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http://peoplespolicyproject.org 01-07-2011 11:57:02
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Zaid Jilani To be clear, it's whatever. I suspect the children of two YLS grads will be fine and it truly doesn't matter, but you know, that just speaks to the way in which class itself rather than this or that broken-family pathology Vance likes to point to predominates.
it's really a Matt Bruenig policy election now: theintercept.com/2018/08/28/soc… x.com/josephzeballos…
AndrewInAustralia Cameron Murray We shouldn’t do this (income-splitting) but we do. A better system is to assess tax on the individual and use universal welfare benefits, such as a caregiver allowance, for the zero earner.
AndrewInAustralia Cameron Murray If you do it like this, with each individual receiving either a wage or a welfare benefit, you don't need to mess around with the tax system (as with income-splitting, deductions, credits) in order to achieve distributions that are sensitive to family composition.
Megan McArdle Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 So the idea here is that as the Dutch housing stock went from 75% of units being rent controlled to 96% of them being rent controlled, some portion of the population saw their housing costs go down so much they bought second homes creating a housing crisis. I bet that's not true.