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The apparent cave in on Bush tax cuts for the wealthy is the most depressing episode of the Obama presidency.
Archive for the ‘Taxation’ Category
September 30th, 2010
Category: Rhetoric and Framing, Taxation
The Third Way’s brilliant idea: sending taxpayers a receipt for what they’ve bought.
September 25th, 2010
Among the standard bleats of those who want [to be heard asking for] less taxes on everyone, and want to actually have less taxes on on the bleater personally, is a sort of pugnacious Babbitty claim that “I earned my money by my own efforts and when the government takes it from me it’s theft.” [...]
September 23rd, 2010
Category: 2010 Democratic Agenda, Campaign 2010, Democrats in Congress, Politics and Leadership, Taxation, Watching Conservatives
On the tax cuts, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid made the best of bad situation; blaming them for caving risks creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
September 19th, 2010
People like me should pay higher state income taxes in Illinois.
September 18th, 2010
Prof. Henderson’s judgment continues to fail him, and he apparently went up against Brad Delong, something the really smart and really wise and really well-informed do with great caution. Who was it that rush in where angels fear to tread, again? Remember the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail? Brad attached a rocket engine [...]
September 18th, 2010
Through Glenn Reynolds, whither I wandered because of Mark’s post about something else entirely, I came upon this truly amazing pasticcio of mendacity, ignorance, and small-minded cupidity. [UPDATE 20-21/IX: the original post was taken down; instead there's this and a cache of the original post is here.] It’s worth a close look because the author [...]
July 31st, 2010
Category: California Politics, Education policy, Policy Analysis, Prisons and penal policy, Taxation
…are about the same size and shape. It’s an iron law of sound household management, ignore it at your peril, and I know you will recognize its absolute unvarying truth, that you can put a baseball in your fruitbowl only if you’re willing to take one apple out of it. So what? Does any sane [...]
July 21st, 2010
Kent Conrad makes clear his relationship to excrement.
