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So transportation ballot measures were a mixed bag. Like youre talking about earlier, the federal gas tax has not been raised in about 20 years. Most states have raised theirs in about 20 years, and states are constantly worried about finding money for infrastructure to pay for road repair and bridge repair. It is an issue that voters really care about. There was good news on tuesday in texas, wisconsin and maryland. Voters approved measures either to increase or protect transportation funding. In texas they are not going to put a part of the revenues from oil and gas taxes toward paying for t...

Not doing what the technocrats wanted to do . I will have to confess i wasnt prepared to answer that question when i walked into the room. I knew who you were talking about and i have read the articles more than once that you refer to. I guess i would say. Take a swing at it. [laughter] [laughter] how about if i answer slightly different question which is i mean i guess my view is behavior economics is, what it does is it tries to expand the scope of understanding of what is driving behavior and what are the tools you could use to influence behavior . And what you want to take a light handed a...

60s are contributing at the contribution limits. Thank you mr. Chairman. Please go ahead. If i could ask a question. The behavioral economics have shown a couple of successes into some of us are concerned about it contains some who rather than providing the much to help people navigate different decisionmaking would provide a fullfledged private citizens. It seems that some operate on the notion that academic and government technocrats are infallible and they tell how they should leave their wives and allocated to the resources. The former oversoul in the Environment Administration along with ...

So personal savings can only go so far for these individuals. At the same time though Social Security treat single women far less well than it does married women so they are not getting much help from that end of things either. Thats one reason i and others have proposed reforming Social Security to provide a flat universal benefit for all retirees regardless of income participation. On top of that individual would save in accounts provided through their employer or of not available through the government. This approach is qualitatively similar to that of the u. K. Australia canada and new zea...

At seven pm eastern. Coming up, the Senate Finance Committee Hears testimony. Tax and retirement policy analysts speak about the gap between how much americans are saving and savings needed. This runs two hours. The finance committee will come to order. When you take a look at the state of Retirement Savings in america, america, it is clear that something is out of whack. The american taxpayer delivers 140 140 billion each year to subsidize retirement accounts, but still millions of americans nearing retirement have little or nothing saved. The fact is, the, the incentives for saving and the a...