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The governor of Indiana posted this on Facebook yesterday:
Today I signed a proclamation calling a special session for the General Assembly to take action to return more than $1 billion of state reserves to Hoosier taxpayers.
This is the fastest, fairest and most efficient way to return taxpayers’ hard-earned...
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There was a special election on Tuesday, June 7, in which less than 4% of Providence, Rhode Island voters showed up.
Of that 4%, 70% agreed to the issuance of $515 million in pension obligation bonds. This would be a new liability, on top of the liabilities they already have....
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Given how mortality-heavy this blog has been for at least 18 months now, you may be unaware that my blogging was originally about public finance and not death.
(But death and taxes do go so well together.)
With a little help from my meme brain trust (they know who they are), I...
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I think there are two inherent types of problems, or situations, in the human condition.
The first, I would argue isn’t a true problem. It’s that something is wrong, and we don’t know what to do.
Now, we might be able to figure it out, eventually. Or it might...
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Nutshell of my argument below:
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I hope its shambling wreck isn’t resurrected next year, but if Chuck Schumer keeps bringing it up for a vote, and it keeps getting put back into its grave, I’m just fine with that.
While the Democrats keep sticking knives in each others’ backs, let...
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This strikes me as deeply unwise:
Chicago police vaccine mandate: New CPD memo threatens discipline, firing for non-compliance
- A second memo, obtained by the I-Team, was distributed throughout CPD Sunday. The latest memo threatens the firing of officers who do not follow the city’s vaccine policy and orders...
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Ah, the air has gotten a bit nippy, and it’s time to revisit what a mess most state finances are!
Here is their announcement video:
(some jazzy music for...
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For this Labor Day, let me check out the latest Social Security news.
I will get to the “news” item in a moment — that is, the bit everybody covers in their annual bits on the Social Security Trustees Report.
There’s a statistical supplement that accompanies this...
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For those relatively new to STUMP, you may not know that I used to have a weekly feature called “Taxing Tuesday” (in my pre-substack days). I’m not just about mortality here, but also public finance, especially tax policy!
Party!
Seriously, though, tax policy can be fun to watch, as with...
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