…their proposal had offered a better way to achieve the much needed objective of providing universal insurance (or at least coverage for the 30 million aided by the reform legislation),…

…It’s too bad their proposal has been greeted with so much criticism, especially from progressives — who really should look at it as an opportunity to fix Social Security without…

…proposal aside he is working from the same flawed conception of Social Security as almost everyone else, he just adopts them to screw over workers in a slightly more equitable…

…present every argument that supports that proposal even if it is half baked, unbaked or negabaked (frozen ?). However, I can’t resist trying to make sense of the argument (after…

…period. Meaning that any proposal based on a crisis defined by “threatened future benefits” that produces a worse result in 2037 and after is some mixture of ineffectiveness and bait…

…is headed to passage by the Senate this week. See Financial Times, Wall Street Reform Proposal Wins Key Support, July 12, 2010. Perhaps the weakest part of the bill is…

…the debt* will support my proposal. I do mean my subjective mode for the number is exactly zero. Few people will hear of my proposal. Few of them oppose further…

by Linda Beale crossposted at Ataxingmatter Carried Interest: prospects? At the ABA Tax Section meeting in Washington last weekend, there was surprisingly little talk about the carried interest proposal. Carried…

…a few hundred billion. So in the Obama compromise proposal (the first proposal from the Obama administration) the donut tax returned. The bill imposes new taxes on wealthier people. Individuals…

…that Obama had promised to consider a Republican health care proposal and yet he hadn’t considered the House Republican’s health care proposal. Let’s role the tape OBAMA: It’s not enough,…