Impertinent Economist
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Liberal Case for Entitlement Reform
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(This is a belated repost of something I wrote on my Forbes blog last week.) As expected, the President's Budget proposed modest c...
The Tax Complexity Lobby
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You might think that everyone hates tax complexity, but you’d be wrong. Two factions like things just the way they are: tax software comp...
Monday, April 1, 2013
Obamacare Bans April Fool’s Day!
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Another basic right falls victim to Obamacare A little known provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly kno...
Saturday, March 9, 2013
The Economy is Finally Showing Signs of Life: Don't Sabotage it!
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Finally, the economy is showing strong signs that the six-year slump may be coming to an end. 236,000 people found work in February, fa...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The Amazon Book Jungle
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Tracking the elusive book rank in the Amazon Jungle. My new book, Taxes in America: What Everyone Wants to Know , with Joel Slemrod, ...
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Big Spending Republicans
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Most voters seem to agree that Mitt Romney would do a better job of taming the debt. He certainly talks a lot about it. During the pri...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Repeal the NCAA Ticket Tax Break
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If you want to get good football or basketball season tickets at a top tier NCAA program, you often have to make an additional “contribu...
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