…35% to 39.6%. As Tucker points out, this proposal increases the taxes for everybody making >$400K by the same amount – whether their income is $500K or $50 million. Holding…

by Robert Waldmann At Frum forum Justin Green extensively quotes Jeb Golonkin on how conservatism could be much better if conservatives made specific policy proposals. Sad but true, almost all…

…actually involved in the bailout is that Romney’s proposal is nonsense, because there were no private sector entities capable of making loans of the necessary scale at the time. I…

…to build a desalination plant in Carlsbad (San Diego County), California for around a decade, and I’ve been skeptical of that proposal (earlier posts) — mostly because water consumption in…

Via Economist’s View on reducing oil imports and energy independence for the US is reader Min’s proposal, which I have unabashedly stolen: For forty years politicians have been promising energy…

In June of 2008, Ron Paul made a radical proposal: the Fed should simply burn all the U.S. Treasuries it’s currently holding, reducing the government (U.S. Treasury) debt by $1.6…

…wins in the recent Wisconsin recall elections. During a press conference earlier on Friday, Obama had called on Congress to pass a jobs proposal that would prevent layoffs and rehire…

…$100 dollar a ton carbon tax. Fine policy, but not a policy proposal of any relevance to the US debate. The most extreme case is someone (not you a friend…

…be done? In a talk Faux gave at the Economic Policy Institute August 15th, he explained that he didn’t see the need to give a laundry list of policy proposals…

…of long term Treasuries. My inner weasel notes that this is still not the Gagnon proposal (as amplified beyond all political possibility by yours truly). I would advocate the purchase…