Update: This post from 6/28 has been re-posted today 7/04 as I believe it was lost in last Thursday’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care ACA….

…of spending that an across-the-board cut makes little sense for–the spending necessary to collect tax from deadbeat/scofflaw or criminal taxpayers. The IRS enforcement budget essentially is an investment in better…

Health Care thoughts: PPACA Employer Mandate Part 1 So I am trying to put together a template for evaluating the employer health insurance mandate under PPACA…. Some preliminary thoughts: 50…

…US. Why??? Saletan at Slate had argued against the a law being passed in LA which had restricted the numbers of fast food restaurants in one section of the city….

…know this is at that other newspaper which must not be mentioned here, but it absolutely answers your rhetorical question http://bit.ly/duULSk Votes against ACA and TARP are associated with better…

…recent decision by lawmakers to freeze nominal Social Security benefits. As our graph shows, the consumer price index for August 2010 is actually lower than it was in July 2008….

There are quite a few blogs in the blogosphere who tend to get the PPACA wrong and conflate the issues of it well beyond what is reasonable and truthful. Maybe…

…Care, known more commonly as Obamacare, to succeed? Realistically speaking it will take a lot of things for the ACA to be a real success, but one vital area will…

…for whining and threatening layoffs, and of course Wal-Mart is well know as the “evil empire” of employers (the ACA part-time employment provision is often referred to as the “Wal-Mart…

…The Democratic leaders intended to fix and improve ACA in conference committee, but the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts made that unnecessary, so the unpolished version was passed.)  …