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Getting Selfish on Taxes

I pay a lot of tax. Being a relatively high earner, entirely through earned income, while living in New York State and New York City, you...

Volume 13: Fiscal Policy, Part II: Spending

This is going to shock you: the Federal Government spends money based on a series of complex, interminable, arcane parliamentary maneuvers,

First 100 Days: The Executive Orders

Reading these in order made me realize the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I’d love to see a place that keeps up steadily with E

Volume 11: Congress: The World's Most Dysfunctional Family

When your approval ratings have been hovering between 10 and 20 percent for nearly a decade, you might want to change things up a bit.

Volume 10: Health Insurance, Part V

What was in the American Health Care Act? How would it have affected the system? Why did it fail to pass the House? What will happen to Obam

Taxes and Growth Rates and Plenty of Charts

What's the most famous thing ever drawn on a dinner napkin? I would say it's probably the Laffer Curve. While the idea had previously...

Volume 9: Fiscal Policy, Part I: Taxes

Where does it come from? “There’s one for you, nineteen for me.” – The Beatles The U.S. Federal Government does almost everything on a...

Will the wall crush Social Security too?

There is, one area where short-term government policy will have a big impact on demographic assumptions: immigration.

Concerning tax plans of the phenomenal variety

I think it's of note that Trump's assurance that his "phenomenal" tax plan is almost ready caused markets to jump on the e

Even more technical detail about Social Security

So I've been meaning to give an update on Social Security since writing Volume 1, but hadn't gotten around to it. But I found a very...