…who don’t have to pay income tax (but generally pay payroll and other taxes) by asserting that they aren’t personally responsible and enjoying being dependents, Romney’s comment about the reasons…

…in July. Of this, $358 billion is for the first $250,000 of all taxpayers’ earnings, and the remaining $68 billion is for the tax cuts for income above $250,000 ($200,000…

…right, and Nick in his update glances toward more useful thinking: we should be talking, thinking, about units of account, and how value is ascribed to those units. In the…

…Jersey Jazzman asked if his annual evaluation would include a “Sandy variable.” All the talk from Lon Gislanders has been about how Sandy impacted the South Shore and how tomorrow’s…

…more reluctant to talk to pollsters in English than to vote. Nevada is close too, but not close enough for me to bet on the hard to poll Hispanics effect…

(Dan here…a recent talk I attended on water in Burkina Faso reminded me to look at another important issue even for the US) by David Zetland David Zetland is a…

…how much newly created money the government puts into the economy by deficit spending, or takes out with a surplus (destroying more money by taxing than it creates by spending)….

…you on your retirement. This revealing exchange was followed by some politically strategic talk by both candidates about how current retirees shouldn’t be worried, because, as we all know, their…

Here’s an exchange between Tim Worstall and me in the comments to my post below titled “Spain. Please,Mr. Obama, talk about Spain. Please.”: WORSTALL: If you’re going to comment on…

…financial transactions tax (also known as a Tobin tax, after its first proponent) or a gross receipts tax, which would be harder to dodge than the corporate income tax. Barlett…