Here’s Jill Lawrence at Politics Daily : After talking to five economists, I can give you the bottom line: Spending the money differently probably wouldn’t have changed our circumstances much. But the economists took diverse paths to that conclusion, and they have varying opinions about where to go from here…
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It’s Not the Size of the Stimulus.
* Late reviews of Carly Fiorina/Barbara Boxer debate: Sac Bee ’s Dan Walters says Boxer won . OC Register ’s Brian Joseph calls the whole debate a ” dud ” and a “letdown,” while 58 percent of Register readers give the win to Carly in a web poll.
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California Roundup: Who Won? Who Pays? Who’s Stoned? And More
* Another day, another multi-billion-dollar explosion in government employee pension costs. The University of California system is on the hook for $20 billion thanks to a 20-year-old decision to stop paying into the retirement system (in the belief that it was overfunded). Aside from demonstrating the limits of college-level math skills, this screwup adds more complexity to California’s public sector pension crisis, as UC system employees are outside the purview of the governor and thus are not part of the big pension rollback Gov.
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California Roundup: Professors Can’t Do Math
Jane Mayer, 2010 : Of course, Democrats give money, too.
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I Guess it Depends on the Meaning of the Word “Soros”
A new report on the U.S. tax code by a Paul Volcker-led presidential advisory board starts with a single, careful line: “America’s tax system is complex.” Well, yes. Another way to put it might be that America’s tax system is a bloated, ugly, resource-hogging mess that wastes huge amounts of time and money every single year.
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Tired of Filing Out Tax Forms? What If the IRS Did Your Taxes For You?
Is the U.S. on a certain path toward a debt crisis? And if so, at what point will it strike
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For Certain Is Debt for the Born
E-Meg vs. Gov.
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His Aura Smiles And Never Frowns: Tim Cavanaugh Talks Cal. Gov. Race On Fox Biz
The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” grant competition
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You’ll Find Out When You The Reach The Top of Race to the Top, You’ll Realize You’re on The Bottom.
In a letter to The New York Times , drug czar Gil Kerlikowske claims that “since 2007, cocaine use has decreased sharply in the United States, while in Europe it has risen.” But the National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows past-year cocaine use declining only slightly between 2007 and 2008 (the most recent year for which data are available), from 2.3 percent to 2.1 percent. Similarly, past-month cocaine use fell from 0.8 percent to 0.7 percent
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Do Cocaine Trends Show U.S. Policies Are Better Than Europe’s?
The Swedish authorities announce that WikiLeaks’ founder is wanted for rape, and then just as swiftly they withdraw the charge . A New York gubernatorial candidate calls for drawing the welfare state and the penal state even closer together. The Haitian government bars Wyclef Jean from the presidential election
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Reason Morning Links: WikiLeaks, Wyclef, Walt Disney World
