Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
John Yoo takes command of host duties this week, as Steve was on the road at an academic conference at City University of New York, where a knowledgeable faculty member remarked that he was surprised Steve didn’t need an armed guard. The conference was largely devoted to the intellectual history of the liberal tradition, and was designed perfectly to induce a scornful snort from Lucretia who disdains all such flim-flummery. The bonus was that Steve apparenlty brought an earthquake with him, and we’re not referring to his conference paper!
Aside from these unexpected things, there were fresh tremors for Trump’s legal problems, Biden’s long-expected turn against Israel that was designed to appear to a constituency of one (hint: the person insists on being called DOKTOR), fresh encomiums for Mitch McConnell (okay—it was not unanimous), and finally into some tremors for the income tax.
As Stan Evans liked to say, “Any country that can land a man on the moon can abolish the income tax,” and now a member of the House has proposed repealing the 16th Amendment. Especially salient in light of the pending Supreme Court case that might allow the government to tax unrealized asset gains (a back-door wealth tax), which will guarantee that the government will adopt a de facto policy of 10 percent inflation forever.
Subscribe to Power Line in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.
If Steve’s going to vote by mail , he’ll be voting Biden regardless of his wishes.
I totally wonder about that.
In 2020, the person that helped me with my ballot totally looked at it when I slid it in the machine.
We should let Finland take over our election security.
I think a great title for a blog/regular column/podcast would be “Lucretia’s Alley”!
One of the problems with DEI (among many) is that naive liberals (as opposed to vile left-wing activists) don’t know what it actually is and how deeply ingrained it is. “Oh, efforts to increase diversity? Who could oppose that?” They don’t realize how pervasive and utterly destructive it is. The NYT/NPR/NBC won’t tell them.
I think Lucretia owes John a bottle of Kirkland whiskey for that lowest of blows: “Your side…” Hilarious!
If you don’t repeal the 17th amendment along with the 16th, Congress will just pass the spending down to the state and local governments.
If we want to control the cost of higher education, one of the first things that needs to happen is preventing colleges and universities to use students’ FAFSA forms for any purpose other than awarding Pell grants. The FAFSA form provides all the information necessary to build price discrimination models that allow the captains of erudition to charge a different rate for every student based on their ability to pay.
Centralized power is worthless. It never works. Don’t use it unless you don’t have any other option like the military.
I met a guy that did that for two colleges. he sat in his home office and ran programs to tell them what to offer the students he was analyzing.
The BEST Babylon Bee was the Vatican canonizing Ms. Clark from IOWA for the miracle of making women’s basketball watchable!
People can move. And the states can’t print money.
Congress wouldn’t cut programs, but they would make the states pick up the costs. The unfunded federal mandate goes on steroids. And with the inability to print money, we get to cover the full cost of the federal largesse.
When the state legislatures elected the Senate, this didn’t happen. There was a reason the Progressives pushed the 17th.