Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2025.
excerpt:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reported late last year that 1.2 million U.S.s. were enrolled in Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance programs in two or more states. The agency worked with a software engineer to review the registration data, but found someone else.
July 22, 2025 by Liberty’s Kato, Romina Boccia and Vivan Naccibia.
excerpt:
According to the latest report from Social Secury Trustees, Congress was woven into the program’s current $25 trillion, $75 trillion law to seek to raise the 12.4-16.05 pay tax rates immediately and permanently, between 12.4 and 16.05 conflicts. For hypothetical median workers entering the workforce at age 22 in 2025, this tax increase would reduce lifetime revenues in the current valued cell over a 45-year career (see Methodology Appendix). This is roughly equivalent to giving up a 20-month salary on the average monthly wage for workers.
and:
Even eliminating the Social Security Tax cap, even obtaining IncomCTs earned against payroll taxes does not solve the financial problems of the program in the long run. As Jessica Reedle of the Manhattan Institute explains in detail, eliminating the payroll tax cap covers only half of the long-term funding shortage and involves massive middle-class tax hikes, making such a proposal politically and economically challenging. Specifically, eliminating the cap means that the highest federal government marginal labor income tax rate exceeds 50%, with the average highest state, local and federal tax rates of nearly 60 people. Importantly, eliminating the cap creates a temporary surplus and allows revell to be spent elsewhere, so that Congress is not trapped in order to pay the benefits of future programs. As past experience suggests, the ASSE surplus is still credited to the program’s trust fund, and the Treasury will have to pay back what Congress had spent later.
I used to think that Europeans lived in the same way as America. There’s no more [sic]
July 20, 2025, by Tyler Cowen, Free Press.
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The European government is doing a lot to do Discoinjo, whether it’s a central AC unit or a window unit. Installing an AC unit may require difficult permission and medical needs must be demonstrated in Geneva. Or, in many parts of Europe, aviation treaties may be in Portofino, Italy, and neighbors are known to face each other by having illegal air conditioning units. The ends range up to 43,000 euros, but most cases settle out of court considering the unit.
In the UK, good luck with your bill, as the cost of energy can double it in the US, even if you could regulate this. By refusing to build nuclear and wind power and moving away from coal, Britain did not take away affordable energy.
and:
We have many measures that Mississippi, the poorest in the United States, has more than many Western European countries, and are almost inclined to Germany. These numbers do not capture all the features of quality of life, including leisure, but it is difficult for Europeans to see the good news.
Crime rates have worsened in America, but they’ve fallen considerably. In New York City, for example, today’s homicide rates are about a sixth of the peak of the 1990s.
And the strange mismatch note:
Looking at how many American tourists milling in Southern France and Amsterdam, I suffer, but that also removed 40 years in August.
He does not explain why he is suffering.
Greg Lukianoff, The Eternality Radical Idea, July 22, 2025.
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These laws have already been passed in states like Texas and Colorado, but require developers to surge their models to avoid producing “discriminatory” output. And of course, on the surface, this sounds like a noble effort. After all, who wants discrimination? However, the problem is that, for example, discriminatory behavior of invitations that it is necessary to condemn the approval of a loan, discriminatory knowledge is a legitimate foreign idea. In fact, it should surprise us.
One point that Adam and I say in our national review article is that rather than seeking the arrest of Clanman, who engages in hateful crimes, these regulations require me to burn down libraries where I envision his hateful ideas. Not only does he care about you, but the library is full of other knowledge that is limited for everyone else.
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