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Medicare Extra for All - My Questions
White papers on health policy are seldom cause for me to get excited. As a rule, they are statements of principle, lacking the specifics...


Trump-proof Your State
Let's forget, for a second, what an awful human being Donald Trump is. It's hard, I know - I mean the guy has literally sanitized...

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...

Cut Corporate Taxes, Discourage Hiring
Once upon a time, somebody proposed the elimination of the charitable deduction against income for US Federal income taxes. Doing so...


You Can't Do This on a Postcard
Pointing out the lies being told in furtherance of tax “reform” is hardly an original exercise. Borrowing the successful Obamacare repeal...


Volume 16: Game Theory and the Nuclear Age: Part II
Somehow – and sometimes despite our best efforts – there was no nuclear holocaust. This is the story of how we avoided it and of whether we’


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,


Paul Ryan's Unicorn Tax Postcard
Like his attempts at fiscal discipline, Paul Ryan’s taxes on a post-card plan is made of mystery meat.

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
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