Fix the Estate Tax
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 16th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Fix the Estate Tax
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Washington Post
Right now, Congress is debating the best way to address tax relief for American families – a critical question as our country continues to recover from the recession. House Democrats are committed to getting the best possible deal for taxpayers and ensuring that taxes on working families don't go up on Jan. 1. But we also don't think it's fiscally responsible or fair to provide a tax-cut bonanza to super-rich estates.
The Municipal Debt Bubble
Veronique de Rugy, Reason
When state and local governments want to spend more than they collect in revenues, they issue bonds. Such bonds are a longstanding feature of the American landscape, going back at least as far as 1812, but during the last decade they have spun out of control, as states and cities have increased their borrowing to indulge in more and more spending on new stadiums, schools, bridges, and museums. They have even started borrowing to cover their basic operational expenses.
What Did Einstein Believe About God?
Michael Shermer, Big Questions
Albert Einstein famously opined, "God is cunning but He is not malicious." And: "God does not play dice." When asked his motivation for doing physics, Einstein replied: "I want to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." In the final weeks of his life, when Einstein learned of the death of his old physicist friend Michele Besso, he wrote the Besso family: "He has departed from this strange…
