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11 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm
Suppose you are not particularly well versed in economic policy issues, and you have only a passing familiarity with basic concepts that are relevant to the U.S. federal budget. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
When Congress returns from its recess next month, it faces the nearly impossible task of passing a set of appropriations bills that would fund the government beyond September 30, when current appropriations authority expires. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 12:05 pm
Tech Firms with Biggest Overseas Profit Hauls Bloomberg BNA, FATCA in Europe Neil H. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Earlier this year, Republicans could barely contain their glee, as they attempted to claim that the Obama Administration was being engulfed in three “scandals”: (1) claims that the deaths of four diplomats in Benghazi, Libya were caused by the Administration’s incompetence (or worse), (2) the revelations of widespread surveillance of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Administration, and (3) the admission by the IRS that it had used some popular conservative… [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 1:00 pm
Neil H. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Scholars, it sometimes seems, are no less susceptible to fads than are eighth graders. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm
In a Verdict column last October, I described why I had reluctantly concluded that the modern Republican Party has become dominated by a group of people who exhibit the classic symptoms of sociopathy. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm
In February 2010, an insane man killed his family in his home, and then flew his private plane into an IRS office building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and an IRS employee, and injuring fourteen other people. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm
Every Spring, a renewed round of anguished wails arises from Washington, when the annual Social Security Trustees’ report is issued. [read post]
22 May 2013, 9:01 pm
By now, it is becoming abundantly clear that there is no actual scandal behind the supposed “political targeting” of some conservative groups—and, it turns out, of some liberal groups as well. [read post]
8 May 2013, 9:01 pm
There are certain debates that inevitably implicate gay rights, and in which conservatives will take swipes at what they take to be the supposed moral shortcomings of their opponents. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
A small debate erupted this week about whether President Obama’s defeat in the Senate over even the most minimalist gun legislation demonstrates that the President is a weak leader. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm
The Buchanan/Dorf argument, therefore, amounts to saying that the President must spend as Congress ordered him to spend—neither more nor less than the law requires, on the projects for which Congress appropriated funds. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
Legions of economists have spent decades trying to get politicians to understand a simple truth: It is not only acceptable for governments to borrow money on an ongoing basis, but it is—in good times and, especially, in bad times—exactly the right thing to do. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
As readers will well recall, in the 2012 elections, Republicans saw their hopes of defeating President Obama end in an electoral landslide, while their expectation that they would take control of the U.S. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 9:01 pm
All the talk in Washington this week is about the so-called “sequester”—an arbitrary, nearly-across-the-board set of federal spending cuts that will take effect tomorrow, unless Congress and the President act immediately. [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 9:01 pm
On March 27th of this year, the current laws that allow the federal government to operate will expire. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 1:00 pm
Neil H. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 3:00 am
The ABA Tax Section has published 32 News Quarterly No. 2 (Winter 2013): Point & Counterpoint: Tax Incentives for Homeownership—A Lincoln–Douglas Debate Neil H. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm
Failed Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan insists that if the United States continues “down this path, we will have a debt crisis. [read post]
