If this was about people taking advantage of Medicaid, Unemployment, or other government programs, there might be a reason to do what Congress is doing. Instead, elected Republican Senators and Representatives are moving in mass to cut programs so as to maintain Trump’s 2017 TCJA tax breaks which was passed under reconciliation. The tax break […]
This is the latest article discussing US automotive manufacturing I could find right now. If I could find my old charts I would use to plan components, I could offer more up-to-date information. However, the US automotive industry builds millions of cars each year and accounted for 2.8% of all nonfarm jobs in the US […]
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the Birthright Citizenship Case, Trump v. Casa, Inc. May 15, 2025. Some history and argument . . . The arguments are not new. The willingness of an Administration to act on them are Jonathan H. Adler During the first Trump Administration, some of the President’s supporters urged him to […]
I do not believe there is any policy which will be successful when the environment changes like the direction of the wind due to kneejerk reactions of the presidency. Inflation did decrease by one tenth of one percent. But then is 2.3 or 2.4% really high? What has had a greater impact on the economy […]
Maybe there is another way the pharmaceutical industry can be forced to lower pricing. They are ignoring both the president and the HHS secretary orders to lower pricing. The industry as it is . . . is untouchable and impervious to the same threats as what individuals and states (see earlier posts) are facing. In […]
“Something strange, and potentially alarming, is happening to the job market for young, educated workers,” The Atlantic According to the New York Federal Reserve, labor conditions for recent college graduates have “deteriorated noticeably” in the past few months, and the unemployment rate now stands at an unusually high 5.8 percent. Even newly minted M.B.A.s from elite programs […]
This does not surprise me. States attempting to attract business which will be in the right industry or the industry of the future. I am sure there will be more occurrences as politicians and states attempt to get ahead of the curve by attracting the right industry. Fortunately and in AZ, we have TSMC building […]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) re-introduced a bicameral bill, “The Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act.” The aim of the bill is to require taxpayers with yearly incomes of more than $400,000 to contribute a fairer share of their income to the two programs. This is the opposite of what […]
Some select facts about the Treasury Department Functions. This includes the size of it, currency, national banks, costs of tax collection, budget, etc. The latter of which make the Treasury the third largest department fund wise. Some interesting graphs depicting functions. What does the Department of the Treasury do? USAFacts Last month, a federal judge […]
In a recent video podcast of The Jim Acosta Show, former news anchor and White House correspondent Jim Acosta catches up with Representative (Republican) outside of Capitol Hill. The reasons he was pursuing Representatives? To ask why they focused on the name-change bill, changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, and whether they were […]