Archive for the ‘budget’ Category

Focus on the Big Slice

FiveThirtyEight makes a good point: 4.) I’m surprised how unimportant estate and gift taxes are to the overall scheme of things. Even before the generous estate tax credit of the last few years (essentially exempting estates worth less than $3.5 million), estate and gift taxes are remarkably unimportant from a total revenues perspective. It’s obvious [...]

Big Numbers and the Federal Budget

Most people have big problems putting big numbers in perspective, this video should help when it comes to the federal government’s budget