Health care reform debates dazzled us with extremes like single-payer, total government takeover, and death panels. It ended up somewhere rather less unspectacular: regulating the health insurance industry. What this 2,309 page bill lacks in sizzle, though, it makes up for in noteworthiness. The President preached competition, choice, and bringing tens of millions of unisured [...]

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan has been getting a lot of pub lately. I saw a few interviews with him online which seemed promising as a voice of reason within the entitlement and debt spending arena. I described him on our Twitter feed as “one of the most lucid politicians I’ve heard in some time”, and declared “The US debt, entitlement disaster may have at least one hope in DC, and his name is Congressman #PaulRyan”.

According to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, 47% of U.S. households are projected to owe zero federal income tax in 2009. (1) Is this good, bad, or inconsequential?