The trust fund can be rescued from insolvency without unpopular taxes on workers, and with significant benefit to economic productivity and the security of the middle class.
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Posted inPolitics
Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills
The Republican majority can no longer be trusted to maintain bipartisan spending-level agreements. So, Democrats should let Republicans figure out how to keep the government open.
Posted inMagazine
In a Biden-DeSantis Race, All Politics Will Be Local
In June 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation blocking local governments from requiring that gas stations in their jurisdictions provide electric vehicle charging stations. It was a classic DeSantis move, like his effort to ban certain books from school libraries: aggressively use state power to overturn decisions by local officials that he doesn’t like. […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
Quick Takes: Trump is Out There On His Own
* The folks at NBC’s First Read point out that Donald Trump seems to be out there on his own. …as the Democratic Party has rallied around Clinton,…Trump is pretty much all alone here in his reaction to Orlando. “I’m not going to be commenting on the presidential candidates today,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […]
Posted inEconomy, Government, Magazine, November/December 2015
Why Denver, Nashville, and Boston Are Booming
Want your city to flourish? Just make it the seat of state government!
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2015
Can This Man Save the Public University?
LSU Chancellor F. King Alexander has a plan for debt-free college. It starts by keeping states from making Washington a sucker.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Welfare with an Ocean View
The federal government spends billions replenishing beaches for the affluent. The bill will soon skyrocket thanks to climate change.
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2015, Magazine
The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Government
While other conservatives say that the American state has become too powerful, Francis Fukuyama argues that it has grown too weak.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2014
Let’s Pay for the Government We Get
Why, someday soon, middle-class taxes will have to go up.
Posted inEconomy, Government, January/February 2014, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Big Beef
Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby.
