Good luck keeping a job until you are 66 days.  You'll need even more to get hired in your 60s.

A somewhat dubious argument.  Has the productivity of minimum wage workers increased?  The productivity increase is largely associated with the application of technology to work. Minimum wage jobs do not tend to require much technology. Further, when minimum wage was relatively higher, far more jobs paid minimum wage t...more

It allows an extra few months of after work cycling!    By the way, 12 months of DST was tried,  If you live on the western edge of your time zone, the sun rises at about 9 AM in dead winter if you stay on DST.  School kijds were getting run down waiting for their buses in the dark.    And DSTas we know it was fo...more

In the fall of 1968 Brook's student body shut the school down (who knows why) and the school quickly arranged a concert to calm things down.  The opener was Soft White Underbelly, a local band that became better known as Blue Oyster Cult.  The headloner was Blood Sweat and Tears.  The band that brought the house down w...more

Hard to take seriously anyone who thinks the retirement age is still 65.  For the boomers it was raised to 66 decades ago, and full benefits aren't paid until 70.  If you run the numbers, those collecting social security will get about a 2% return on their lifetime of contributing, after inflation.  Hardly exorbitant, ...more

The Big Box store pre-dates 1962.  But most of the forerunners are long gone.

The mortgage deduction should be eliminated.  The reason it has not been is the realtor lobby, if housing prices go down their commissions go down.  But, to be consistent, all deductions should be eliminated.  The government should not be creating incentives or disincentives to private activity through the tax code, it...more

Yes, you are doing the math wrong.  It says 1/2 of 1 % (.5%). which would be $50,000 a year.  But as with all these sky is falling stories on the economy, it ignores that rates will go back up, when the economy gets stronger.  Of course if we truly have begun the 'slow apocalyse', retirement is the least of your worrie...more

If anyone actually had read the cited article, they would have seen the mayor did slash his own salary.  Scranton going broke.  The artcile unfortunately does not go into the reasons why, but a good guess would be the tax base is so eroded it no longer supports the level government spending the citizenry has come to ex...more