America’s approaching debt crisis is the topic de jour, both in the news room and in the living room. We have the fiscal cliff, theRead More
We Need More Revenue
I came across in interesting sentence in the CBO analysis of Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: “The path for revenues as a percentage of GDP was specifiedRead More
Why Money in Politics Matters
I often hear a lot of people complain about politicians buying votes – outspending their opponents to win elections. This pisses me off. Not theRead More
The Private Sector
[DRAFT] Carpe Diem posted the following chart, which I’ve seen elsewhere. I find it interesting because of the strong rightward lean of that blog. So,Read More
Health Care circa 1993
Before Obamacare was coined, and labeled as the source of all evils a very similar proposal was introduced in the Senate. This was a responseRead More