…think about ways to downsize banks. I’d prefer Merkel & Levin’s proposal for limiting size by setting liability and asset caps but surely we should not continue to refuse to…

…ironic in context). Well this proposal tied into some things I have been thinking about in relation to my own life situation to add up to the question “Can anyone…

…2011 budget proposal calls for extending most of the tax cuts –i.e., Obama does not want to let the 2000 rates return as slated under current law for those singles…

…which did not seriously consider proposals to break up the banks. But it could not block the issue from an airing in the Senate; and once aired, the break-up-the-banks proposal…

…the comments on the proposal and the documents. REITs, RICs, partnerships and tax exempt organizations are not required yet to file Schedule UTP. One of the issues the IRS is…

Robert Waldmann An earlier post on this topic seems to have been eaten by blogger (update it’s back). This post is roughly half roughly retyping. I have two proposals (last…

…once. ___________________________________ This is more polemic than serious policy proposal, but it works. It fixes DI and simply brings forward the trigger for the mild increases in OAS that will…

…and an attempted murder may be partly chance, but it can also be partly based on determination. My proposal was like locking up people who will commit crimes but haven’t…

…at the resilience of the language. The conformity to Treasury’s wording was no coincidence. “That was just something we pulled straight from the administration’s proposal,” Kirstin Brost, a spokesman for…

…do need to rebalance our budget once we are through this crisis, and a good place to begin is by getting rid of tax loopholes that don’t make sense and…