Biden’s Poor Debate Performance Eclipsed Trump’s Flagrant Dishonesty
President Joe Biden's efficiency in his June 27 debate with Donald Trump was so dangerous that it in the end resulted in his withdrawal from the election. It was additionally so dangerous that it distracted consideration from his opponent's flagrant prevarications. However Trump's longstanding tendency to make stuff up, to the purpose that it's important to low cost virtually something he says by at the least 90 %, shouldn't be…
Have Republicans Abandoned Free Markets?
After the primary night time of the Republican Nationwide Conference, when Teamsters President Sean O'Brien illustrated that the Republican Get together could also be morphing into the social gathering of unionized working-class People, Motive requested conference attendees whether or not they believed that the Republican social gathering had given up on free markets. Watch now to listen to what they needed to say! Picture credit: Rod Lamkey—CNP/Newscom; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Name/Newscom;…
J.D. Vance Thinks FTC Chair Lina Khan Is Doing a ‘Pretty Good Job’
With former President Donald Trump's decide of Ohio Rep. J.D. Vance as his 2024 working mate, we're possible darkish days on the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC). Below President Joe Biden, the FTC—headed by Lina Khan—has aggressively pursued an anti-innovation, anti-tech, anti-big enterprise, and anti-consumer agenda. Khan and her allies within the Biden administration assume the buyer welfare commonplace that has guided antitrust legislation for many years must go. Fairly than…
Trump Promises To Get Rid of Bad Regulations. Can He Deliver?
This week, former President Donald Trump will formally turn out to be the Republican nominee. Quickly he's more likely to once more be president, based on essentially the most correct predictions, which come from individuals who put their cash the place their mouths are—individuals who bet. They at the moment give Trump a 67 % likelihood of successful. President Joe Biden's probabilities have fallen under 20 %. That is excellent…
We Showed Trump Voters the National Debt
America's nationwide debt is uncontrolled. Greater than $8.1 trillion was added to the gross federal debt below the Trump administration, in response to U.S. Treasury Division estimates. (The Congressional Price range Workplace, which makes use of debt held by the general public and excludes debt owed to authorities companies, estimates that Trump signed laws including $7.8 trillion in publicly held debt over the following ten years.) Purpose's Zach Weissmueller requested…
Government Should Do More, Spend More, and Meddle More
Presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered the longest acceptance speech in current historical past on Thursday evening on the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC). However nowhere in that 90-minute address did Trump discover time to name for eliminating or abolishing a single, particular authorities program. He talked about elevating tariffs and chopping taxes, aired grievances and attacked immigrants, however gave no thought to shrinking the dimensions or scope of presidency. If Trump…
The DOOBIE Act Would Limit Government Discrimination Against Past Weed Users
There's maybe good purpose to be skeptical of laws that comes packaged in a campy acronym. I'm prepared to make an exception at this time. Sen. Gary Peters (D–Mich.) final week launched a invoice to ban the federal authorities from deeming a person ineligible for employment or for a safety clearance based mostly solely on previous marijuana use. The legislation is called the Dismantling Outdated Obstacles and Obstacles to Particular…
Biden and Trump Are Pushing the Same Failed Trade Policies
In a letter to Home Democrats urging their help for his re-election, President Joe Biden slammed Donald Trump's latest name for a 10-percent across-the-board tariff on imported merchandise, complaining that it's going to enhance family prices on the typical American by $2,500 a 12 months. He is onto one thing. Tariffs, that are levies imposed on international merchandise usually as a method to prop up home producers, are only a fancy time period…
J.D. Vance Turned an Inspiring Personal Story Into a Political Sales Pitch
Within the pages of his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio) makes use of his life story as a mannequin for a way the youngsters of down-on-their-luck Individuals from exterior the nation's political and cultural energy facilities can discover success. It's, sincerely, a compelling private story. One which Vance retold in vivid element to cap the third night time of the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) in Milwaukee. He received…
Here’s How To Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts
Whereas the GOP could not converse as loudly about our fiscal state of affairs because it as soon as did, this week's Republican conference gives an excellent probability to take action—and to supply one thing constructive. The state of affairs is certainly dire. The nationwide debt has reached staggering ranges, and the subsequent president will inherit a ticking time bomb of fiscal deadlines that would considerably worsen the burden. The…
