Thursday Links – 28 May 2026

The corporate tax rate really matters.

The corporate Laffer curve: Despite the sizable cut in tax rates, corporate tax payments to Treasury rose from a low of $189 billion in the 12 months ending Jan. ’19, to $516 billion in the 12 months ending August ’24–a whopping increase of 173%! 

Heart disease gone in one gene edit. (NYT)

How the US bent the health care cost curve.

Medicare for all would mean giving the same amount of money we now spend to the same insurance companies that receive it today.