…time Mrs. Rdan asks why I spend a lot of time blogging, I’ll use it. From Onalytica Indexes: ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC INDICATORS A small number of blogs have a higher rank…

…are being allowed to construct an alternative reality that absolves them of responsibility for the ruined lives all around us. The reality is that people in positions of authority chose…

…policies that make sense for today rather than 100 years ago (such as continuing subsidies for alternative energy while finally ending the various subsidies for the extractive industries like gas…

…alternative minimum tax). As could be expected, lower rates lived on (and were lowered even more by Bush) but much of the base broadening was short-lived: lobbying by the privileged…

…from miscellaneous tax reductions, notably abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax. Step 3: Determine how much of that income you have. Step 4: Ask what taxes have to be raised to…

…into Brooklyn, said Jonathan Bowles, director of the Center for an Urban Future. Several years ago, the well-heeled stopped seeing Brooklyn as a bargain-priced alternative to Manhattan — but kept…

…contributions than the current combination of Pay/Go and Trust Fund investments provide. And it is here that the jaws of the logic trap start to close on privatizers. Detailed discussion…

…to fully fund such investment through purchases of newly issued 6 month bonds I really love this idea (the alternative being the very iffy notion of the Fed buying REITs,…

…with your health, and forgo healthcare to buy food or the alternative is to diet? Investing more money in the military, expanding our military presence, and cutting domestic programs; Rep….

…and looking only at U.S. income taxes, there were 35,061 households, or 0.88 percent, that paid nothing.” Id. The Alternative Minimum Tax was initially enacted to deal with the general…