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Excellent point. If the line of thinking of the author were around in the 1940's and 1950's (gov't just find ways to keep people self employed tax calculator), we'd still have guys delivering big blocks of ice to our homes or milkmen delivering unrefridgerated milk for us to use before it goes bad. The problem with the stimulus was largely that there were no shovel-ready projects and the states just plugged the holes in their budgets for 2 years More

Actually William, that is not all that true. I know more than a couple of Chinese PhDs that returned to do research. Few remain in the university system as they are quickly snacthed up by private firms with R&D facilities. Not just many foreign firms but Chinese firms as well give them carte balance to do research as they see fit. The firms only care about the bottom line and as long as the PhD produces, that is fine. In many instances they have More

The most important question in the long run is not where the investment / spending decision making skills came from, but rather what was it invested / spent on. Regardless of deficit or not, it is still a matter of efficient capital allocation. The important question is more on the investing side than on the financing side. And as far as I understand the private market has been much more successful in making efficient capital allocations (when really More

It's patently obvious that high-tech will remain a growth industry. But we're raising generations of children that are poor at math, science, and logical reasoning. We're creating tech-savvy, but science-illiterate people who lack the job organizational skills to fill these industries. I've encouraged my sons to work hard at developing those skills, even if they feel the're not good at them or that they don't enjoy them. But we also need teachers More

Obama move to the center? What Bull Stuff! Obama has never known where the center of anything is because he believes that the Earth and the Universe revolve about Obama. Narcissistic Personality Disorder now has a name and a face that is Obama. Let Obama make the first shared sacrifice and turn over all of his assets, including his Tony Rezko financed house, to the government. Let him retire in the manner of Harry Truman to a simple house and lifestyle. More

Oregon has no sales quotes tax and is especially vulnerable to bad economic conditions. I don't think there is much success in getting reductions in assessed value of a home though median home prices have declined somewhat as this would decimate property taxes. Income taxes are down for obvious reasons. Lack of a sales tax prohibits collecting any state income from the underground economy, yet Oregonians are very stubborn about instituting a More

In the fall of 2008, I delayed getting a flu shot shot business, simply out of laziness. I ended up getting the shot on December 1. Unfortunately, I had already been exposed to the flu from one of my students (I was a special-education aide at the time). I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia for 10 days. I never had asthma or breathing problems before, but I have been suffering from them ever since the bout with flu/pneumonia. I have been seeing More

This is a very enlightening article and I admire the Webers for being so forthcoming in print about an issue that impacts many couples. I'm definitely an extravert, but I often behave like an introvert personality. We extraverts run til we drop and then need to recharge, just like introverts. I need alone time, too. I often get to a social event and want to leave after an hour. I love the interaction but enough already! I do agree that it's easier More

Actually Obama and McConnell didn't serve together in the Senate for four years. Obama spent two years campaigning for President. It took Obama 18 months to have a one on one with the Minority Leader. A phone call from Obama to ask McConnell for a meeting would have been easy to attain. Obama was too busy meeting with Andy Stern and Soros to squeeze McConnell in between the important people. When Obama announced he would have a meeting with the More

Mr. Beckley, you are very correct in pointing out that governments will collect more tax revenue by eliminating corporate team building activities taxes. Corporations pay their employees much more in salaries and wages than their corporate taxable income. With no corporate income taxes, there is no doubt that more corporations would move to (or expand in) the U.S. thus generating much more in salaries and wages and thus more personal income taxes More