- Sometimes it seems as if "Conversation" has become a bad word in our country, as if talking to someone not in complete agreement with you is a sign of weakness. Sometimes it seems as if Anger is the only energizing force we allow ourselves. I believe in a different America. An America where two people can disagree but still respect the basic humanity of the other person. An America where it is possible to disagree without hate, to talk without shouting. I believe, even still, in the ideal of the United States of America, a democracy where each person has the right to pursue their own life, and have their own opinion. If our country is less great than it once was, it is because we have slipped away from this idea, this belief that all men and women have the right to choose the course of their own lives, and their own opinions. It is both the left and the right that have slipped away from this idea, allowed their anger to somehow convince themselves to question the humanity of the other side. Sometimes it seems that fighting anger with reason is impossible. But if history has proven anything, it is that reason does always eventually win. This blog is my effort to again have a conversation, to replace anger with reason. I hope you will join me in a conversation, and together we can recapture the faith in our country and our citizens that made America great.
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Category Archives: Policy
We Need to Move to a Revenue Based Corporate Tax
The US and other countries have proposed a global 15% minimum corporate tax. However, it’s not a change in tax rates that our corporate tax system needs, it’s a change in structure. We need to move from taxing profit to … Continue reading
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A Quarter Acre and a Mortgage
Proposal: Make direct cash payments to Section 8 recipients to allow them, in conjunction with a church or non-profit, to purchase a house and build personal equity instead of renting an apartment. Background: Ultimately, the goal of any safety net … Continue reading
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For a “Social” Schema for Education
Better data capture and analysis are becoming important tools in our efforts to improve education in the United States. Increasingly districts and schools have a detailed, accurate picture of what happens to students inside the walls of a school, with … Continue reading
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White Paper – SELF-MANAGED GROUPS AND HEALTHCARE REFORM
We are interested in feedback. Please send your comments and thoughts to: Blake.ashby@adjudica.net Thank you for your time and assistance. SELF-MANAGED GROUPS AND HEALTHCARE REFORM For all of our talk of healthcare as an individual resource, “my healthcare”, it is … Continue reading
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Risk and Healthcare Reform
Self-managed groups offer perhaps the only meaningful opportunity for healthcare reform in the United States. For all of our talk of healthcare as an individual resource, “my healthcare”, it is actually a group resource, a shared risk pool like any … Continue reading
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Tax Rates and Job Creators
In the debate over extending the Bush Tax Cuts Republicans continued their argument that higher taxes on millionaires, the people Republicans refer to as “Job Creators”, will result in fewer jobs being created. But it’s just not true. Higher taxes … Continue reading
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Romney, Ryan and Medicare
The selection of Cong. Paul Ryan as Romney’s running mate will again focus attention on Ryan’s proposal to privatize Medicare. Ryan (and now Romney) are rightly credited with bravery for talking about entitlements during an election year. However Ryan’s proposal … Continue reading
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An Even Harder Healthcare Question
By upholding the Affordable Care Act the Supreme Court settled one of the hard questions that faced our country – we have an obligation to make sure that every U.S. citizen has access to medical care. And eventually the Affordable … Continue reading
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The Strange Fascination with School Choice
Somehow School Choice has developed quite a following among otherwise rational people who do in fact understand how the free market works. Mitt Romney, with his speech on educational reform to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has apparently joined the … Continue reading
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Taxation Transparency
You know what I’d like to see on my tax return? A box that has me calculate the percentage of my income I paid in taxes. And right next to that calculation I’d like to see a little table that … Continue reading
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