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World Cancer Day was last week, and I’m here with some good news: people are living longer with cancer.THE ACTUARIAL PERSPECTIVE
When I taught actuarial science students at UConn, and talked to them about actuarial topics (I taught two separate classes: one on computing (Excel, Access, VBA) and one on writing (for their degree requirement)), many of the students told me that the stuff I talked about was really depressing.
In my...
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GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS CALLS FOR HIGHER TAXES
Op-ed by Gov. Pritzker Wealthy Illinoisans (like me) should pay more income taxes
To put Illinois back on firm fiscal footing, we must make some hard choices among three feasible options: 1) raise income tax rates on everyone...
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People have been writing about people moving due to tax rates.
So here’s U.S. Population Migration Data, from the IRS, data years 2011-2018.
It can be state-to-state, or county-to-county.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Some of the coverage on tax-driven migration:
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I have chosen CT pensions to dig through because its in the worse position, compared to New York.
I pay a lot of taxes to both CT and NY, so I have direct interests in both states. I have issues with NY pensions, but it’s more a case of governance,...
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Well, supposedly.
I guess all the docile French just fall in line because, ya know, process.
About that “falling in line”….
Baton-wielding police...
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I last updated this in 2019. So why not do a new calculation, now that we’ve got a slate of old, white men (and an old, white woman, and some younger folks who we don’t really care about survivability for).
Prior posts of similar type:
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