Tag: Politics
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Trump is trying to shove the globalism toothpaste back in the tube and it’s making a mess
What a mess! To protect your sanity, and in the interest of keeping a cool head, I recommend you just don’t look at your portfolio this week… or maybe this month… heck maybe this year. The point is, don’t panic, don’t lose your cool, and if you have an investment strategy that plans for downturns…
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Your incompetent federal overlords: IRS modernization project is 30 years behind and $15 Billion over budget
Sam Corcos, an adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), appeared on Fox News to discuss the IRS’s so-called modernization effort. This effort, to update the IRS’s ancient technology (it runs on 1960s mainframes programmed with COBOL and assembly language) is 30 years behind schedule and $15 billion over budget. Corcos points out that…
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Media Throws Tantrum on Tesla’s Taxes
Tesla had about in $7.1 billion in net income last year and paid almost nothing in taxes… so they say. The outrage machine kicked into high gear and it’s easy to think Elon Musk is ripping off the nation and taxpayers. The story, honestly, is less about Tesla dodging taxes and more about how most…
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Trump’s deportation attempt of Khalil may not be an overstep after all
On March 10, I wrote about how Trump’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil might be overreach. Punishing someone for speech is not allowed in this country… on most occasions. I knew Khalil was a green card holder and assumed he had the same free speech rights as citizens. I didn’t know he agreed to and…
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Trump may have just stepped over the totalitarian line
The First Amendment isn’t a suggestion. Why do so many people in power think it is? I read an article in The Wall Street Journal about ICE agents raiding an apartment near Columbia University, arresting Mahmoud Khalil, and starting the process of revoking his green card. His supposed crime is pro-Palestinian activism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism.…
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) failed before it began
I was fully behind the idea of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Especially when it was reported to be headed by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. I was a supporter of Ramaswamy’s ideas of culling entire departments within the federal government and slashing regulations like never before. I thought the team of Ramaswamy, who…