- Don’t Make Us Work Until We Die | Hullabaloo – digby
- Between raising the retirement age, skimping on the benefits, wage stagnation and economic wipe-outs like the Great Recession, young and old alike will be competing for all those low paying jobs. …
Click here to find out about the rallies all over the country on April 27th and 28th. If there isn't one near you, join the Virtual Rally by taking a picture of yourself with your sign saying "Don't Make Us Work Until We Die" and email it to: virtualrally@socialsecurity-works.org with your City
- Your lessons for the day | Hullabaloo – digby
- Here are two very important pieces of relevant information that are not well understood even by many liberals. The first is about the stale trope that the ratio of workers to retirees was once much much higher and has shrunk to an unforeseen, unsustainable level. The second is about the idea that patients are "consumers" who need to be making "smarter choices."
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- What Are Taxes For? – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- Brad DeLong and Noah Smith have some fun with a bizarre post by Steve Landsburg…in which [he] asserts that you can’t tax a man if you can’t persuade him to reduce his consumption.
There are multiple things wrong with this claim, but the most fundamental, I think, is that it represents a remarkable misunderstanding of the reasons why we have taxes in the first place. They don’t primarily exist as a way to induce lower private consumption, although they may sometimes have that effect
- Gag Orders | Marginal Revolution • by Alex Tabarrok
- How can the abuse of government power be checked when it’s a crime to even talk about the abuse? Important and outrageous story from The Washington Post…
[That this kind of thing happens should not be a surprise at all, of course, but it's a good reminder of how far we've drifted from the rule of law, the First Amendment, and other necessary bulwarks against tyranny. -L]
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