We are mere weeks away from the midterm elections, and the current debate clearly revolves around that all-American topic: the role of government in our lives. Whether the discussion is framed around health care, taxes, defense, the environment, the economy, or the Department of Education, the question, as I am increasingly seeing it, is not so much how much these … Read More
The Enigma Variations on Extending the Bush Tax Cuts
I am a beneficiary of the Bush tax cuts, as are, probably, most of you. When the cuts were first enacted in 2001, we might have seen our federal taxes drop by hundreds of dollars, or maybe even by a thousand or two. All absolutely welcome tax relief, but was it really? As a response to those tax cuts, and … Read More