…Russell Sobel of The Citadel gives us this: Fixing disaster relief is simple: greater use of decentralized markets, and focusing government on its proper role. After all, “Economists from Adam…

…question, what should we keep?” DEBATE MODERATOR JOHN KING: Including disaster relief, though?” ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our…

…reforms are a proportional income tax, a proportional consumption tax, a flat tax, a flat tax with transition relief, and a progressive variant of the flat tax called the ‘X…

…information about products’ energy use. Label is voluntary, and Congress ordered it The Energy Star label is voluntary for products that meet certain efficiency levels, and differs from Department of…

…a bit of background on tax cut rationales and deficits. Back in the old days of the Bush regime, the tax cutters tended to claim that tax cuts would create…

…the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law. Based on what we know about Trump’s income from past tax returns that have been made public, if just one of those expiring provisions–lower individual tax rates–were instead…

…afterthought.” Yet revenue-raising is THE PRIMARY REASON WE HAVE TAXES. Congress should not be engaging in protracted tax reform negotiations that ignore the fundamental problem with our tax code: It…

by Bruce Webb Strengthen Social Security a coalition of progressive organizations determined to protect and strengthen Social Security, coordinated and hosted by Social Security Works (or maybe by now SSW…

Germany Organizing Anti-Trump Coalition Mark Thoma th other day links to a story in Der Spiegel about a visit to Japan by new German Foreign Minister, Heike Maas. He met…

As Dan Crawford posted below, SCOTUSblog linked in its daily Round-up feature this morning to my AB post yesterday about Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which is being…