in fact, if we could measure accurately, the prediction is people with a larger manon, if everyone had them, would be less happy. because it's a lot more trouble to keep track of th staff you need to recruit and train to maintain a bigger mansion. so this is money that could be diverted from those in spending patterns to pay for otherhings that would really make a difference in real people's lives. that's the claim. it sounds ke snake oil. money for nothing but there is no controversial assumption built for anywhere into the ardley. it is just based on the observation, which i attribute to charles darwin that reward depends on many situations on relative performance, not absolute performance. when we are in situations like that arms races that generate waste, are the norm. and they are very simple policies for short-circuiting arms races and freeing u resources. i will just mention very quickly in conclusion a simple policy step that we might take to haest some of e resources. right now we have a progressive income tax. my proposal is tocrap the progressive income tax and adopt in its

what a new poll says about who will take up residence in the governor's manon. >> cause of death. a medical exercise reveals how a yale graduate student was killed. the key evidence police are now waiting for. >>> good morning, everyone, and welcome to "news 4 today." i'm barbara harrison. >> and i'm keith garvin sitting in for joe krebs. it is thursday, september 17th, 2009. let's give you a live look outside right now. boy, lots of clouds out there. pretty damp as we had some overnight showers. >> we're going to find out if that will be the case today as we face a thursday on the horizon out there right now. >> yeah, sun will be coming up in about two hours, but we have quite a bit of rain that's going to be a wet morning commute in virginia. early morning start, wet across most of northern virginia, the shenandoah valley and this is just about to move into maryland w just now crossing the potomac river, coming into montgomery county, that area of rain will continue moving off to the north and east over the next couple of hours. in washington, 65 degrees with an east breeze arou