In Sunday's New York Times, Richard Thaler laments that “as a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice...
For months, astute observers called Medicaid the “sleeper issue” of the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act deliberations. Last Thursday, they were proven correct. A majority...
In its long-awaited decision on the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can require people to either have health insurance or...
Twenty-five years ago, Princeton economist David Bradford designed what he called the X Tax . The idea--a progressive consumption tax--generated lots of discussion among tax...
I get the impression that many Americans believe Medicare is financed like Social Security. They know that a portion of payroll taxes goes to Social...
Yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who rarely gives public speeches, laid out his agenda for tax reform. Just for fun, I compared...
