Interesting study.  I guess the conclusion is based on the premise that killing a mouse is evil.  Mice are generally considered pests so under that circumstance killing one is perfectly acceptable.  There are other situations where people are paid to kill rodents like in bounty scenario where there is an infestation pr...more

How is speeding less safe (i.e. lower rate hike percent) than driving without a license?    A license is plastic piece of paper that says you are at least 70% skilled at operating a motor vehicle.  (Or whatever the pass/fail rate is).  It says nothing about how good of a driver you are.

1) The way the system is set up, today's revenue is paying for your monthly SSI check or Medicare cost.  Not dissimilar to a pyramid scheme. 2) The taxes confiscated from your 41 years of paychecks was given to someone who is now dead.  Your money wasn't stored in a vault for safe keeping until you needed it. 3) ...more

Well stated.  Misanthrope.  You've changed my mind.

" $15 trillion of U.S. investment in the global economy generates income that is increasingly out of the reach of U.S. tax authorities," Stoopid Federal Government, they assume high tax rates equal high tax revenue.  If they used a super low rate like 3- 5% on that $15T  of investments earned outside of the US than ...more

Interesting, a centrist Democratic think tank is standing up for the youth in this country.   Without a doubt both Medicare and Social Security Insurance is a wealth redistribution scheme from the young to the old.  Every cent collected from your paycheck for SSI and Medicare is essentially spent the same day on a r...more

Priceless to one husband and one to several children but not to anyone else.   For everyone else the price is easy to determine.  What would you be willing to pay for someone else to take over the child care, cooking, cleaning, etc.?  What are market rates for those jobs is what insure.com is trying to determine.  A...more

For anyone happy with their health insurance before the law remember, Obamacare was "designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans". You cannot expect to bring non-payers into the system and still keep costs down.  Who do you think pays for those 30 million?   Don't be surprised when costs go ...more

That is exactly the point of the article.  The small businesses are hit harder by obamacare than big businesses.  The dirty little secret of all regulations is that the small guy is always at a disadvantage to the big guy.  Small business will struggle to compete.. If you hate small business and love big corporation...more