Much to my surprise, during our time on a panel together in Madison last Thursday, I found him to be less of an ideologue than I expected. I will continue to disagree with him on a "premimum support" system to replace Medicare, and I don't think his budget adds up (he never says how he gets [...]
State Taxes and GDP 2 Jared Bernstein recently posted a scatter plot of Federal Marginal Tax Rates and GDP growth, and found no correlation between the two. The graph above depicts the top potential marginal effective tax rate by state as calculated by the Tax Foundation (I will explain their calculation below) against GDP per [...]