Newt Gingrich’s bold plan to save the Republican Party by overhauling the Census Bureau

I’m a little late to this (it came out on Tuesday), but I just read Newt Gingrich’s “Plea to Republicans: It’s Time for Real Change to Avoid Real Disaster.” It starts with a cogent analysis of just how bad things look for Republicans in this fall’s Congressional elections. “The Republican brand has been so badly [...]

Six things I’m sure of about capital gains taxes

A certain Flip has declared that my post from last week about the Congressional Budget Office and capital gains taxes contained the “Worst Argument of the Day.” I’m totally honored, except that I didn’t actually make the argument for which he condemns me, which was that the decline in tax revenue from 2000 to 2004 [...]