The marginal and effective U.S. income tax rates mentioned in my 2011 post The 90 Percent Tax Myth have been supported by research conducted by Thomas Piketty…
Posts published in “Politics”
Democracy in Chains by Historian Nancy MacLean was worthy of a few online posts earlier this summer, when I first read a loaned copy and was…
Researchers at the University of Washington, asked by Seattle to study the increase in the city’s minimum wage, have some difficult news for the city…
The United States’ federal budget spends a lot of money: between $3.5 and $4.0 trillion annually. How much do citizens of the United States earn…
If socialists and statists wanted to damage limited government and republicanism they could not have chosen better men as Manchurians than Donald Trump and Sam…
Minimum wage debates tend to overstate the estimated and real effects of any changes to the minimum wage in the United States. Most studies show…
President Trump’s potential unilateral withdrawal from the Paris Accord on Climate should remind all politically engaged Americans that there is a risk when presidents ignore…
One of the more popular (or infamous) posts here on Almost Classical is “The 90% Tax Rate Myth.” It explores the differences between marginal and…
By the end of 2017, I’ll care much less about all things political. I’m already finding the constant calls to “do something” exhausting. Sorry, but…
Supporters of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seem to be stuck in reality distortion bubbles. This is slightly more pronounced on the Trump side, where…