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Not only is it a tiny number (less than one percent), but there's no in-depth analysis in the article to show why those people paid no income taxes. My neighbor, a guy who owns his own business, suffered through serious losses in 2008-2010. He financed those business losses out of his own...

In the short run, this isn't about tax rates. The EU taxocrats will agree to any tax rate that casts the FTT net as broadly as possible. Their strategy has two steps: step1 -- short term strategy: implement a broad FTT with very low rates to bring in as many countries as possible; step 2...

List of "notable" employee-owned companies in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies

The repeal of Glass-Steagall (Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act -- banking deregulation) was approved in the Senate 90–8 and in the House 362–57 with majority support from both parties. It was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12th, 1999. Clinton never expresssed any...

Spread the word -- The Financial Transactions Tax is a bad idea and we can show you why it's a bad idea. Contact your congressional representatives, brokers, fellow traders, news/tv/media, social networking sites, etc. Below is a sample email you can use to direct people to the new...

Spread the word -- The Financial Transactions Tax is a bad idea and we can show you why it's a bad idea. Contact your congressional representatives, brokers, fellow traders, news/tv/media, social networking websites, etc. Below is a sample email you can use to direct people to the new...

It's very relevant. It wasn't the direct cause of the crash, but it provided the fuel -- a massive increase in mortage debt.

In September of 1999 the New York Times ran an article predicting the collapse of the banking system 7 years before it happened: Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk...

No way! My kids are taller, too. Coincidence? I don't think so.

http://news.yahoo.com/anti-government-hate-groups-growing-report-022055690.html According to this article, about 200,000-300,000 people belong to various "hate groups" in the US. Let's call it 300k. (There are about 800,000 gang members in the US, just to put it in perspective...

As a 20+ year California resident, I sincerely hope that we do not get bailed out. Besides, why would Obama give money to California? He'll win here in a landslide no matter what he does. If California was a swing state, that would be a different story.

Whether or not they can get nine votes depends on wild-card countries like Finland. On the one hand Finland claims to support the FTT, but then their President said it would hurt them unless Sweden was part of the FTT pact. What Finland will do is anybody's guess. And then there's the...

You're right. I misused the data. I did not provide a statistically significant model of causality. I stand corrected. Now perhaps AK-47 could provide some statistical analysis for us rather than just posting correlation/coincidence.

By that same logic we could conclude that killing turkeys causes winter. The statistics are just as compelling. Chart the number of turkeys killed by month on one axis, and average temperatures in the northern hemisphere on the other axis. Anyone who doesn't know the difference between...

If governments could produce a "net positive jobs impact" through legislation, we would always be at full employment. Unless net new wealth is created, one person's gain is another's loss. For example, smog tests in California create jobs in one industry and take away from another. If I have...

No. I live in a densely populated area of Southern California.

We have two families with home-schooled kids in our neighbohood. The home-schooled kids participate in little league, the local club soccer league, park tennis tournaments, boy scouts, girl scouts, compete in science fairs, and I see them out playing and riding their bikes with other kids in the...

The theory presupposes that if taxes were higher the government would do something with those funds that would improve the lives of the middle class. There's very little to indicate that would happen. California is a great example. In the 1960s, total per-capita California state taxes as a...

Yes, and democrat Gavin Newsom is now a right-wing extremist because he says that regulatory costs in California are too high. The study you cite only looked at OSHA which is a small fraction of the total regulatory costs. Regulations regarding planning, transit and energy are driving...

It's a common left-wing tactic of blaming the messenger if a story violates what they believe. But even democrats like former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson admitted that the cost of regulation in California was too high and causing companies to leave the state. OSHA is a small cost...