With all the talk here and on Swampland over the past couple of days about John McCain’s health-care plan, it’s worth remembering that there’s already a bipartisan bill in Congress that would do pretty much what McCain says he wants to do as far as taking health insurance out of the hands of employers, yet [...]
For those of you who don’t stop by Swampland first on the way to this blog, here’s McCain’s adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin splainin’ something about his boss’s health insurance plan: For the typical ESI [employer-sponsored insurance] recipient — $12,000 policy — nothing changes. The tax liability on the policy ($12,000 x .35) when insurance is taxed [...]
A reader whose office happens to be a couple of doors down from mine writes, with regard to caitlilly’s plaint about life in rural Wyoming in a time of a high gas prices: Is “tough s***” an acceptable answer? OK, maybe I wouldn’t put it that harshly, although having spent half my life in the [...]
Mark Dotzour, chief economist at Texas A&M’s Real Estate Center stopped by yesterday to chat. Lots of parts of Texas are doing just dandy, he reported, thanks to the booming energy and technology industries, trade with Mexico, internal population growth and people moving to Texas from other parts of the country. House prices last year [...]
Commenter caitlilly asks a couple of good questions: I live in Wyoming – and live, as most people do in Wyoming – a lifestyle that truly benefits from SUV’s and trucks. Come to any rural area like this and the streets are dominated by gas guzzlers. But here it’s not a status symbol – it’s [...]
