1) Climate Change Is Causing More Home Runs in Baseball – No Really, It Is
This is not, we repeat, NOT a parody.
One of our readers submitted this item on climate change derangement – and we agree that it is a must-read.
This study is going viral on social media and was authored by FOUR scholars from Dartmouth College – which last time we checked was considered an Ivy League school.
The study titled "Global Warming, Home Runs, and the Future of America’s Pastime" concludes that climate change caused about 500 more home runs over the years 2010-19. But the authors concede that “other factors" are more responsible AS OF NOW than global warming. You see, global warming is causing a “reduction in ballpark air density.”
If the planet keeps warming, the balls will sail out of the park much faster than they did during the steroid era. Every team will have two or three Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa.
It took a professor of ecology, a professor of geography, a professor of anthropology, and a professor of earth science to bring their great minds together and collaborate on this pathbreaking study.
Do we need any more evidence that college professors have way, way too much time on their hands?
Aaron Judge clobbers his 62nd home run –
but could he have done it in the pre-global warming era?
2) Seattle—Once a High Tech Mecca—Wants Its Own Capital Gains Tax
Two weeks ago we reported that Washington State – home to Microsoft, Amazon, and dozens of other major tech companies – will impose its first-ever capital gains tax of 7% on annual gains of more than $250,000. The State Supreme Court twisted the plain logic of Washington State's constitution – which clearly prohibits any income tax – and green-lighted the state legislature tax scheme.
So the dam has been broken and woke Seattle now wants to have an add-on city capital gains tax. Across the country, businesses and people are fleeing blue cities and states and escaping to freer red states. Apparently Seattle, Washington wants to catch up to New York and California.
No word yet on what gazillionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are planning to do.
3) More Homelessness Government Spending Means More Homeless People
Seattle may soon lose its rich, but the homeless are still flocking to the city.
The city has spent nearly $1 billion on free shelters (with no work requirements) and the homeless from all over the country just keep coming. Seattle’s homeless population has soared by 33% over the past decade. We just keep learning these elementary economics lessons over and over. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.
How many times in a week do you hear the media and the Democrats blaming gargantuan deficits on Trump’s tax cut for the rich? Biden repeated the lie again just last week.
Yes, tax rates fell – thanks in no small part to Laffer, Kudlow, and the whole CTUP team – but tax collections soared.
How much do you want to bet that these iron-clad facts will have NO impact on the left’s fact-free, soak-the-rich rhetoric and calls to “repeal the Trump tax cuts?”
