Middle Class Political Economist

I grew up in a middle-class family, the first to go to college full-time and the first to earn a Ph.D. The economic policies of the last 40 years have reduced the middle class's security, and this blog is a small contribution to reversing that.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Senate healthcare bill costs 15 million their health insurance next year, 22 million by 2026

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One consequence of electing the popular vote loser is that the official winners act as if they have a mandate for the most extreme version ...
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Monday, June 19, 2017

Video series for "Rethinking Investment Incentives"

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As regular readers will recall, I contributed to the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment's book , Rethinking Investment Incentive...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Kansas Republicans abandon Brownback; raise taxes over his veto

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Remember Kansas's great tax-cutting experiment under Governor Sam Brownback? (Me, sarcastic?) As always in Arthur Laffer and Stephen Mo...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Consumer Reports: Obamacare reduced bankruptcy rate

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A new article at consumerreports.org suggests that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act* (PPACA) played a substantial role in the...
Friday, April 28, 2017

European Union ends relocation subsidies

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This isn't actually news, but it's news to me, and it's something you need to know. Greg LeRoy sent me an article by James Meek...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

How wrong is IBD on California? Let us count the ways

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Investor's Business Daily has a hit piece out on California, as you can tell from the headline, "Taxifornia does it again." ...
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Friday, March 31, 2017

Tax Justice Network Taxcast, March 2017: Brexit and Tax Havens; Losses to Tax Avoidance

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Will Brexit harm the City of London's tax haven? With weak regulation, money laundering, and satellites like BVI, Cayman Islands, and Je...
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Kenneth Thomas
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Fellow, Good Jobs First. Author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Palgrave, 2011). Available for research, consulting, and expert testimony. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers'.
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