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I hope these lawsuits fail.
(dammit, my tax dollars are going to this)
Four states sue Trump administration over tax law
Four states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over the $1.5 trillion tax-cut law, saying a new cap on a state and local tax deduction is an illegal infringement on states’...
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Dang it, I get distracted by some sweet sweet mortality results, and two big announcements come through.
Let me do the second first.
JUSTICE KENNEDY ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Announces Retirement
His retirement opens pivotal vacancy on the high court going into midterm elections
Anthony M. Kennedy,...
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I do not apologize for a lack of a Wednesday post… I had way too much fun at the spring meeting of the Actuarial Club of Hartford & Springfield, and evidently a few of those actuaries read this blog (howdy, y’all!)
Don’t worry – I will continue my look at...
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Let’s hit it!
MEGAN MCARDLE ON HIGH TAX STATES
Megan McArdle at WaPo: Democrats are about to have to pay up
Before the ink was dry on our new tax bill, outraged blue states were screaming about the cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes....
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There have been weapons in the past that were pointed in only one way (fixed guns/cannons in times of yore); it would cut off approach from a specific direction, but that just meant people were likely to come from the rear. Alas, unlike details about public pensions, I cannot...
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Today’s lovely divestment follies comes from someone who got press because he’s “just a kid”, but in the interim he entered legal adulthood (and the media circus has moved on). I am not even going to use his name, because: I don’t want to. (I will be quoting his tweets...
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I’ve decided to switch up my approach this time. I generally put in a bunch of news items and then do short comments, and then wrap up with my high-level commentary.
This time I’m starting with my high-level commentary, and then if you want to glory in all the supporting...
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Let’s go with the first idiotic idea, the less idiotic idea, and then the amusing backlash.
Schwarzenegger to Sue Big Oil for ‘First Degree Murder’
AUSTIN, Texas — Arnold Schwarzenegger’s next mission: taking oil companies to court “for knowingly killing people all over the world.”
The former California governor and global...
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I thought Sunday would be it for McCabe’s pension discussion, but a whole bunch of links came up in my pension news alert the last couple days, so let’s do this.
BUNCH OF NEWS LINKS
For people who just want the links, and not my commentary, I open...
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