Monthly Archives: May 2010
The "Docfix Gimmick" Gimmick
e21 has a staff editorial up today about the jobs bill before Congress and the "doc fix" provision overriding a planned 21% reduction in Medicare physician payments that was supposed to take effect this year. Some of the observations about … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care
Doodling may make you smarter
Told you so, Ms. Reardon: Doodling is a way of passing the time when bored by a lecture or telephone call. Does it improve or hinder attention to the primary task? To answer this question, 40 participants monitored a monotonous … Continue reading
Filed under Life
Amazing Sentences
Greece has been in default roughly 50% of the time since its independence in 1830. So sayeth Carmen Reinhart, testifying at the deficit commission today.
Filed under Economics
Tax Policy Center: Wyden-Gregg More Expensive, Progressive Than Obama Budget
It seems like Congress never wants for pie-in-the-sky tax reform ideas. Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future. The National Sales Tax. The Fair Tax. The Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax. And my personal favorite, the Automated Payment Transaction Tax. The Wyden-Gregg tax … Continue reading
Filed under Economics
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A word about "Hauser's Law"…
The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by David Ranson several days ago making the case for "Hauser’s Law", the observation credited with Hoover Institution fellow W. Kurt Hauser that the U.S. federal tax system reaches a collection ceiling at … Continue reading
USA Today Gets Their Tax Numbers Wrong
There is an article in the Business section of USA Today that’s gotten some play: “Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950.” Here’s a quote: Federal, state and local taxes — including income, property, sales and other taxes … Continue reading
Filed under Economics
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