Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen
New Je
rsey taxes could eat up all of Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl earnings…
Krugman wrong again: there is no relationship between inequality and mortality.
Massachusetts is now home to the country’s worst performing exchange.
Peter Orszag: 63% of comparative effectiveness research money is going to things other than research. (Administrative costs?)
Prof. Mankiw’s article looks interesting. Statistically speaking, we cannot draw a conclusion that higher inequality causes higher mortality even though the parameters are significant. Correlation does not necessarily mean causality. Data may mislead people due to the deficiency of statistical modeling.
Exactly, Mr. Zou
“The Massachusetts exchange has failed in spectacular fashion and lags far behind the federal site in terms of progress toward fixing the problem.”
Wow. That must be bad.
“Exchange Website Has Not Successfully Enrolled A Single Person: Enrollment By Paper And Excel”
We’re reverting to pen-and-paper and excel? So much for “Forward.”
If Mass. abandons ship at the state level, can the nation abandon ship on ObamaCare?
“In addition, the Connector has been forced to extend a $1.1 million contract with a third-party administrator because the exchange website can’t handle the composite billing the ACA requires.” – As if this plan weren’t costing enough already.
“Massachusetts is now home to the country’s worst performing exchange.”
That’s pretty bad considering Mass is the poster child for health insurance reform.
Rising inequity doesn’t cause stagnant wages. Inequity and stagnant wages are caused by the same phenomenon — global competition. It’s true the poor generally have worse health than wealthier individuals. But, much of the difference is lifestyle, and possibly some genetics. Inequity itself doesn’t lead to higher mortality.
“New Jersey taxes could eat up all of Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl earnings…”
This sort of reminds me of the Olympics when people were suddenly outraged that gold medalists were going to be taxed on their winnings. It’s great to see some focus on these issues, with people across the spectrum thinking that the tax in that situation seemed unfair, but it sure would be nice if folks would extend that outrage to the income tax in general, not just to these specific situations. It’s a tax on a person’s success, plain and simple.
Why even win?
Or try, at that rate.
I wish Paul Krugman would just pack up his things and go home.
God yes.
But then who would stick around to get things wrong?
he will pay New Jersey $46,844 on his $46,000, which amounts to a 101.83% tax on his actual Super Bowl earnings in the state—and this does not even consider federal taxes!
Poor Peyton. Thats just a drop in the bucket for what he would make
yeah, just think of the players who only make the league minimum. That tax hurts them way more
PCORI, the comparative-effectiveness research body, is doing what any freshly baked, government backed, agency will do: Invest its windfall in public-relations and feather-bedding to ensure its continued existence.
To actually fund comparative-effectiveness research would entail taking risks: Poking various bears and dragons, which would rise up to cut off government funding.
PCORI’s behavior is quite understandable.