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Financial Arsonists ?

alternative to the Bush proposal. Focused on mortgage insurance, the one-page alternative plan was presented to reporters at a briefing. The plan calls for the U.S. government to offer insurance…

Soc Sec XXXIII: Medicare Finance

…C is Medicare Advantage (private insurance alternative) and Part D is Drugs. As General Fund programs they are not particularly walled off in the way Part A is with results…

BW on Soc Sec X: the Danger of Low Cost

…time I didn’t have posting privileges. People who follow Social Security issues understand that in addition to the Intermediate Cost Alternative whose dates and numbers are universally reported in the…

Tax Reform

…recommend two alternative tax plans, both of which would limit or eliminate almost all tax deductions, including the ones for state and local income and property taxes. …The plans are…

Abolishing Sales Taxes

…level — which is okay, since that’s where the Democratic Party actually still has some power. This would present a clear alternative to what has amounted to a gradual (and…

The AMT The Alternative Minimum Tax, or AMT, is the provision in the tax code that requires filers to calculate their taxes in two ways: the usual way, with the…

…incentive to find an alternative resolution than the one they have chosen: to try to deprive the president of the services of his trusted aides and to mire the White…