Tag: Welfare
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A Common Misunderstanding of Warren's Head Tax Proposal
Warren's head tax has all the same problems of the payroll tax, but worse.
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Warren's Medicare Head Tax Would Be About $9,500
It is about $9,500 depending on precisely how you want to add it up.
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What Is a Middle Class Tax Hike? Am I Losing My Mind?
Warren's Medicare plan clearly raises taxes on the middle class.
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Warren's Perpetual Medicare Head Tax Is Unworkable and Bad
The Warren plan is clearly worse than an employer-side payroll tax.
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How to Approach Medicare for All Financing
It is really not that difficult if you put a little effort into it.
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New Poll Finds Voters Strongly Oppose Employer Insurance
Only 11 percent of voters think employers should be able to change their insurance.
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The Urban Institute Report Did Not Score Medicare for All
The single payer plan in the Urban Institute study is different from M4A.
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Evaluating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Poverty Plan
Fine as far as things go but not likely to reduce poverty by much.
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The US Welfare State Cut Poverty by Two-Thirds in 2018
Poverty is easy to fix. Just keep building the welfare state.
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Sanders Is Right: 50 Million Lose Their Insurance Each Year
The claim is both true literally and even non-literally in the spirit of things.
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Medicare for All Would Cut Poverty by Over 20 Percent
Poor families spend 22 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical expenses.
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Situating Basic Income and Job Guarantee in the Welfare State
These are mostly unemployment benefit schemes, but not very good ones.
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The Heartland Institute Put Out a Very Stupid M4A Analysis
Justin Haskins's analysis overstates the net cost of M4A by 200 percent.
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Health Insurance Churn in the US Is a Nightmare
People lose their health insurance constantly with little choice over the matter.
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Don’t Blame the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend
The state can easily close solve its budget woes with ordinary taxes.
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Bidencare System Will Kill 125,000 Through Uninsurance
The body count of 3 percent uninsurance is staggering. Insurance must be universal.
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50 Million Adults Are Uninsured Every Single Year
About 1 in 4 adults churn out of insurance at some point every year.
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Low Income People Have More Student Debt Than Realized
The data everyone is using is simply not good data for these purposes.
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The Student Debt Forgiveness Muddle Continues
The precise purpose of forgiveness remains weirdly elusive.
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The LIFT+ Credit Cuts Poverty by 45 Percent
The LIFT+ credit is 2.5x as effective as Harris's LIFT credit.