[Beveridge] was a driven man, right to the end; his last words, enunciated clearly from his death bed at the age of eighty-four, showed that the aging social reformer was still haunted by the memory o...
A lot of what we know about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.
The Tax Complexity Lobby, as Forbes magazine called it, includes tax-preparation firms like H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt, as well as companies that make tax-preparation software
The shortcomings of our system can be grouped into three basic problems: coverage, quality, and cost.
Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated—including that bizarre anti-complexity clause, Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades afte...
Only the richest smidgen of the population had to file a return, and even for them the top tax rate was just 7%.
What had been the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 became the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which it still is today.
But out of twenty-three wealthy countries, the American health care system ranks dead last when it comes to keeping newborns alive.
Seventy-three thousand pages of IRS regulations, he laughed at the very suggestion.
In the 1960s, the corporate tax brought in about 33% of U.S. tax revenues. Today, the same tax provides less than 9% of revenues; that means individual taxpayers have to take up the slack and pay more...
The big gorilla of homeowner tax breaks is the deduction for mortgage interest, which reduces income tax revenues by about $100 billion each year. That is, this one tax deduction costs more than the b...
We pour more money into national defense than anybody else; our defense budgets, in fact, are bigger than those in the next eleven countries combined
Von Köckritz’s entire higher education was free. She considers that perfectly normal—and in Europe, it is.
The number one most serious problem facing American taxpayers. That problem is the complexity of the tax code.
Believe me, Dr. Tamalet summed up, if you wanted that operation in France, you could get itWhich is, of course, the boon and the bane of France's health care system. It offers a maximum of free choice...
A consumption tax like the VAT is paid by everybody, including those who pay no income tax and those who are in the country illegally.
Special preference to an automobile manufacturer incorporated in Delaware on October 13, 1916. That would be General Motors, although the name of the firm does not appear.
Anybody buying a qualified plug-in electric car—the list of approved vehicles includes sleek, sporty cars like the $105,000 Tesla Model S P85D and the $138,000 BMW i8—can subtract up to $7,500 from th...
A Congress that produces something like Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX) in the name of reducing complexity hardly seems likely to agree on any serious changes that would improve the system.
The goal in Japan is not to isolate the criminal from society, but precisely the opposite. A convict is sent back to his neighborhood, family, and job so that the social pressure to fit in and the pai...
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