Mallory Factor condones political pandering over leadership: Americans do not want higher taxes … Most Democrats in Congress are ignoring the two-thirds of their constituents who want tax rates to…
I always like this query from AB: Speaking of trade, wandering through the grocery store today, I noticed that they were selling tax software. This naturally lead me to wonder…
Michael Mandel replies to James Hamilton: Moreover, he also doesn’t point that the real consumption per person is actually reduced by the amount of additional savings … The pro-savings people…
…against George Bush. By this thesis, NRO had to follow the excellent op-ed from Bruce Bartlett with more free lunch nonsense from the likes of Victor Canto: Other than President…
Mark Thoma does a nice job of reviewing Andrew Roth’s argument for the DeMint Social Security proposal. To be honest, I have stopped saying much about these free lunch fallacies…
Rick Santorum and Lindsey Graham plan to join James DeMint to propose that we place the Social Security surpluses into personal retirement accounts. Steve Soto provides a very nice discussion…
…some combination of Social Security/the bank/the stock market/etc. These investments have total risk X and expected return Y. Now anyone who thinks Y is too low, and is willing to…
Kudlow’s latest is entitled Evidence, Evidence, and More Evidence. Yet, he fails to link to or even mention the title of a single study preferring to write: Before making her…
…conclusions unappealing to free-market types. OK, Luskin forgot to mention the point of John’s last sentence. The point of Abel’s piece is that low-income households often are not credit-constrained but…
…public support for free trade. An ad that I noticed in the Washington Post this morning is reproduced below. I was struck by this invocation of Clinton in an appeal…