Tag: government
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Eric Zorn pushes misinformation regarding who the U.S. Senate represents
For the underinformed or poorly educated the United States Senate does not represent “the people” per se. They are there to represent the state from which they were elected. Elementary school civics teaches you this. If you don’t know this and you were educated in the United States you were either successfully propagandized or you…
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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…