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Fix or “repeal and replace” is a political issue.
“So you've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a w More...
No question these are scary times. The new President, to be charitable, has made a lot of rooky mistakes. His grasp on reality slips in the face of any criticism, and he is faster to go on an ad hominem attack than a pit bull. Things are pretty scary on the other side as well. Most of th More...
The way the US currently taxes corporate income is toxic for American workers when coupled with globalization. It turns free trade, which I think is a good thing, into unfair trade. It is a bizarre structure which only its parents – lobbyists and those corporations which benefit from it – could l More...
Which explains a lot of where we are today
Quotes are from Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project describing the work of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman an More...
A frightening study
We know from recent experience that political experts don’t have a very good track record but we’d all like to think that a doctor’s opinion is a fact. This scary old story is from Michael Lewis’ new book More...
Raise the Minimum Wage AND Remove Disincentives for Work.
This is a radical non-partisan proposal; probably both the left and right will hate it.
The national and Vermont unemployment rates ignore huge numbers of people who cou More...
If you’re worried, as I am, that President Trump will both threaten civil liberties and expand the power of the Presidency even further than Obama took it, you should support the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. His record indicates that he will defend the constitution and our rig More...
Recently I visited my 18-month old grandson and his parents in Lanzhou, China. The sign below is from the playground school he goes to a couple of times each week.
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