Economy
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Virginia may repeal law protecting workers against having to join union
One giant step backward for Virginians and the state economy, if Democrats have their way.
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Women (and others) who menstruate are demanding ‘period equity’
Now there is a movement afoot to outlaw sales tax on tampons and pads.
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Kellogg’s introduces cereal exclusively for the LGBTQ community
You might think I'm pulling your leggo, but it's for real. Breakfast cereal manufacturing giant Kellogg’s is about to roll…
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Bill would punish firms for hiring part-time workers
Dismal logic for the politics of a dismal science.
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Virginia likely to raise taxes
Taxes are likely to increase a lot in Virginia over the next several years. Democratic spending proposals will add at…
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Rent control harms workers and tenants
Consequences: second-order, unintended - and very costly.
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Great news: Ocasio-Cortez has figured out how she’s going to pay for Green New Deal
So, if the Green New Deal is still projected to cost $93 trillion, Ocasio-Cortez comes up $90 trillion short, even…
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What do people mean by ‘corporate welfare’?
To people on the Right, corporate welfare means that a company gets a taxpayer subsidy, or that it gets a…
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Is everything ‘commerce’ that Congress can restrict?
Spiders and their fate lack any qualitative relationship to interstate commerce.
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Replace Trump with Pence
Trump is widely hated -- 69% of voters say they dislike Trump personally -- and he is thus likely to…
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Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Just Society’ proposal would make society anything but just
It’s all pretty vague, though what is clear is that these proposals, if implemented, will do the exact opposite of…
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Bernie’s rent-control proposal is extreme even for a socialist
An idea whose time never was.
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Ocasio-Cortez trying to prevent new jobs from coming into her district … again
According to a poll conducted in June, first-term Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a 22% approval rating among members of her…
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Biden claims tax credit will put ‘720 million women’ back in workforce: just one problem
'You get a tax break for a racehorse. Why in God’s name couldn’t we provide an $8,000 tax credit for…
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Progressives seek to shut down earth-friendly nuclear plants
In The New York Times, Harvard's Steven Pinker and two environmental experts noted that nuclear power plants are essential to the…
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Elizabeth Warren to struggling families dependent on oil jobs: There are other jobs
'They’re worried about jobs, and so what do you tell the pipe fitters and cafeteria workers in Port Arthur, what…
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Biden claims Trump tax cuts didn’t work, cites Heritage Foundation. Just one problem
'Pivoting to the debt as his concern on the tax cuts is completely disingenuous, especially when revenue isn’t the problem.'
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Former member of Obama cabinet: We need illegals to ‘mow our beautiful lawns’
If illegals weren’t performing those jobs, legal immigrants and Americans would be doing them at higher wages, paying more in…
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Ocasio-Cortez’s latest plan to save the planet will have you shaking your head
The most practical alternative to gas-powered cars, electric cars, are already a reality in the U.S., with 208,000 such vehicles…
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God backs job-killing minimum-wage law, Buttigieg says
There are many low-cost areas where a couple each making $12 per hour can afford a perfectly good middle class…
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$15 minimum wage constricts hours worked, as Bernie Sanders shows
A $15 minimum wage will set in motion a negative chain reaction in low-wage regions by reducing transfer payments to…
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Home equity theft: How a man’s home was seized over $8.41 in unpaid taxes
The unconstitutional practice of home equity theft has allowed individuals to be stripped of their property without fair compensation. But…
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‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib calls for $20 minimum wage
Candidates could be provided with projections of how much more severe the layoff might be if the $20 minimum wage…
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House votes to wipe out jobs by doubling minimum wage
Same bad idea, same bad consequences.
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Support for $15 minimum wage plummets when Americans are told about its economic impact
By Jon Miltimore Minimum wage laws, I’ve noted, are popular with the public. This no doubt explains why House Democrats passed a bill…
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Restaurant chain announces bankruptcy, says minimum wage hikes to blame
The Congressional Budget Office released a report estimating that a House bill designed to raise the federal minimum wage to…
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Trump prepares to roll back one of dumbest energy regulations ever imposed
Making appliances great again.
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Hispanderfest: Spanish spoken 8 times by 3 different speakers at first Dem debate
The first candidate to hispander was Beto O’Rourke, who suddenly and inexplicably lapsed into Spanish while fielding a question on…
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Punitive child support collection practices backfire
If people are in debt, it doesn't make sense to take away their ability to pay their debt. But that…
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Sanders proposes forgiving entire $1.6 trillion in U.S. student loan debt
Herbert Hoover's pledge during the presidential campaign of 1928 to put ‘a chicken in every pot’ is beginning to look…
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