Tag: government
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Idiotic WSJ article on minimum wage ignores supply in deference to demand
The article linked by this post is utter nonsense. They infer that people can’t afford housing because the minimum wage is too low. They report nothing about the lack of housing being built and government policies in most large cities preventing developers from increasing the supply. The biggest expense for most Americans—housing—is unaffordable for people…
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The notion of an “essential worker” should be offensive to all Americans
In the United States there is no such thing as an essential worker. Well… there used to be no such thing. COVID-19 has given rise to this term and has pushed some people to the front calling them heroes and deeming them essential while others are not. The entire concept of an “essential business” or…
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2024 Republican Presidential possibilities
At the top of my list of possibilities for the 2024 Republican nomination for President of the United States are both Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem. Both are governors of states that used common sense when it came to COVID-19. Governor Noem exercised a little more probably because it was easier for her state given…
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House Democrats ignore rules to ramrod minimum wage increase through
The Democrats have no shame. When the rules don’t favor them they obfuscate, avoid, circumvent, and even ignore them. An effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 as part of the relief package was thrown into doubt after a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian late Thursday. The nonpartisan parliamentarian said that raising…
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Dr. Levine should not be confirmed
Dr. Levine won’t answer a simple question regarding the federal government allowing for minors to make decisions on hormone therapy and surgery on their genitalia. This person should not be confirmed. Exchange between Sen. @RandPaul and Dr. Rachel Levine on on Gender Transition. pic.twitter.com/uL0zPTAmke — CSPAN (@cspan) February 25, 2021
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The U.S. income boost shell game
The government of the United States is playing a dangerous shell game with our money. Look at the headline above. This is the fakest of fake news that I have ever read. It gets even worse in the article. U.S. household income jumped 10% in January as the government delivered stimulus payments to households and…