizes the offers and counteroffers in a single graphic: Paul Krugman has gone from marginally positive to marginally negative on whether it’s a deal worth taking (emphasis added): The...
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Social Security Disability
Interesting Q&A at Wonkblog between Ezra Klein and Chana Joffe-Walt, “I thought I knew what being disabled meant, and I don’t.” Klein’s intro: Over the weekend, “This American Life” and “Planet...
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The Inadequacy of the Obama Administration
Lots to say and I’ll update this in the future but let me put down a few initial thoughts… Earlier today I was directed to a column which suggests that Obama’s Chained CPI offer is just a ploy to show...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s budget proposal
The President has released his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2014. The President’s proposal as well as multiple others are summarized in graphical form here. (It’s a nice graphic. The overall...
View ArticleRI Governor-elect Gina Raimondo
Frank Bruni with a glowing appreciation of RI Gov-elect Raimondo in the NY Times, A Democrat to Watch in 2015: Gina Raimondo’s Approach to Income Inequality. (Her approach to dealing with income...
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