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Making stock returns the basis for the corporate income tax is a game where everyone but the tax cheats win.
Making stock returns the basis for the corporate income tax is a game where everyone but the tax cheats win.
Spending money on greening the economy is a great way to keep people employed.
Spending money on greening the economy is a great way to keep people employed.
The book is indeed useful in documenting the failures of the pharmaceutical industry, but it comes up painfully short in the remedies.
The book is indeed useful in documenting the failures of the pharmaceutical industry, but it comes up painfully short in the remedies.
Instead of wasting resources in military competition, and bottling up technologies in trying to gain economic advantage, we can look to have a path where we try to maximize cooperation between the superpowers.
Instead of wasting resources in military competition, and bottling up technologies in trying to gain economic advantage, we can look to have a path where we try to maximize cooperation between the superpowers.
The Biden administration could find ways around the legal weapons that Moderna and Pfizer might use to block the transfer of the technology they use to produce mRNA vaccines.
The Biden administration could find ways around the legal weapons that Moderna and Pfizer might use to block the transfer of the technology they use to produce mRNA vaccines.
The question is whether there are better ways to get these drugs and vaccines. There is good reason for thinking there is.
The question is whether there are better ways to get these drugs and vaccines. There is good reason for thinking there is.
Even if buybacks are not the great evil that some have claimed, there is no reason for the government to be encouraging them with its tax policy.
Even if buybacks are not the great evil that some have claimed, there is no reason for the government to be encouraging them with its tax policy.
But socialism is really not the villain. . .it’s actually regulations that restrict supply and raise costs.
But socialism is really not the villain. . .it’s actually regulations that restrict supply and raise costs.
The European welfare states all mandate far more paid time off than the United States.
The European welfare states all mandate far more paid time off than the United States.
Arguably, the full cost of the $3.5 trillion (1.2 percent of GDP) reconciliation package could be covered by savings on prescription drugs alone.
Arguably, the full cost of the $3.5 trillion (1.2 percent of GDP) reconciliation package could be covered by savings on prescription drugs alone.

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