Jonathan Gruber
Jonathan Gruber
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Digital business means a theoretically infinite amount of stock space, but there's a downside to that limitless space. You have to be able to find the stuff you're looking for.
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What's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits-but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying [to] your citizens you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this.
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If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.
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Doubling the frequency of attendance leads to a 9.1 percent increase in household income, or a rise of 5.5 percent as a fraction of the poverty scale.
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We already have a large number of retirement savings vehicles in the United States. It is not clear why we need yet another tax break for savings for rich guys.
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Those with more faith may be less 'stressed out' about daily problems that impede success in the labor market and the marriage market, and therefore are more successful.
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It was a massive success - it blew us away.
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There's a vast amount of (classical) repertoire and recordings, not to mention a number of different varieties of consumer interest, and it's very tough to try to pack all of that into a traditional store.
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there is very strong evidence of racial segregation in church-going, so that the density of Hispanics or non-whites in a religion in some area is not likely to be relevant for the religious participation of whites in that area.
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Smokers are made better-off by taxes, as they provide a valuable self-control device, ... Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?
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Great music can and should reach an extremely broad audience. When you walk into a retail store, you're blown away; it can be very intimidating to a newcomer. What the digital medium allows us to do is to focus attention on recordings, artists and composers whom we think will appeal to a lot of people, and break through a lot of the barriers that exist in the physical retail world.
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Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,
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Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
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The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.