Dylan Matthews has a typically excellent explainer about taxing the rich. Just click the link. I have one thought. Matthews is soft on capital income. Matthews wrote Saez and Diamond…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-17/hiltzik-hedge-funds-pge https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/what-led-to-boeings-737-max-crisis-a-qa/ https://www.salon.com/2020/12/05/boeing-737-max-crashes-were-not-isolated-events-theyre-the-result-of-deregulation/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/business/boeing-737-max-crashes.html https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/12/02/the-dangers-of-deregulation/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/new-book-on-boeing-and-the-737-max-crisis-to-be-highlighted-at-town-hall-seattle/ https://www.c-span.org/video/?516218-1/flying-blind influence of GE @ ~ 22.30 https://hbr.org/2001/10/inside-boeings-big-move — https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financialization.asp Home » You searched for label/define rich » Page 6 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2013.853865 https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112402#:~:text=Financialization%20refers%20to%20the%20increasing,the%20workings%20of%20the%20economy.&text=Second%2C%20financialization%20has%20shaped%20patterns,change%20in%20the%20broader%20society….

This item raised my eyebrows when I saw it. Joshua Tucker at The Monkey Cage points out that the Republicans are proposing we do exactly that. The idea (NYT, emphasis…

…Big CEOs generally have rich pension plans and other forms of deferred tax compensation that facilitate lowering their tax bills. Rich folk are the buyers of municipal bonds, which again…

…the top rates significantly and cut the rates on the “favorite” form of income of the rich to extraordinarily low rates. See David Cay Johnston, The rich get richer, reuters…

…$250,000 per year are rich. He or she notes that two earner families can be rich by working real hard and that price levels are high in some parts of…

…It makes no sense to define socialism as state control of the means of production. That would imply that all absolute monarchs are socialists. One can define something as democratic…

…this.) Economists: Define Your Terms The biggest takeaway from all this is economists’ need to precisely define their terms, in accounting terms — something they’ve been abysmal at. Dumpster fire?…