Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn
Two of America’s three richest men want their taxes increased. Or do they? “I think our system can be a lot more progressive (that is richer people paying a higher share),” Bill Gates wrote Monday on Reddit. “A key element…
Amazon does not pay the government taxes. The government pays Amazon taxes. Some residents of the chutzpah capital of the world predictably rebel against this arrangement. Just call them modern-day tax resisters. Hopefully, Jeff Bezos’s Internal Revenue Service audits them…
Donald Trump, weeks after presiding over the longest government shutdown in American history, boasts his highest approval ratings since his administration’s infancy. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after refusing to budge in negotiations with the president, sees a 75-12…
Howard Schultz, the chairman emeritus of Starbucks, ponders an independent presidential bid. Democrats dumped cold water, in a trenta-sized cup, on the idea. “Don’t Help Elect Trump, You Egotistical Billionaire F***” one heckler shouted at Schultz, while his online brethren…
Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields achieved their highest rate since 2011 last week. Though high by recent standards, 3.1 percent falls well below the postwar average. This present state—relatively low rates that nevertheless rise—affirms Shakespeare’s advice, “neither a borrower nor a…
A new report by the Department of Health and Human Services urges healthcare reform through more choice and competition. “Reforming America’s Healthcare Through Choice and Competition” cites the example of procedures paid for almost exclusively out of pocket by consumers,…
“Compromise has an incredibly small constituency,” retiring Representative Trey Gowdy reflected in a parting-thoughts interview with Fox News Channel’s Martha McCallum. He lamented a prevailing, partisan mindset that it only takes 51 percent to govern. Entering Congress by riding the…
Americans unite on identifying the major problem facing the nation but divide profoundly on the solution. We agree, and then we agree to disagree. Exit polling for the 2018 midterms found voters citing healthcare far more than any other issue,…
60 Minutes demonstrated the primary ailment of American healthcare on Sunday. “The actual drug naloxone can cost as little as a nickel a dose, according to industry insiders,” Lesley Stahl remarks about the drug that brings the opioid dead back…
