nytimes.com - 10/31/2009
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BARACK OBAMA is, in many ways, the left’s answer to Ronald Reagan . Both came to office as charismatic and self-confident leaders, elected in times of economic crisis and determined to move the economy in a new direction. What is less obvious, however, is that the signature domestic issue in ...
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Marginal Tax Hikes from Health Reform
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
Here is my column in tomorrow's NY Times about the marginal tax rates implicit in the health reform bill making its ways through Congress. Let me add a few additional observations on the topic. ...
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Marginal Revolution —
1. Greg Mankiw's very good column on health insurance and marginal tax rates; Greg adds comment. 2. Somerset Maugham: the perfect traveler? 3. Ten smelly foods from Asia. 4. Slew of Ayn Rand links. 5. The Lehman failure really was at fault; Arnold Kling adds comment. 6. MR is a start-up, as is Modern Principles.
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Marginal Tax Rates
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty —
... , When you take into account the loss of means-tested benefits (e.g., cash assistance, food stamps, housing subsidies, and health insurance), and the taxes that people pay on earned income, the return to working is essentially zero for those in the lower two quintiles of the income distribution. Read the whole thing. And note that Greg Mankiw shows that health care reform will make this worse. For that matter, so might ...
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