California’s bid to rein in gig-workers has created turmoil in the state’s economy. Erica Sandberg notes at City Journal that “Musicians can’t join bands for a one-night gig, chefs can’t join forces with caterers, nurses can’t work at various hospitals, and writers must cap their submissions per media outlet to 35 per year.” This sort […]
SECURE Act Passed by Congress on the Way Out the Door
You’ve read about the SECURE Act and the hidden taxes targeting your family that it contains. Now, while everyone is busy Christmas shopping, and just as Congress is about to leave town, the bill was smuggled into a spending bill, and pushed through the legislature. According to Barron’s the bill “means a spate of changes […]
Relocate 10 Cabinet Departments Out of D.C.
There are nearly 3,500 trades or firms with dedicated lobbying operations in Washington, D.C., reports Roger Kimball in American Greatness. And that number does not include union headquarters in D.C. (T)hey’re all there, hands out, telephones working overtime to get a little bigger slice of the government pie, made with 100 percent locally sourced materials, namely […]
California’s Government Makes Living Hard
“It makes life hard.” Those are the words of a California delivery driver discussing the high cost of living in the state. He continued, telling The Wall Street Journal’s Amrith Ramkumar “You can’t go out and do the things you want to do.” Gasoline prices, for instance, are nearly always highest, or near the highest, […]
Department of Justice and FTC to Go After Tech Giants
At The American Conservative, Peter Van Buren decries the censorship by the big media companies. Van Buren explains “deplatforming” and how such corporate censorship may be illegal under monopoly conditions. He writes (abridged): Donald Trump is preparing to unleash the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as antitrust warriors against the tech giants. And good on him. […]
Senior Official: Rural Communities Will Disappear
Can America’s rural communities be saved? With the nation’s farming industry becoming ever more concentrated in the hands of a few big corporations, the bulwark of farmers that has kept America’s rural communities viable is eroding. Debbie and I saw the sad devastation being wreaked on America’s farms first hand in Vermont. Without action, Vermont’s […]
A Victory for Consumers
Last year’s repeal of the Obama administration’s regulation resulted in a lot of intense reaction, with cries that it would break the Internet. Not so, points out James Freeman in the WSJ. The irrational fear was that service would be so “throttled’ and slowed by deregulation that the Internet would never be the same. A […]
California More Like a Banana Republic?
The French are not the only nation to have doubts about the wisdom of its government. Brexit at its core is about the Brits doubting that Brussels know best. Even the U.S. has its own version, William McGurn reminds readers in the WSJ. War on Poverty and the Devastation of the Black Family Until recently […]
Steel Being Made Today in Cleveland and Lorain, Ohio
Steel workers cheer President Trump and foreign steel tariffs. As this astute article by William S. Lind in The American Conservative correctly concludes, political BS and economic ignorance not withstanding, “we industrialized this country under tariff protection and we can re-industrialize under tariff protection.” Read below: Today, as you drive over the new Innerbelt bridge […]
Is There a Greater Threat to Liberty than Big Government?
Writing at The American Conservative, Bill Nitze (not a conservative), urges conservatives to join his battle against big tech companies, which he describes as “a greater threat to individual liberty and autonomy than the one posed by big government.” He writes: Editor’s Note: Bill Nitze, though a friend of TAC, is no conservative. Here, the […]