Is $250,000 a year in household income “middle class”? That sort of income puts a family in the top 5 percent of American earners, which seems like an overgenerous definition of “middle class.” Why, then, are Democrats so allergic to raising taxes on people who make less than this fabled cutoff? Hillary Clinton and Bernie […]
Medicare is accumulating an unfunded obligation of between $28 trillion and $37 trillion. This is the dollar amount of promises to Medicare beneficiaries that are not financed with dedicated revenues. Although comprehensive Medicare reform is in order, one small step to alleviate this burden would be a further reduction in taxpayer subsidies to Medicare’s wealthy […]
Donald Trump thinks big. He got his start when his father lent him “a small amount of money … around $1 million,” which he used to begin developing properties in Manhattan. Now he wants to be president, and Threshold Books has published his policy platform, “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again.” It’s hard […]
That Bernie Sanders would like to have Scandinavian style socialism for the United States doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I might refer to the system those countries have as social democracy, not socialism, but that’s just me being accurate in my use of language, not something that operates as a refutation of the basic […]
Jeb Bush‘s Medicare reform contains two proposals — premium support and Health Savings Accounts — that will have a significant, positive effect on seniors’ access to care and Medicare’s finances. In particular, the proposals will address four flaws in Medicare Advantage, an alternative to traditional Medicare in which seniors choose a plan from a private […]