A new study by Brian Wheaton, a professor at UCLA who examined what happened after those nations adopted flat tax systems after the breakup of the Soviet Empire. Here’s a map from the study, showing the nations that adopted the flat tax. What were the economic results? Here are some exc...
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Berkeley CS professor Stuart Russell warn Congress that AI could cause serious harms in a few years More: GovInfoSecurity.com, Yoshua Bengio, TechCrunch, and CNBC Television on YouTube Twitter: @robertwiblin, @g_lajoie_, and @anthropic...
…In America, over 25 percent of respondents said the person with the ..immigrant-sounding name would pay less in taxes than he collected in welfare… The study’s findings pose a particular dilemma for Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.), who wants to combine grandiose welfare ...
Story #2 takes place in the late 1940s, in a cafeteria at Cornell. A young physics professor notices a student tossing a dinner plate into the air. The plate is wobbling, and the red insignia of Cornell is going around, and, just for fun, the professor decides to try to figure out ...
…Elizabeth Warren and her multiple plans—heavily dependent on criminal prosecutions and intense oversight—is flirting with a milder version of this future. Henninger is certainly correct that nations mostly get in trouble because of their own mistakes. For instance, I’ve pointed out that the ...
P.P.S. While 2022 was a mixed bag, history buffs may be interested in knowing that it was the 100th anniversary ofa big tax rate reduction(top rate lowered from 73 percent to 58 percent) implemented in 1922 during theunder-appreciated presidency of Warren Harding. ...
Professor Patrick Minford of Cardiff University, who argues that Brexit will raise the UK’s welfare by 4% as a result of increased trade… Minford’s policy recommendation is that following a vote for Brexit, the UK should not bother striking new trade deals but instead unilaterally abolish ...
In other words,the problem is obviousandthe solution is obvious. But there are too manyBarack ObamasandElizabeth Warrensin Washington, so it’s more likely that policy will move in the wrong direction. Share this:
As are space rockets. The great space‐rocket pioneer was Robert “Moonie” Goddard (1882–1945), a professor at Clark College in Massachusetts. Funded with $100,000 from the Guggenheims and $10,000 from the Hodgkins Fund, the projects that resulted in his achievements were extraordinary:...
This was a stunning display of hypocrisy, perhaps even to the extent thatJoe BidenorElizabeth Warrenmight be shocked. But I want to focus on a different point, which is the degree to which the coronavirus has exposed the fault line between those who are subsidized by government and those who...