Archive for the ‘taxes’ Category
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The Business of Business
Posted on January 16, 2013
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s,...
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The Clock
Posted on January 2, 2013
Time is slowly but surely running out on the Obama Administration. The small tax agreement passed by the House last night makes it harder for Obama to do other things...
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Explaining Plan B
Posted on December 21, 2012
It’s Barack Obama’s fault. I know that seems reflexively partisan, but the reality is that John Boehner and Barack Obama haven’t built up enough trust to actually conclude a deal...
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Opportunity Cost, Opportunity Lost
Posted on December 13, 2012
According to Wikipedia: “Opportunity cost is the cost of any activity measured in terms of the value of the next best alternative forgone (that is not chosen). It is the...
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Reinvent Our Tax Code
Posted on December 11, 2012
First published in The Hill. Isn’t it time that we reinvent our tax code? Negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff” have stalled over whether policymakers should accept 98 percent of...
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