Questions to A Congressman
…received bipartisan support, such as mental health and criminal justice reform. And one area I am hyper-focused on is renewable energy, which should be a bipartisan issue. Democrats have traditionally pushed clean…
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Social Security, a “pretty good program and we can afford it”
…by Paul Krugman showed up in my inbox and I am sharing it at Angry Bear for its readership. The Clean Little Secret of Social Security It’s a pretty good…
ACA Healthcare Extension
…to Extend ACA Healthcare Subsidies.” Some details. Plans Time-Limited, Clean Extension: The Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act (HR5145), introduced by a bipartisan coalition of House members would offer a…
Data Centers and Water
…environment,” the groups said in a letter to congressional leaders. “Proposals disguised as ‘commonsense’ reforms would weaken the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…
How do Americans get rich? (and stay rich?)
…that: think twice about calling it “income” — even with the Haig-Simons tag attached. I’ve received almost-universal pushback on the “comprehensive income” label, even from the most enlightened (and progressive)…
The Buchanan-MacLean Controversy
The Buchanan-MacLean Controversy The book, Democracy in Chains (with an even more lurid subtitle) by Nancy MacLean, a respected (until now) historian at Duke University makes a strong argument that…