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		<title>Tax and the Unemployment Benefit are not Unemployment Insurance</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/tax-and-the-unemployment-benefit-are-not-unemployment-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenwhittington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few people of vastly different world views have been getting annoyed that the Welfare Reform group is going to be examining the option of unemployment insurance &#8211; and some think they should choose a better model to examine. I want to examine the reason why it is frustrating those on the left. No Right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=256&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/happiness-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had intended to do a detailed follow-up to my earlier post about happiness research.  However, I think the reasons for my scepticism of the work by Derek Bok and others have already been expressed far more cogently by Steven Landsberg, Will Wilkinson, and Richard Epstein. Recall that Bok thinks there is a troubling disconnect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=254&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re happy and you know it, clap your hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the heading &#8220;Too much wealth can make us worse off: study&#8221;, the New Zealand Herald reported on Monday about an article published by two Canadian academics: Using mathematical modelling, the economists advance the theory that once a country reaches a reasonable standard of living there is little further benefit to be had from increasing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=251&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spending in the New Jersey gubernatorial race</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/spending-in-the-new-jersey-gubernatorial-race/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral Finance Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jono has previously posted on the uncertain relationship between election spending and election outcomes (noting that other factors such as national partisan swings and candidate attributes mean that election spending is not strongly determinative of election outcomes). Spending reports from last year’s governor’s race in New Jersey, in which the Republican challenger Chris Christie beat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=248&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/the-cost-of-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenwhittington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom of speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is slightly different than the usual post here. The main difference is that I am more unsure of the full implications of my current view than usual. It seems pretty obvious to me that one still has free speech even when the speech will cost. For example, making sexist remarks may mean others [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=246&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A culture of justification?</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/a-culture-of-justification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral Finance Reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, unlike its Canadian and American equivalents, is not supreme law. If a provision of any enactment is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act, section 4 explicitly states that the enactment prevails. This has led some to conclude that our Bill of Rights is &#8220;weak&#8221;. While it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=239&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court grants cert. in funeral picketing case</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/supreme-court-grants-cert-in-funeral-picketing-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom of speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear an appeal from the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Snyder v Phelps, which raises difficult and controversial issues about the extent to which tort liability can arise from speech by funeral picketers. Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=232&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gambling and Tax I</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/gambling-and-tax-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenwhittington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is often said that income tax law subsidises gambling. Because there is no income tax on winnings from earnings, there is a &#8220;tax expenditure&#8221; which subsidises gambling. Philosophically the concept of tax expenditure is difficult &#8211; after all, what does it mean to say that an activity should otherwise be taxed? &#8211; but the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=226&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dances with Smurfs</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/dances-with-smurfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally saw Avatar this week. I went mainly to see what it would be like to see a feature-length film in 3-D. I didn&#8217;t have particularly high hopes for the film having heard a basic summary of the plot. Sadly, even my low expectations were too high. Sure the film has some impressive graphics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=215&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Greg</title>
		<link>http://todaysdissent.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/im-not-sure-i-agree-with-you-a-hundred-percent-on-your-police-work-there-greg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Herald reports that Police Association President Greg O&#8217;Connor is calling on the judiciary to start convicting people for insulting police to help counter a culture of disrespect. According to Mr O&#8217;Connor, such disrespect leads to assaults on police officers. Apparently yelling &#8220;bugger off&#8221; to a cop is OK but if one yells &#8220;f*ck off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=todaysdissent.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12061493&amp;post=211&amp;subd=todaysdissent&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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