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Raising Future Taxes Yet Again

…argument: specious logic; ignorant confusion of correlation with causation; deliberate simple-mindedness; or even the “Donald Duck theory of economic growth“. Whichever label you choose, it is, unfortunately, also just par…

Train Drain

…expected to rise by just 6 percent to 13 percent over the next 10 years. Why so little? Many well-known factors work against the growth of American manufacturing, including shortages of appropriately…

SOCIAL SECURITY: IT’S JUST MATH

Update: By Dale Coberly (was inadvertently omitted as author, although regulars know and the label names him) SOCIAL SECURITY: IT’S JUST MATH or how to lie with numbers “Math doesn’t…

…economic growth and too little credence to human needs for community that require allocating the burdens and benefits of the tax system fairly among the people and entities that make…

Paul Volcker Feb.20

…of the world is doing pretty well, and so long as the rest of the world holds up, for various reasons, including great growth of American exports, maybe we’ll get…