As I May Think

Fiscal Fictions #5: Taxes Discourage Investment

A Dialogue on Taxation, Full Expensing, and the Neutrality of Capital Investment

Jun 25 • Bob Wyman

May 2026

The Death Benefit: Fiscal Fictions Part IV

The Government's Greatest Gift to the Wealthy Should Have a Name

May 27 • Bob Wyman

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The Government Can’t Print Money — Or Can It?

How a Legal Choice Became a Law of Nature, and Who Benefits from the Confusion

May 23 • Bob Wyman

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The Debt Ceiling Was Built to Help Treasury Borrow — Then Someone Found the Gun

How a Tool of Congressional Deference Became a Weapon of Extortion

May 15 • Bob Wyman

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The Social Security Trust Fund Is a Comfortable Lie — and We’re Paying for It in Confused Citizens

How Congress Taught Americans to Misunderstand Their Own Government

May 13 • Bob Wyman

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March 2026

Surplus Capacity Taxation: A Minimal Statement

Grounding Tax Policy in Principle Rather than Compromise

Mar 28 • Bob Wyman

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The Spiral Widens: Why Every Profession Now Has the Vibe-Coding Problem

And What to Do About It (Essay 2 in Spiral Series)

Mar 18 • Bob Wyman

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The Next Turn of the Spiral: Fixing Vibe Coding Without Reinventing Software Engineering

We've been here before. We know what to do.

Mar 15 • Bob Wyman

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Neither Watchman nor Revolution: Government, Capability, and the Logic of Collective Learning

Don't overthrow government. Evolve it.

Mar 5 • Bob Wyman

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February 2026

Capitalism’s Empirical Test: The US Fails, Czech Republic Passes?

Evidence from Household Saving Data Across Ten Countries

Feb 26 • Bob Wyman

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The Benefit IS the Ability-to-Pay

Why the Two Great Principles of Tax Justice Were Always the Same Idea

Feb 20 • Bob Wyman

Why Are Capitalists Anti-Capitalist?

What capitalism actually requires, and why almost no one is defending it

Feb 13 • Bob Wyman

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