Many of you were confused (or perhaps annoyed) by the table I posted a couple of days ago in my blog entry on the new tax rules, finding it somewhat internally contradictory. The investigative news organization (and sometimes NPR partner) Propublica...

Governor Andrew Cuomo has been nothing if not consistent on the question of raising taxes for high-end earners:  From his campaign through his latest duels with public employee unions, he condemned the idea. It would, he argued, make New York state...

And while it doesn’t involve extending the millionaire’s tax, it does involve raising taxes on the very wealthy, at least temporarily. This news just came out a few minutes ago via a press release from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s...

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers, and divines — or so thought Ralph Emerson. Is that the proper context for viewing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s sudden embrace of a plan that...

There has been a lot of ink spilled over the failure of the congressional “supercommittee” to find a path toward systemic, long-term deficit reduction. After digging through the various accounts of what went wrong, it strikes me that the...