Unemployed People Need More Stress

Another piece on Medium. Are unemployment insurance payments too high? Many business owners seem to think so. By coincidence, Republicans agree with them. They believe the federal unemployment supplement is too generous and discourages workers from returning to their poorly paid, unsafe, sub-minimum wage jobs. Read more

Tax the Rich, Just Don’t Tell Them

How much should the wealthy pay in taxes? Should the top marginal tax rate be thirty-one percent or thirty-seven percent or perhaps a nice, round seventy? Should capital gains be taxed at the same rate as income? Democrats (and most Americans) think the wealthy should pay more. The wealthy do not agree. By coincidence, neither […]