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The theory behind the "Cadillac tax" on health plans is little more than wishful thinking based on dubious research. Advocates believe that forcing employers to cut benefits will lead to cheaper, better care. That's like preventing rain by outlawing umbrellas. Yet the...

The beat goes on: David Leonhardt, the Times economics blogger and tax supporter, had this exchange regarding the Senate's health excise tax on NPR's "Marketplace" program: Leonhardt: (It's) a tax on the costliest health-insurance plan. It's an idea health economists...

Blogger and video producer Lee Stranahan has produced a video that includes footage of Barack Obama denouncing the so-called 'Cadillac tax' during last year's Presidential campaign. Stranahan, who is an uninsured husband and father, accompanies his video with a...

Amid indications from President Obama that he wants the House to adopt the Senate's health tax, we learn that he will meet with labor to discuss their concerns about the tax's effect on middle-class American workers. Sam Stein reports in The Huffington Post that the...

I have a simple question: Why is moving a factory across a border called "trade"? The process of building up a country is long and difficult. People over time unite and engage in a long, hard struggle to form a democratic government for themselves and build strong...

By nearly every measure, average Americans lost ground in the “Aughts.” They’ve been losing ground — to the rich — for three full decades now. Will the 'Teens' make that four? Pawn shops always do well in recessions. CEOs of pawn shops, at least these days, do even...

As someone who just published a novel and is looking to market it, I found this idea especially interesting. Deborah Emin of Sullivan Street Press called it to my attention. Now I share it as I can. Deborah calls the idea an “Itinerant Book Show.” The basic idea is...

i The fury and dialogue catalyzed by Joe Lieberman's unsurprising treachery on health care reform — along with futile efforts to court Olympia Snowe, and the dealmaking with Ben Nelson and other "Blue Dog" Democrats — underscores a Democratic division and...