…And for someone who earns at the cap for the best 35 years (equivalent to over 110 thousand dollars today) 4.5% nominal, if paid by worker and employer, no wife…

…that must be just fine because “that is the way it has always been, right?” As it was I advocated raising the income cap on fica and taxing capital gains…

…and others, including, brilliantly, Salon’s Brian Beutler, have pointed out, she gains such benefits as the removal of an annual coverage cap, the removal of a lifetime coverage cap, the…

…of different increases in the tax “cap” [the level above which payroll taxes are not assessed, on the theory that Social Security is insurance for which “enough is enough”]. The…

See update at bottom. Pavlina Tcherneva’s chart has been getting a lot of play out there: Vox/Matthew Yglesias labeled it “The most important chart about the American economy you’ll see…

…wholly-owned subsidiary. There’s a pretty good case for calling that $1 million in cap gains “income.” Now of course, not all revaluation/cap gains come from retained earnings and increases in…

…1, which provides a great visualization of Irish income per capita, tax rates, and developments in the European Union. Chart 1: Ireland’s GNP per capita, relative to European GNP per…

…are down roughly 7% year-over-year (click for source): Total U.S. equities market cap one year ago was about $20 trillion: So a 7% equity decline translates to a $1.4-trillion hit…

…I wonder how this will play into the gov., the pres., the Koch Bros, CAP and other supposedly lib and prog. think tanks wanting to let prisoners out of prisons…

…the best mechanism by which a financial institution would be pared down would be for the government to give them parameters such as a cap-size and permit the institutions to…