Today, Scotland makes its own policy for its health service, nurseries, schools, colleges, universities, police, prisons, courts, councils, cultural institutions and in some areas of economic development. Most things of importance, really. The Holyrood parliament is responsible for more than half of public spending in Scotland, but less than one-tenth of the tax revenues. An annual …
Under a law passed in 2006 the US Postal Service was forced to pre-fund its retiree health benefits through 2016. Most organisations pay for health care as when the bills come in. Not USPS. The postal service had to find over $5.5 billion a year to pay up-front for the healthcare of employees who were not …
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A regular reader and commenter has asked the following question: Should Greece leave the Euro now and go it alone? Or stay and hope for reform, with the possibility that going it alone could hurt its economy even more? Also, how should a country like Britain respond to the crisis? In a sense the EU …
California Gov. Jerry Brown recently authorized one of the strictest vaccination rules in America, signing a bill that makes vaccinations mandatory for almost every school-age child in the state. Only children with certain medical conditions will now be allowed to sidestep the requirement; parents who refuse to get their children vaccinated will have to arrange home …
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Yesterday I discussed Greece, which owes its creditors about $330 billion, estimated to be 177 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. This post is about a sensible outcome to the crisis. The euro should be wound up as gracefully as possible before the whole, great European project falls flat on its face, a victim …
