Case for a Modestly Higher Progressive Taxation ~50% Rate on Top 0.1% of All Incomes ~1 & 2% Annual Tax on Top 0.1 & .01% Wealth I am a retired, Indian American psychiatrist, arrived in America in 1971. I have some fourteen, mostly single-author publications in the behavioral science […]
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CASE FOR FAIRER PROGRESSIVE TAXATION “The country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” So said FDR at the depth of the Great Depression, recognizing the difficulty in […]
Associational loosening, slow and faulty information processing, poor gating of irrelevant stimuli, poor ability to shift attention, poor working memory, passivity, ambivalence, anhedonia, and impaired motor coordination are cardinal features of schizophrenia but, unlike delusions and hallucinations, they are related more to negative/deficit symptoms. As summarized by Bass, numerous studies […]
Two hypotheses presented here may seem too good to be true. And it may well be so. If not, these hypotheses have substantial utility. In any case, these simplified versions need to be reformulated as more research results are accumulated or existing ones unbeknownst to the author are incorporated. Supporting […]
Higher body hair with lower mesmorphism ratings were observed in Caucasian homosexual men compared with the general male population, reflecting elevated 5alpha-reductase (5αR) activity, and higher dihydrotestosterone-to-testosterone (DHT-to-T) ratio, in sharp contrast to 46,XY 5R 2 deficiency subjects, who are often born with ambiguous, or female genitalia, but tend to […]