Thought for the day
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
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Trump’s proposed legislation (follow-on from yesterday)
Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. …
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Everlasting warfare
The US is now fighting in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Somalia. Yet “no vital American interest is at stake” in any of these places. In 1980, president Jimmy Carter declared that any challenge to American positions in the Persian Gulf would be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the US, but …
Millions of men now opt for idleness
A “quiet catastrophe” has befallen America, says George F. Will. Almost unnoticed, millions of American men have left the job market. A study has revealed the percentage of males of prime working age (25 to 54) in jobs today (84.4%) is smaller than it was as the Great Depression neared its end in 1940, …
Thought for the day
“Foresight – most people only get to three”. This seems to apply particularly to politicians at the present moment.