May 3, 2019
In a new report, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) presents a menu of choices that we will need to consider if we want single payer healthcare.
April 15, 2019
On this tax day, let's look at six handy tax facts that range from how to un-pay a tax, to the best tax act, to how U.S. taxes compare with Europe's.
March 29, 2019
Looking at the Philadelphia sugary drinks tax, we would find it did not accomplish many of its goals in three major categories.
March 15, 2019
With the Congress having received President Trump's 2020 federal budget proposal, a process with a rarely met October 1 deadline has begun.
March 11, 2019
Avoided by Norway, Dutch disease is contracted by nations that let a commodity windfall dominate what they produce and spend.
February 13, 2019
February 11, 2019
The preliminary results for Finland's two-year guaranteed income experiment appears to have created more questions than it answered.
February 5, 2019
Whether deciding how to divide boats in Santa Barbara harbor, a cake, or tax revenue, fair distribution requires knowing what different people say is fair.
January 8, 2019
The controversial side of school funding can take us to a "Friends" excerpt about splitting the dinner check and to a small Vermont community.
December 30, 2018
A look at the NASA shutdown reveals the massive human cost and the programs that are affected when an agency is suddenly unfunded.
December 12, 2018
December 4, 2018
To see why another partial government shutdown is a possibility, we can look at the Congress's continuing resolutions (CRs).