Author: JLG

Is the GOP Creating a 90% Tax Bracket?

Between 1951 and 1963, individuals in the top federal tax bracket were subject to a marginal tax rate of over 90%. While there is no chance that those in the top income bracket will suffer any such indignities in 2017, there is...

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How Wisconsin Was Lost

Last year, the Republicans in Wisconsin passed the most sweeping and controversial legislation in many a decade, the bill that ended collective bargaining for most state employees.  The reverberations of the legislation go...

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Only the dead know Paul Goodman

There is an anniversary today, and I thought somebody should write something about it.  One hundred years ago, Paul Goodman was born.  During his 60 years, Goodman was known as a sociologist, therapist, educational...

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On the sudden irrelevance of the environment

I wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon or so blatantly, but I wasn’t really that surprised when the Administration pulled the plug on EPA ozone regulations.   Why did this happen. and what does it all mean?I...

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