Kevin Bae
Non-Social in a Socially Networked World
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California’s Experiment with Tariffs on Wages Backfires
Talk of tariffs is all over the news, with President Trump slapping them on imports from Canada, Mexico, the EU, and China. Most Americans understand that tariffs can drive up prices. But what they don’t see is that a tariff isn’t just a tax on foreign goods, it’s any artificial cost imposed on a market,…
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Biden’s Housing Bubble Worse than Obama’s
Why didn’t we hear a peep about the massive housing bubble President Biden’s policies quietly inflated? The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been handing out guaranteed loans like candy, letting borrowers take on mortgages they can barely afford, often with debt-to-income ratios topping 43%, sometimes even 64% in recent years. It started with loosened underwriting…
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Congress Created the Imperial Presidency, Enjoy
Why does Congress even exist anymore? They’re supposed to write laws, not dodge them. But here’s the dirty secret: they’re too scared of losing elections to do their jobs. Take the FCC. Congress knows it can’t pass a law stomping on free speech. So they create an agency under the executive branch, hand it a…
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The federal government is 99.975% unelected
The next time you hear anyone rant that Elon Musk is not elected show them this chart (numbers provided by ChatGPT). There are only 542 elected federal officials. Here is the breakdown. That’s it. The rest are either appointed or hired. The argument is absurd and meant to reframe Musk’s efforts as beyond or above…
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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…
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Biden lied about pre-emptive pardons just like he lied about pardoning his son Hunter
Watch Joe Biden in December 2020 on CNN talking about how he won’t do pre-emptive pardons. The question came about because the media was floating the erroneous idea that Trump would grant some pre-emptive pardons before leaving office in 2021. Biden is the biggest liar and asshat to ever sit in the Oval Office. His…
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