Showing posts with label Fiscal Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiscal Policy. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2014

See the amount of Federal Tax Refunds issued for the day and tell me this is not inefficient

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Below is a small section of the US Treasury's daily report on various metrics .  It is a short document and has some pretty interesting ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

More evidence the Federal government is a book-keeper and not a doer.

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Here is some isolated data from the just released 2015 Budget Outlook by the White House. Once again I find myself staring at numbers tha...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

A single mom with two kids will get a 39% pay increase if the minimum wage goes to $10.10, right? She will be the first one to tell you NO, not even close! See the numbers here.

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Here is a table (I modified it a little) from The Economix that shows how an increase in the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour will...
Friday, December 13, 2013

US Defense spending from Soup to Nuts. No, really, from soup to nuts...

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From Mother Jones:   See more on defense spending at the link.
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Soft drinks and Federal Food Assistance ("Food Stamps"). See here why Coca Cola is so interested in this relationship...

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Just doing some reading and came across an article on Coca-Cola's lobbying effort to make sure soft drinks are not excluded from purch...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Creating poor incentives: "The Startling Rise of Disability in America"

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National Public Radio (NPR) has a terrific article (and graphs!!) on the rise in the number of people receiving Federal Disability Compensa...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

My short, in simple terms, take on why Medicare will continue to cost more and be a bigger part of the Federal budget for many years to come.

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My short, in simple terms, take on why Medicare will continue to cost more and be a bigger part of the Federal budget for many years to c...
Monday, March 18, 2013

My simple explanation of what a "Tax Expenditure" is---this is a term you WILL hear more about in the coming weeks as we approach ANOTHER budget crisis.

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My take on the difference between a Tax Expenditure and a Government Expenditure .  This stuff tends to hurt most peoples brains BUT the d...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

My summary of the impending "Federal Budget Sequestration" in 9 sentences plus a "Have a good day!"!

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The "Good News"---T he actual amount that agencies need to cut THIS budget year amounts to approx $45Billion, about half the $85Bi...
Friday, December 28, 2012

If you spill milk after January 1st you will want to cry because it might cost as much as $8.00 a gallon. Congress does it to us AGAIN! This is a strange story you have to read to believe.

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Caught up in the morass in Congress (House AND Senate) is the fate of the latest Farm Bill.  If it is not renewed on or before January 1st...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Interesting graphic showing how someone earning $69,000 or $29,000 ends up with the same income (cash and non-cash) after taxes/benefits/subsidies are factored in/out. Enlightening regardless of your politics.

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This chart has been bouncing around various blogs. I tried to find something to counter the points made here but could not find anything sub...
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

A Tax To Die For...Here I briefly explain another "Fiscal Cliff" tax issue: The Estate ("Death") Tax...

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One of the least talked about aspects of the "fiscal cliff" is the Estate Tax, sometimes referred to as the "Death Tax"....
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Federal Budget spending in stacks of $10,000 bills sitting on pallets. See the three towers of political gridlock right here. Here's your sign...

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The 3 pillars of the Federal Budget illustrated here--Social Security, Health Care (primarily Medicare and Medicaid) and National Defense. T...
Saturday, August 4, 2012

Cartoon " Desert Island Recession"---See if you agree with the premise and conclusion...

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The genesis of a recession.  I have a problem beginning with the frame "The Next Day".  How about you? From  Gocomics   Via Mik...
Friday, August 3, 2012

I think the President SHOULD have said "The Federal employment sector is doing just fine". Here is the proof in one easy graph...

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Planet Money at NPR has been following the change in government jobs at the Federal, State and Local level since the beginning of the reces...

Entitlement Spending and Public Investment in 3 easy graphs. Hey, this is not a flashy subject but none more important...

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The following sets of graphs illustrate the "Emperor has no clothes" in terms of the Federal Budget. Everyone knows the problem bu...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Was Romney right in saying we need fewer Fire Fighters? See the graphs/data here before yelling at me...

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Here are a couple of graphs showing some interesting information regarding firemen (and women). The first one shows the decrease in the nu...
Friday, July 6, 2012

UN calls for a billionaires tax to help the world's poor. Thought I would re-write the headline so it actually solves the problem...

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Saw this headline on Yahoo!News:  UN calls for 'billionaires tax' to help world's poor . I thought this is what the headline ...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Nice population pyramid charts to remind us of the ticking fiscal timebomb awaiting the next generation. THIS is what the OWC's SHOULD be protesting...Go South protesters-- towards Capitol Hill...

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Click on the video below to see the age-demographic change occurring in the US.  This is ground zero for a potential busted national budget ...
Monday, September 5, 2011

The problem with Social Security in one easy chart---too few "youngs" working for too many "olds"....

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With all the political talk surrounding much needed reform of entitlement programs, mainly Social and Medicare, the graph below illustrates ...
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