…a critical mass. When the result is the same as if you have just fought (and won) a war, what comes next for your “coalition.” Henry Farrell, who appears to…

…was one, a cluster-fuck of cosmic proportions. The government, Fianna Fáil in coalition with The Greens and a few independents, lied through their teeth and kept telling the Irish taxpayer…

…candidate Little’s support for Tea Party “free market” with the “absence” of government regulation). On tax cuts, see, e.g., Senate Republicans Firm on Tax Cuts for Rich, Reuters, Sept. 13,…

…choice to alienate the New Dealers was freely made in the summer of 2009, Obama had a chance to reform the New Deal Coalition and even to drag Progressives along…

…evade US taxation on their US-based insurance premiums? Perhaps. We do not fully understand the incidence of taxation, so it may be that some of the tax cost will be…

…the country for cuts in government spending up to 20 percent as the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition lays the groundwork for an austerity program to last the whole parliament. Their…

…I have been worried. This seems like the same center-right coalition to undo the New Deal that has been rampaging in the country for four decades now–reaganomics, and with no…

…not have the phone number of the tax collector at the IRS. If you choose to pay taxes in cash, the government will give you a receipt–and shred the bills….

…that followed there was a significant conservative political coalition that seemed to be growing in strength over time. Today it is increasingly difficult to believe anything of the kind. …….

…industrial policies was essential, first, to induce more-than-free-market investment in activities that the government deemed important for the economy’s transformation, and second, to sustain a political coalition in support of…