We give ourselves to BIG DATA with every trackable transaction and communication. ” Corporate competition to accumulate information about consumers is intensifying even as concerns about government surveillance grow, pushing down the market price for intimate personal details to fractions of . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, maybe not lose, so much as lose by huge margins. I think that Republicans would have trouble winning a plurality of the youth vote even if they did everything right, but losing the youth vote by twenty-three points at a time of elevated youth unemployment is just brutal. The College . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam argues that low-skill immigration impacts US society differently now than a hundred years ago. Salam writes that the skills gap between low-skill immigrants and native-born American is wider now than in 1900 “and so this particular barrier to assimilation was much . . . . Continue Reading »
Yeah I know I’m late to the party, but here are my two cents, 1. It seems that Bachmann has made her greatest cultural mark as a focus of liberal self-congratulation. I don’t think sneering at a backbench House member who finished dead last in the one presidential delegate selecting . . . . Continue Reading »
Under my argument with Pete’s argument , there were some interesting suggestions that ought to be more public. Pete, Peter Lawler and I carried on the discussion here, but I would like to publicly note some fine arguments by our readers. From Art Deco: The problem, as always, is . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Kate writes: The current progressive tax system is based in a class-envy model of taxation. Maybe for quite a few on the left, but many on the right ( including Greg Mankiw) can support a progressive tax system with no reference to envy. The diminishing marginal utility of the dollar is implicit . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is my argument with Pete this morning. The current progressive tax system is based in a class-envy model of taxation. But we have lived with that for a long time. It has fueled ever bigger government, but we have lived with that for a long time. Our income tax system is . . . . Continue Reading »
and everybody else too. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ben Domenech is one of the shrewder conservative writers out there. He supports a flat tax writing: The whole point of starting with the argument for a flat tax is to end up with a tax structure that looks more like Simpson-Bowles and less like the mess we have today . . . Of course Republicans . . . . Continue Reading »
These conservative reformers are total frauds. They don’t really want to change policy. That’s why they would never support cutting taxes on working-class families partly by eliminating deductions for high-earners. It is also why none of them have come up . . . . Continue Reading »
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