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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]
25 Apr 2015, 11:03 am by Schachtman
By adopting a more nuanced analysis, the Second Edition deprived defense counsel of a readily citable source for the proposition that low relative risks do not support inferences of specific causation. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The surprising fact is that the high level of anger about taxes in the United States is inversely correlated with essentially all of the reasons that people sometimes offer for being against taxation: the U.S. collects about the same amount in taxes as it has in the past (that is, our tax rate has not risen since the 1940s), we are a low-tax country by international standards, and we do not actually use the tax system to engage in more than token redistribution from the rich to the poor. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The United States cannot advance as a nation unless it rediscovers its historical commitment to high-quality, low-cost universal education, which will require us to remember that this country’s greatness and economic dominance have been largely driven by its leadership in educating its citizens. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If we simply assume that low student performance on tests is indicative of a real problem, however, what is causing it? [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 10:45 am by Wells Bennett
It sets a dangerously high threshold for a domain with comparatively low barriers to entry. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 6:44 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
” Under President Reagan, the gas tax increased by five cents per gallon (in 1982); the next increase came under President George H. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There, the Court could decide that the subsidies for low-income Americans that allow them to buy insurance under the new health law must be limited to the dozen or so states that have set up their own insurance exchanges. [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]
7 Nov 2014, 3:22 pm by Gary P. Rodrigues
Robinette, Peerless Mentor: An Appreciation by George D. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 9:12 am
(quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts §911, comment h (1977)). [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Despite the extreme increase in partisanship that has gripped the nation for the past four years, there are some questions on which many Democrats actually agree with Republicans. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Moreover, the assumptions under the “low-cost” scenario are hardly pie-in-the sky, but in fact are based on quite reasonable guesses of future economic outcomes. [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]
21 May 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” Within a month, all but the shouting seemed to be over, with Republicans having failed to connect the low-level misfeasance to anything with political salience. [read post]