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Private insurance is very good at effectively pricing risk. Bad drivers should pay more for car insurance, and homes should be priced out of being built in areas with pre-existing

The UK provides an instructive example of the administrative challenges of distributing means-tested tax credit benefits on a monthly basis. In 2003 they implemented a big Child Tax Credit and

Dec 15th is the deadline to enroll in ACA plans (later in many states)If you make between 100-200% of the federal poverty line, you're probably best off with a Silver

Some tax-and-spend victories this cycle: Measure W in Alameda county- sales tax to fund homelessness services Prop A in Austin - a property tax increase to fund public rail transit

My theory for how to get voters to support taxes is simple: go small and tie them to tangible popular policies (and then repeat).https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1324140507769888768 Where tax propositions failed, they were

Honestly the Tax Positivity stuff started out as a troll, but like all good troll positions I’ve come to see it as the correct position over time. The number of

Here’s a thread on ideological divisions within the Swedish Social Democrats in 1930s and the ideological basis of the Swedish welfare state. Screenshots taken from Just Institutions Matter (Rothstein, 1998)

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