Economy
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Maryland legislators pass $15 minimum wage
Maryland lawmakers vote to kills jobs and businesses, and make households subject to a higher tax bite while they lose…
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Pentagon spending should be cut
Instead of cutting wasteful spending, our politicians want to spend trillions of dollars we don't have on new programs, like…
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Americans like taxes on other people and magical economics
The Green New Deal would also shrink the economy by discouraging people from working, leaving the government with less money…
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AOC: Americans should be ‘excited’ about ‘being automated out of work’
Over the weekend Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an appearance at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin where she made…
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In Somalia, no government meant better cell phone service
Anarchy is bad, but a totalitarian government is much worse. That seems to be the lesson of Somalia, a balkanized…
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Kamala Harris backs rent control
Rent control has been tried many times before by local governments, always with negative results: The supply and quality of…
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Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Ivanka Trump over ‘Green New Deal’ criticism, gets pwned
Ocasio-Cortez also argues that a minimum wage is a right that should be afforded all people, even apparently those unwilling…
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Minimum wage hike to $15 wipes out jobs
By advocating minimum wage hikes, people get to signal their own political virtue — at the expense of other people’s…
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Green dreams wither in the face of political realities
Local politics is turning against the "green" energy projects needed to reach some states' goals for renewables.
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Oregon adopts rent control, first such statewide law in the U.S.
'You’d be hard-pressed to find any economist who comes out in favor of rent control as a means to help…
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Green New Deal? Biggest U.S. city to go ‘100% renewable’ lost millions on wind, solar
New Deal, same as the old deal. No such thing as a free lunch, not even from the sun or…
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Bonus point: Serious effort to commit $90 trillion to GND would blow up money as we know it
How to blow up one of the chief wonders of modern civilization.
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49 percent of Democrats want a socialist economy
The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that Democratic elder statesmen such as former President Jimmy Carter…
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Report: Green New Deal could cost every U.S. household $65,000 a year
The resolution also calls for a slew of welfare programs, from federal job guarantees to universal health care, and for…
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Conservatives don’t outnumber liberals
Why do conservatives lose so many elections? Partly because they harbor pleasant fantasies about the electorate, fantasies that keep them…
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Leading Democrats endorse reparations, which could cost trillions
If a liberal politician gets elected president in 2020 and appoints more liberal justices to the Supreme Court, the Supreme…
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The Green New Deal isn’t just about energy: It’s also about controlling what Americans eat
'I think it’s pretty clear they want to change people’s consumption habits,' Nic Loris, an energy economist at the conservative…
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Ocasio-Cortez offers up a double dip of cluelessness on the Amazon botch
A number of people, including MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, pointed out the glaring error in Ocasio-Cortez’s thinking.
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Cuomo aide’s tasteless dig at former Fla. Governor invokes Parkland school shootings
The tweet was not meant as a taunt, but that is how it was taken by Cuomo senior adviser Rich Azzopardi,…
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Cuomo blames NY State’s Democratically-controlled Senate for scaring off Amazon
"A small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community — which poll after poll showed…
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Ocasio-Cortez ‘wins,’ NY loses as Amazon cancels plan for new HQ in Queens
'Lost the community 25,000 jobs and over $27.5 billion in tax revenues.' That's not the sort of boast you often…
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The tax system explained in beer: So simple even AOC can follow it
Today's lesson on how the tax system works seems especially well suited to Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez — first because she…
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Will rent control come to Virginia?
Support for rent control is growing among progressives: With the backing of Gov. Kate Brown (D), Oregon's liberal government is…
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Ralph Northam racially panders to save his own skin
Northam plainly hopes such boondoggles will purchase goodwill from black voters offended by the revelation that his medical-school yearbook page…
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The Green New Deal is actually a Brown New Deal
The Green New Deal is incredibly unrealistic. It might just as well have proposed generating all of America's energy from…
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Mass transit boondoggles cause traffic congestion and pollution
Many recent transportation bond measures have been deceptively pitched to voters as being about road construction, but actually divert much…
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Bethune-Hill ruling imposes political gerrymander on Virginia voters
The court's ruling is a political gerrymander that purports to fix a racial gerrymander.
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Strange bedfellows: George Soros slams China, to the right of trump on Huawei, ZTE
Soros’s position on China appears to dovetail nicely with Trump’s while at the same time speaks to his concerns about threats to…
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Why has ‘Morning Joe’ secretly been taping from Florida (and pretending otherwise)?
The whole thing is perfectly legal — just hypocritical.
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Elizabeth Warren follows Ocasio-Cortez’s lead, goes after the wealthy in new tax proposal
Maybe it's no accident that presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren got the number of co-equal branches of government wrong in an interview…
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Virginia may hike minimum wage to $15 in 2020
By advocating minimum wage hikes, people get to signal their own political virtue -- at the expense of other people's…
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Ocasio-Cortez: Like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change
Ocasio-Cortez has expressed her naïve belief before that the government somehow just 'gets' the money to pay for urgent programs…
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Porn site reports increase in traffic in D.C. during government shutdown
It's unclear whether it's a function of correlation, causation, or just pure coincidence. Could it be that furloughed government workers…
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New York’s $15 minimum wage is now in effect. How’s it working out for city restaurants workers?
It's rare that the results of a change in economic policy are visible so quickly. On Dec. 31, 2018, the…
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