Tag: Economics
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Why Non-Profits Annoy Me
Fund raising by non-profits drives me crazy. I don’t think non-profits take the task very seriously, are not bold enough, and annoy people by living from fund drive to fund drive. People or organizations that might donate pick up on this dynamic and do what the non-profit asks: give nickles and dimes. Frankly, I don’t…
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Gasoline And Fun
My partner and I want to travel to the upper peninsula of Michigan to visit a friend this summer, but the 2,300 mile round trip cost has caused us pause; is the $300+ bill for gas (just gas), worth the three or four days we’ll spend visiting? I don’t know. We’re strapped for cash, and…
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Greedy Bunch
The Greedy Bunch rocks! Oh, do they rock. GW Bush, in one of his grandest acts of boosterism, is having his economic forum in Waco, TX, so that we can all see how well the economy is performing, despite all his efforts to sabotage it (see the 60% of the tax cuts that went to…
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perfect capitalism
It cracks me up that the current business mischief affecting the economy are often attributed to a “perfect storm” of events, and not simply as a matter of corporate malfeasance. It seems that if a conflation of events did not occur, we would never have known about the underlying accounting problems. I don’t think it…
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plutocracy
There is an interesting piece by Paul Krugman in the New York Times titled Plutocracy and Politics. I like Krugman; he is a liberal economist (not radical, mind you), and doesn’t shy away from giving somebody a shot to the gut. My only gripe with him is that he doesn’t think the econmic system we…
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Learning about tax expenditures
Do yourself a favor and learn what “tax expenditures” are because that is how the government, after lobbying from special interests groups, give away the store. Here is how the Digest of Educational Statistics describes tax expenditures: “Losses of tax revenue attributable to provisions of the federal income tax laws that allow a special exclusion,…