Medicare Pay

Just Eliminate the Income Tax. Instead, Tax Wealth

This was written as a response to the tax "plans" that stupidly - or deliberately - conflate Social Security and the deficit. But now, it strikes me as the perfect "compromise" between the rethuglicans demanding tax cuts for the obscenely rich and liberals refusing to let the working and middle clas. ...more...

The Deal on The Deal

Here's a scary number. The number of people on food stamps increased to 42,900,000 people in 2010 from 17,300,000 people in 2001. This in the richest society the world has ever known. It is a sad, sad commentary. (If all my mumbo jumbo, arm chair blabberings about economics that follows doesn't inte. ...more...

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Jennifer Miller B00174394 The right to choose, Public Health care in Canada and the Private Health care option. Sociology 3009 Dr. Butler Public health care and the privatized health care alternative's have been the subject of debate for Canadians for some time. Canadians take a lot of comfort in kn. ...more...
Health Care is putting the US out of business (12/10/10)

Best in the World? What would you say about a product that receives giant public subsidies, costs twice as much or more as its main competition, and ranks 49 th in quality worldwide? Most businessmen would say you should be out of business. American leaders declare that product the best in the world. ...more...

Is Software Outsourcing The Answer To Your Software Problems?

"The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it." ~~ Alphonso Jackson -- Secretary of United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Is Software Outsourcing the Answer to Your Software Problems? F. ...more...

The Sixteenth Amendment
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. The Sixteenth Amendment allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states. ...more...
A New Nursing Home Population: The Young (Thank god for Advocates)
Michelle Fridley, 33, with her cat in her apartment in Canadaigua, N.Y. Ten years ago, on the way to her baby shower, Fridley, then 23, was in a car accident that left her a quadriplegic. This year, she was crowned Miss Wheelchair New York. There's one age group that's going into nursing homes at a . ...more...