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29 Sep 2021, 9:15 am
Accordingly, as Prof Buchanan argued last week, Mitch McConnell doesn't want the government to default. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 8:29 am
"If Congress can't force you to eat broccoli, it shouldn't be able to force you to buy or sell broccoli, either. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 5:24 am
Her response: "That time doesn't count, because it is not for the benefit of this semester's students. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
A recent article in The New York Times quoted two prominent conservative economists saying the same thing that liberal economists say.Alan Viard, who has advised Republican candidates and works at a prominent right-wing think tank, concluded that “[t]ax policy is clearly not some overwhelmingly powerful tool that affects growth. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
Worse still, the program is projected to become entirely insolvent—meaning they essentially won’t have any money left to pay out benefits at all—in 2035. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Do we say, “Hey, you can’t do as many pushups as the rest of us, so you can’t help us repel the oncoming assault from thousands of enemy soldiers”? [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
“Why don’t they understand that their taxes are down this year, if only by a little bit? [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
You can’t regulate me, they say, because regulation is bad and free markets are good.The reality is, however, that there was nothing about the original rules that was ordained by God, and other than a reasonable concern for reliance interests and transition rules, there is nothing that should prevent a government from changing the rules in an effort to improve economic outcomes in whatever way that the people want those rules to change.Life under the new set of rules is no more nor… [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm
The general suspicion that “we can’t trust Washington” will have inadvertently been enhanced by one economist being recorded saying what all of his colleagues believe. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
Don’t blame us if Republicans can’t get their own act together. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 9:01 pm
In fact, the CBO noted clearly that “[t]he decline in full-time-equivalent employment stemming from the ACA will consist of some people not being employed at all and other people working fewer hours; however, CBO has not tried to quantify those two components of the overall effect. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
When Republicans have retaken both houses of Congress and have installed either Donald Trump or his anointed successor in the White House in January 2025, what will they do next? [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm
The message: You can’t fault a fella for playing by the rules, because you’d surely do the same thing. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
When President Biden announced that he planned to propose a large infrastructure spending bill, it was all too predictable what would come next. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
“Or, don’t you agree? [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
”) And anyone who fell afoul of Republican belligerence on foreign policy was met with: “Why don’t you move to Russia? [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, Senate Republicans announced that they have decided not to participate in the necessary adjustment of the federal debt ceiling at the end of this month, playing politics once again with the full faith and credit of the United States of America. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 2:55 am
In a post here 11 days ago, Neil Buchanan looked forward to the Obama Inauguration as an opportunity for the U.S. to "become the good guys again. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 8:15 am
If, as the House health bill proposes, we raised tax rates on high-income people by roughly 4%, then a person whose taxable income rises from $300,000 to $310,000 would have roughly four hundred fewer dollars than if the bill had never passed.But isn't the worry that we will not stop at the $300,000/year earners? [read post]
20 Mar 2010, 6:27 am
Disagreeing with me regarding 2-D vs. 3-D, he added: "Avatar should be regarded as an IMAX 3D movie, that happened to be shown in Digital 3D and 2D because IMAX theaters aren't the norm. [read post]
