The Department of Government Efficiency, “DOGE,” is ostensibly in charge of increasing the efficiency of the departments it audits. What it is actually doing is crippling or eliminating those agencies—the VA, FAA, DoE, USAID, National Parks Service, Post Office, FEMA, etc. for the purpose of monetizing their assets and privatizing their services.…
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The net result is that the top 2 percent of tax payers will get lower taxes, and the other 98 percent will pay more in Trump Tariff Taxes for a reduction in government services, Medicare, Social Security benefits, etc.…
I bought a farm in Ukraine with a group of Texas investors. Amber waves of grain. It seemed like a good idea at the time.…
In all of the Southwest and much of the South, all manual skill-intensive industries have relied on undocumented workers. The plurality, and in some cases, the majority of employees at some businesses, particularly food processing, seasonal farm labor...…
Trump’s 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods will not bring jobs back to the U.S. But they will raise prices at Dollar General to Dollar And A Dime General. If dimes still exist. In order for U.S. products to replace Chinese products, the tariff would result in Two Dollars And Fifty Cents General.…
Like most herd animals, we are oblivious to the suffering of others until it gets close to us. Not until when we, our family, or friends are threatened, do we react.…
Unlike a progressive income tax, the Trump Tariff Tax is regressive, meaning the less you make, the more its impact on your wallet. It is an excessive tax burden on the poor and the lower middle class.…
Exhibit A is, of course, UnitedHealthcare, who, like other private insurance companies, makes money as a toll booth between patient and physician—by aggressively selling relatively inexpensive policies, then works overtime to deny or delay the payment of claims—despite the best efforts and advocacy of healthcare providers, such as the good people at Bassett.…
Scrapping the project would be ill advised—both from the standpoint of precedence and the abandonment of the clear public benefit in having a dock. The village is building the dock for the anonymous person in the wheel chair, for the unknown child with a fishing pole, the boater dropping off a passenger, the anxious bride and her wedding photographer.…
Regarding the complaints made by the neighbors: You live next to a very popular public park—with picnic tables, trash receptacles, park benches, an award-winning landscape buffer by the lake, walkways, a bandstand, all with a spectacular public view of a gorgeous lake.…