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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2023

I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of "from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs." That's socialism. It's written in the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.
 
T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue
U.S. News & World Report [1956]

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August 25, 2023
The Meaningless, Destructive Minimum Wage
The New York Times has just published an article on the minimum wage that is a major embarrassment to liberals/progressives. Mind you, that was clearly not the Times’ intent, but that is certainly the effect of the article.  The article states that the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has largely become meaningless. That’s because “even most teenagers are ...
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