Thursday, February 9, 2012

Conservatives Refute Butler/Heritage Revisionism

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@gregvarner points me to a new article at Forbes where Avik Roy tries in vain to find a reference to the individual mandate before the Her...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Heritage Doubles Down on Individual Mandate Denialism

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As I reported in July , the Heritage Foundation has been bellowing against the Affordable Care Act despite the fact that the critical elemen...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

California, Birthplace of TIF, Axes It

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One of the many innovations California has given the country is that it was the first to adopt tax increment financing, or TIF. TIF is an ex...
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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Tax Justice Network Inaugurates Podcast Series, TaxCast

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The Tax Justice Network has just begun making podcasts on issues of tax havens, tax evasion, and so forth. Called TaxCast , the first podcas...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Expensive Subsidies Help State and Local Governments Drag Down Recovery

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The release of gross domestic product data on Friday highlighted how the contraction of state and local governments has been a drag on econo...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Basics: America's Relative Decline in Health in One Table

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I've reported before on how the U.S. has seen less life expectancy growth than other rich countries, while at the same time increasing ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Jon Stewart Delivers the Goods on Mitt Romney's Taxes

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Mitt Romney claims to simply have been following the law in how he paid his taxes for 2010 and 2011. As we have seen, he was able to use the...