Bureaucracy and Regulation

President Trump has promised “billions and billions” of dollars in new revenue from his tariffs not to mention economic rejuvenation. The odds are not in his favor, to put it mildly.

Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.

Five years ago, the spread of the Covid-19 virus gave politicians the excuse to go full totalitarian. Their fear-based campaign consisted of authoritarian measures that were based on lies and half-truths.

While Marxist progressives claim that “class conflict” is the source of social ills, the true conflict involves the tax-consuming caste using state power to plunder the productive tax-paying caste.

Ryan McMaken and Chris Calton examine the many ways that government intervention has driven up home prices and made affordable homes harder to find. 

The Atlantic recently published an article claiming that modern “food deserts” exist because the government fails to enforce a New Deal law meant to force up prices and stifle competition. Once again, we see how progressives push their economic illiteracy on everyone else.

State taxpayer dollars are used to keep several money-losing nuclear plants operating. Each nuclear plant should be viewed as a stranded asset, not needing a state subsidy.

The media is spinning the story as a political hot potato: can tariff increases make up for the future revenue losses from extending the income tax reductions from President Trump’s first term?

"The percentage of Americans who have confidence in higher ed has dropped from 65% a decade ago to the low 30s today."

"The government has been throwing money at higher education, and the response has been that a lot more people are going to college that otherwise may have found other pathways."