…bears this out: at least in prosperous countries, greater wealth equality correlates with greater long-term prosperity. For those who care to hear a personal account of how modest, widespread wealth…

My last post prompted me to revisit one from last May that I thought Bears might appreciate. For your delectation: Conservatives love to point out that our employer-based health insurance…

…to the charitable contribution deduction for phantom gain we’ve never paid tax on to the preferential rates for unearned income–and pity the upper crust that bears the “immense tax increases…

A couple of our gentle Bears have suggested that I repost this over here. Ask and ye shall receive. It’s a good complement to and demonstration of the point I…

…be interesting. Any thoughts from the Bears? Rusty From an e-mail from guest contributor Michael Halasy: We don’t necessarily know either. My research (Operations Research with a Workforce focus) is…

…that bears even a remote resemblance to what you hear from the crowd who perennially cites the Laffer curve so authoritatively. Which brings up another piece of the joke. In…

…would, of course, be worse than no tax at all; as the least desirable of all taxes is the tax which bears heavily upon the honest as compared with the…

…and lots of comments. I don’t care if half of them are indignant. Also I think it is good for the blog if there are debates between angry bears (including…

…in the public arena, but I was minimizing my role and actual joy that I get from AB. I have not shared this with the Bears for some reason, for…

…yet but bears repeating, and a moment (5) of hope that really does required Congressional action, as Stan Collender noted today. But the three good points are things several of…