The Marginal Tax Rate Barrier
In a future post, I will estimate how much extra funds the government could receive by raising taxes on upper income brackets. One might suppose that the maximum amount available is simply the total after-tax ....
Category: Geography/Economics/Politics
Post Election FB Diary. (3) Reading for the Growing Threat
Yes it was a coup attempt. Here's Why Brilliant article by international relations expert Fiona Hill connects the dots to show how all of Trump's actions have been building to an illegal seizure of power. ....
Post-Election FB Diary (2) After the Explosion
6 January 5:15pm Trump message to protesters invading the Capitol: he loves them and everyone knows he won the election. This is the president you gave us, Trump voters. 6 January 8:54pm Not a huge ....
Post-Election FB Diary. (1) Before the Explosion
Looking back at the two months after the election is like watching someone in a horror movie who isn't quite sure that there is a killer on the loose. Here are some of my Facebook ....
McCarthy Raises Temperature on Democrats
Republican's Greene Problem House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) decried Democratic moves against Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene is a new Congress member who was given a committee assignment by McCarthy even though ....
Trump Popularity After Capitol Attack
[update, 12/18/2021] Almost a year later, US democracy remains in a state of emergency, with the (correct) belief that Biden is the rightful winner of the 2020 election at 27% of Republicans, 94% of Democrats, ....
Rioting as Politics by Other Means
In quick succession I read two different accounts of the attack on the capitol: US Representative Pramila Jayapal (R - WA) and others trapped in the House chambers, and Donald Trump calling Senators to lobby ....
COVID: No Good States
I've been hearing increasingly dire reports about Covid infections in the news lately. How bad is it really? Looking at Covid-19 numbers for all the states, it's hard to say that any of them are ....
EU Peak Covid Deaths, US Peak Cases
COVID-19 deaths/person in the EU and UK are about the same as the US this week, as they are in Germany and France. Italy is considerably higher and Spain lower. But... Peaks in deaths continue ....
Quantifying the Congressional Assault on Democracy
In a move that generated derision from legal experts across the political spectrum, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Supreme Court to throw out the votes of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the ....