It is on sale, by the way outside the room here. John has long been one of the leading voices on the intersection of science and Public Policy. And make no mistake, however calmly, reasonably expressed, his is a very contrary invoice. It was johns New York Times column, the big city, which ran from the mid 90s until 2002, that first made me a fan of his work. There, he took on any number of prevailing myths about cities. From the efficacy of rent control to the root causes of homelessness to environmental policy. One remarkable column was his irritation at Rosie Odonnells relentless public criticism of mayer Rudy Giulianis use of Law Enforcement to get the homeless off of new york city sidewalks back in the 90s. So how would odonnells, hometown deal with a similar problem john wondered . So he let his beard grow for a few days, he did not shower, then he dressed himself up in dirty clothes in a torn parka and headed up where he plopped himself down on the sidewalk right in front of odo
we are the listeners concerns this morning on borders, that is something important. in another factor that seems beyond key is economic. what you re getting right now is a lot of people writing economic policy for possible candidates that sound good but is not really optimal in economic terms. what this piece says is if you write economically politically, even in a nonelection year, you get some optimum policy, and voters can tell the difference and do not like you. what do i mean specifically? a child credit sounds great. a lot of us have children. but a child credit is not optimal policy. optimal policy is a reduction in the income tax or capital gains tax. what republican advisers are concerned about is that that makes republicans sound elitist, but it is not elitist when you create a job, and the person who gets that job often is not what some people call elites. i think the word elite ought to be banned from the english, or at least american, language. it is misleading
“Look, folks, you know how many billionaires we have in America today? One thousand. You know what their average rate - tax rate - federal tax rate is? Federal tax rate is 8.5 percent. Raise your hand if you’d trade your tax rate for 8.5 percent. I’m serious. Think about this. There’d be $40 billion raised if they even pay 25 percent.” - President Biden, remarks in Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 18Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.
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The question presented in Moore is: “Whether the 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states.” Specifically in the Moore case, the question is whether Congress may tax as income the Moores’ pro rata share of the undistributed earnings of a corporation in which they are shareholders.