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Measuring Poverty (14): Measuring Income Inequality
"prosperity is just around the corner", but unfortunately not the corner where these unemployed people are headed (source) Income inequality may or may not be the best definition of poverty,… more →
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Good Times were fueled by government taxing and spending supporting a vibrant private sector
wrote 1 day ago: We all know when the good times were, we agree on that – Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street we all know … more →
Inequality: The Elephant in the Room
wrote 3 weeks ago: Robert Reich discusses the elephant in the room and advocates Keynesian economics over supply-side a … more →
Brookings study: Inequality Growing and Permanent
wrote 1 month ago: God, I hope it isn’t. As Paul Krugman has said “from 1980 to 2005, more than 80% of tota … more →
Free-riders be damned! Why the Financial Transaction Tax won’t work
wrote 4 months ago: In the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a lot of discussion centering around various forms of Fi … more →
Le Socialisme de l’Offre – Hollandeism and the new ‘pro-growth’ left agenda
wrote 4 months ago: Socialism as an ideology is so deeply fractured and there exist so many schools of thought that the … more →
Taxation Stupidity--It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
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wrote 5 months ago: I had an interesting chat with a friend the other day. He works in a technical field and makes abou … more →
A Victory for Ideology & Empty Threats: Reaction to Budget 2013
wrote 5 months ago: Much has been written about Budget 2013 [the Budget] since its announcement just over two days ago. … more →
Raising Taxes On The Rich?
wrote 5 months ago: Economics is not some monolithic discipline, and it is consitently misrepresented by those with Corp … more →
WILL Job Creators Really Not Hire If They Have To Pay Taxes?
wrote 5 months ago: WILL Job Creators Really Not Hire If They Have To Pay Taxes? – Campaign for America’s Fu … more →
The root cause of progressive taxation
wrote 5 months ago: Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek recently posted this bit of wisdom from ”Walter J. Blum’s and Har … more →
So Social Security Is Going Bankrupt, Right?
wrote 7 months ago: So you’ve heard all the claims about how Social Security is going bankrupt. Democrats say Rep … more →
An Indirect Wealth Tax for Ireland?
wrote 7 months ago: The Irish government is currently working overtime in an attempt to make the figures add up on yet a … more →
Four Decades of Corporate Personhood
wrote 7 months ago: In 1971, soon-to-be US Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell sent his now famous memo (“The Powel … more →
Is Redistribution Marxism? No, Just "Good Catholic Doctrine!"
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wrote 8 months ago: Originally posted at Talk to Action. After sustaining a series of self-inflicted political wounds … more →
Is Pat Garofalo the biggest hypocrite in the Minnesota Legislature?
wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I wrote about a 2009 email from Rep. Pat Garofalo of Farmington. In the email, Pat chasti … more →
3 Themes of the Democrat Convention
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wrote 8 months ago: The Democrat National Convention has concluded. Three themes stand out: one about the Democrats, on … more →
The Socialist's Retirement
wrote 9 months ago: I recently read an article in the CBS Connecticut affiliate concerning the low-level of retirement f … more →
re: Jenna Jameson, or How Not to Frame One's Political Decision-Making
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wrote 9 months ago: Recently it was revealed that Jenna Jameson, a former porn star, supports Mitt Romney for the upcomi … more →
The Economics of Arab Politics
wrote 11 months ago: Revolution-Fructification The Arab spring has unleashed a rich, healthy and long-time needed process … more →
