Six Tax “Reform”-Related Appeals to Various People to Do Their Jobs for Their Country’s Sake—and Even, in the Long Run, Their Selves’ Sake
- An Appeal to the Republican-Supporting Plutocrats of America: Short version: Would somebody please remind the plutocrats that they are not the kleptocrats’ natural allies; they are the kleptocrats’ natural prey?…
- An Appeal to the Republican-Leaning Entrepreneurial, Enterprising, and Lucky White Christian Upper Middle Class of America: Policies that are good for you are no longer policies that the politicians you support will advocate…
- An Appeal to the Kansas Congressional Delegation: Jerry Moran, Pat Roberts, Roger Marshall, Lynn Jenkins, Kevin Yoder, and Ron Estes: “You have seen [this] already…. You owe it to your fellow Republicans to warn them of what you know will be the likely consequences of what they are doing…
- An appeal to Republican economists should do their job, and not be deer in the headlights
- An appeal to Republicans to regain contact with Blue America
- An appeal to economists to recognize that political pressure makes “dynamic” estimates lose the bias-variance tradeoff via “static” estimates: Hoisted from the Archives: Night Thoughts on Dynamic Scoring