So I finished reading the The Deal (it took a couple hours at most), and the result was a fleshing out of pretty much everything that was in the original blog post. The long-term deficit isn’t hard to understand: it’s caused by health-care benefits that are out of whack with taxes. It’s really that simple.… Continue reading The Deal II
The Deal
I saw this article a couple of days ago and it piqued my interest so much, I had to buy the e-book (it’s only 1.99!). I haven’t yet read it, so I’ll give my full review later, but the top 10 takeaways from Ezra Klein were true enough to make me want to comment already…
Tax Incidence Reviewed
I have nothing better to do on a Saturday morning than go over finances. In doing so, I realized that I had miscalculated the tax incidence graphs I had previously created. The biggest change is for payroll taxes in college: instead of looking at my W2s I just assumed I was paying full Social Security… Continue reading Tax Incidence Reviewed
Consequences
I’m with Atrios on this one. Last night, I heard a story on Marketplace about a guy who was long-term unemployed, and then got a job writing for Mad Men. The end. It was a wholly unfulfilling story, essentially saying nothing other than “This guy found a way.” Nothing on how, or what is happening… Continue reading Consequences
2012 Tax Incidence
So I’ve done our 2012 taxes, and as such, I can update my last blog post on tax incidence. Graphs below…
Our Paris Trip
We left for Paris on Saturday, 5 January, flying overnight through Amsterdam to arrive in Paris on Sunday. We left the following Monday morning, so we were in Paris for over a week. Plenty of time to hit all the highlights. FYI, all pictures are here.
New Photos Up: Paris Trip
I’ve put new photos up of our trip to Paris. I’ll have a full recap of the trip soon, but for now, enjoy the pictures!
A few thoughts
A few random thoughts and links from the past couple weeks: Obama the Communist has presided over a shrinking of the government workforce. You don’t see that reported very often. Once again, more proof that we need to disassociate health insurance coverage from employment entirely (a personal story along these lines will be posted later…)… Continue reading A few thoughts
Ditching Health Insurance
I’ve harped on this issue before, but I still don’t get it: why aren’t businesses in favor of universal health care and severing the link between employment and insurance? Businesses don’t really want to be in charge of insurance plans; if they could get away with it, they would drop insurance. But they can’t, and… Continue reading Ditching Health Insurance
That’s a tax plan!
The Center for American Progress (CAP) came out with a tax plan. And it’s a pretty darn good one! It’s actually fairly close to a plan I’d support. It raises the top bracket to Clinton-era levels, it caps deductions, it increases the capital gains tax and the tax on dividends, it gets rid of the… Continue reading That’s a tax plan!