byMike Kimel [edited to make authorship clearer] Libertarians come in many flavors, but I think most of them would agree that in an ideal world, the government would be very small and have limited powers – essentially, the government would control national defense and perhaps adjudicate over property rights disputes (i.e., maintain police and/or the […]
by Mike Kimel This one comes via Yves Smith. It seems some companies, er, “salvage” moldy and otherwise defective food, repackage it, and sell it.
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to do for this election.) Guess who wrote this op-ed?? The moment you threaten to strip politicians of their legal […]
[update: Links fixed 11/30.] by Stormy Why did the English equivalent of Occupy Wallstreet pick St Paul’s as the place to protest? Because St. Paul’s is hand in glove with the City of London Corporation, the place where democracy and light “goes to die,” the place where there is no accountability or transparency for the […]
Hale Stewart of BondDad blog discusses jobs…and jobs… 1. V shaped real retail sales and industrial production recoveries vs. jobs: …Comparing those with private jobs (red) and total payrolls (green), we can see that the percentage losses in sales and production were steeper, and have made up nearly or more than all of their ground […]
The House Appropriations Committee recently offered up a bill that would cut students’ Pell Grants – the cornerstone of the student aid system – by $44 billion over 10 years. The bill, if passed, would slash millions of students’ Pell Grants: completely eliminating grants for more than 550,000 students next year and for more than […]
by Mike Kimel Herman Cain and the Defense of Marriage This isn’t my usual beat, but I was fascinated to read this statement by Herman Cain’s attorney: Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the […]
Paul Caron at Taxprof blog points us to capital gains Is Capital Gains Tax Law Biased Against Low Income Investors? Min Dai (National University of Singapore, Department of Mathematics), Hong Liu (Washington University, Olin Business School) & Yifei Zhong (University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute), Is Capital Gains Tax Law Biased Against Low Income Investors?: The […]
Mark Thoma responds to the meme that the social safety net encourages bad behavior overall: The idea that the unemployment problem is due to lack of effort on behalf of the unemployed rather than a lack of demand is convenient for the moralists, but inconsistent with the facts. The problem is lack of demand, not […]
By Jazzbumpa at Retirement Blues comes this re-posting that runs parallel to Dan Becker’s post here. Federal Government Tax Receipts Where do you think they come from? I’ll just give it away: Personal Income Taxes, Corporate Income Taxes and FICA (the payroll tax: you know that hyper-regressive flat tax – nominally for Social Security and […]