If The Holocaust Had Taken Place Here
I’m Jewish. (My grandparents were named Avrum Shevak, Fanny Glembotski, Joe Jacobs and Golde Mintz, so I’m pretty sure.) Lately, a scenario has been running through my mind. It goes like this: Suppose the Holocaust had taken place in the United States. Suppose the remains of concentration camps still stood in many places. Suppose once […]
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 […]