Posts Tagged costs
I Just Don’t Understand
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 11th, 2012
There are a lot of positions conservatives take that I understand, although I disagree with them. There are sincere anti-abortion people who believe life begins at conception, for example. Belief in “fiscal responsibility” leads many people to draw (bad) analogies to household budgets and disputes over what sorts of behaviors actually are fiscally responsible. I [...]
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The Shadow Government
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on October 4th, 2011
A fair amount of my academic research has addressed issues of government privatization–or more accurately, contracting out. (Privatization, as Morton Marcus frequently notes, is what Margaret Thatcher did in England: selling off government enterprises to private sector owners. In the US, privatization means providing government services through for-profit or nonprofit contractors–a very different thing.) My [...]
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Death and Taxes
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on March 27th, 2011
These days, those of us who follow policy debates are suffering from overload: same-sex marriage, immigration policy, foreign policy—not to mention the re-emergence of pocketbook issues like collective bargaining rights—are generating lots of heat, if distressingly little light. And then, of course, there are the perennial complaints about taxes. Everyone, it seems, wants government to [...]
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Factoids to Ponder…..
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 23rd, 2011
As we prepare to lay off teachers, deal a body blow to Planned Parenthood’s ability to provide health care for poor women, further eviscerate civics education, etc., etc., etc.–a few things to ponder (h/t to Greg Kueterman): A Tomahawk missile cost 569,000 in FY99 Factoring in inflation, they probably cost 736,000 =/- today The U.S. [...]
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The Economics of Healthcare Reform
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on November 7th, 2009
It’s getting so I hate to turn on the television, unless I’m watching something I have TIVO’d, and can zip through the commercials. On live TV, there is an ad that runs every few minutes declaring that healthcare reform will add to the national deficit and raise taxes. The ad ends by darkly warning that [...]
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