by Linda Beale Reform that “high” statutory corporate tax rate? Not necessary I got an interesting item pushed to me from an online-MBA website blog where today’s item was on…

…I know, no politician dares discuss reversing welfare reform. I think the still widely accepted conclusion that welfare reform was a great success is based on two gross and obvious…

…of the other plans. But however you slice it clearly the goal of ‘reform’ is not to deliver an appreciably better result for workers, at best they are being asked…

Robert Waldmann Senator Mark Warner said something about derivatives reform. I kept reading a version of what he said which seemed implausible to me. I had trouble finding a transcript…

…Edwards proposed a reform with a public option. I only add a Leninist argument for centrist compromise. The worse it is the better it is. The 55 year limit is…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Useful Models for Reform? President Obama often cites the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic as models for providers in a new era of health…

by Bruce Webb Andrew Biggs references an editorial from the Charleston SC Post and Courier Advance Entitlements Reform However, President Obama’s major entitlement-reform offensive strikes on the Medicare front. He…

Robert Waldmann I argued that the conventional view that welfare reform was a success is based on the coincidence that the economy boomed right after welfare war reformed, the journalists…

…for deficit reform is Social Security. WaPo: The mounting debt has raised an alarm on Capitol Hill, where some Republicans and moderate Democrats are pressing Obama to tackle the looming…

by rdan The Baucus-Snowe bill S.3101 Medicare reform in the Senate is up for a vote. This aspect of the Social Security programs has not been discussed in depth here,…