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25 Sep 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Merkel is so low-key that most Americans have probably never heard of her. [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Amazingly, however, as described in a 1992 article by Paul Krugman, that study’s results were driven by the simple reality that people (no matter their lifetime income status) almost surely have low-to-nonexistent incomes during their college years, rising incomes during middle age, and then lower incomes during retirement. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The (Expired) Academic Legitimacy of “Tax Freedom” and “Forced Labor” All of the above, however, could be merely dismissed as yet one more example of the low level of political argumentation that has become the signature of the American activist right. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For example, inequality has become so extreme that, according to an article in The Washington Post summarizing a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, there are no longer any places in America where a minimum-wage worker can afford to live in a two-bedroom apartment.Yet conservatives refuse even to discuss increasing minimum wages, and the self-described “pure” conservatives even insist that minimum wage laws are an unnatural abomination that prevents markets… [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 2:06 pm by Michael Cannon
Cannon (@mfcannon) is director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute and coauthor (with Jonathan H. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
(Those two general elections were Democratic victories, of course, but Democrats also lost the House majority in 1994 for the first time in forty years, with Clinton deliberately distancing himself from those supposedly extreme Democrats in Congress, and since then they have steadily lost ground by being timid and uncertain.)The result was that Democrats allowed themselves to think that they needed to lie low, lest anyone be able to claim that they are for something that Republicans and… [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  A one-year extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed, and five-year extensions of various tax credits for low-income workers. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
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]
30 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  What is important is making that borrowing sustainable, which simply means keeping the government’s total borrowing low enough to allow us to pay interest on the debt on an ongoing basis. [read post]
6 May 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Morale at the IRS is at an all-time low, and the agency needs more than ever to guarantee that it retains the shrunken number of experienced people who still have the ability to make the agency work reasonably well. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” Reminding readers of an inspector general’s report in 2013 that some low-level IRS staff had engaged in inappropriate screening of some applications from nonprofit political groups for tax-exempt status—even though there is still nothing to support claims that the IRS’s errors were politically motivated—the report makes this rather astonishing statement on its very first page of text: As a result of the IRS’s blatant misconduct, Congress significantly… [read post]
6 Dec 2020, 4:45 pm by INFORRM
A statement from Rahman Lowe Solicitors, who represented Cage in its libel claim, said it had seen an email to an editor from the journalist who wrote the story raising concerns that “the below article was re-nosed in editing without consulting me to change the meaning of the top line”. [read post]