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2) Why Are Young Women Now SO Super-Liberal?
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A new analysis in Financial Times reveals that young women between the ages of 18-29 are far more liberal than their male counterparts. The gender gap among the young has never been wider.
The chart below shows that 18 to 29-year-old women today are a gigantic 40 percentage points more likely to describe themselves as liberal than are men of the same age. In other words, if, say, 65% of young men say that are conservative, only 25% of young women do. Finding a conservative young woman these days is like winning the Power Ball.
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We’re not sure why this is happening and would love any explanations you readers can provide. But here’s one contributing factor: women are more likely to attend college than men these days. And we know that though colleges are exceptionally talented at indoctrinating students with a leftist ideology. It’s apparently working.
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3) "Tax Cut Fever” – 14 States Have Cut Tax Rates for 2024
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While things look bleak in Washington on the policy front, pro-growth policies are winning the day in the states. Income tax rates fell at the beginning of the year in 14 states. It’s mostly a red-state phenomenon, but even two blue states, Colorado and Connecticut are cutting taxes. Jonathan Williams, the Chief Economist and Executive Vice President of Policy at ALEC, says there is more momentum for lower tax rates and simple flat taxes, than at any time in recent history.
Here’s a summary of the changes that have been adopted for this year. Notice that the states are lowering RATES, which is the best way to cut taxes:
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The map below shows that most of the cuts are happening in the southern states.
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4) The Biden Administration’s Mindless War on Natural Gas
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We’ve said many times on these pages that natural gas is a wonder fuel. It’s abundant; it’s made in America; it’s reliable; it’s safe; it’s cheap; AND it is CLEAN burning. You don’t have to believe us, here is what the Energy Information Agency tells us:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/
“Burning natural gas for energy results in fewer emissions of nearly all types of air pollutants and carbon dioxide (CO2) than burning coal or petroleum products to produce an equal amount of energy. About 117 pounds of CO2 are produced per million British thermal units (MMBtu) equivalent of natural gas.”
Methane is an emission from natural gas, but methane doesn’t cause people to get sick, as does lead, sulfur, smog, and carbon monoxide – which are reduced by natural gas.
Biden’s green goons don’t care. They’ve put a hold on LNG projects because the President says that “climate change is the existential threat of our time.” He also says that exporting the LNG raises prices here at home. This is a fallacy because if we were simply to drill for more natural gas (and build the pipelines necessary), we could reduce energy costs here at home AND increase our exports.
Even the Biden Energy Department admits that we have more retrievable natural gas than at any time ever – thanks to the shale revolution. The chart below shows that the Malthusians who said in the 1970s and 1980s that we were “running out of energy” were fabulously wrong, and that, as Julian Simon taught us, energy is becoming more abundant not scarcer. All we have to do is USE it.
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As we enter the frigid month of February, just remember this stat from our friend Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Energy in Oklahoma City: “Just one shipment of natural gas heats one million homes for a month.” Can windmills do that?
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5) New Jersey’s Ban on Plastic Bags Tripled Plastic Consumption
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Speaking of idiotic “green” policies, New Jersey was going to save the planet when it banned regular plastic bags about a decade ago. Under the policy, shoppers would have to use thicker plastic bags, which were supposedly to be reusable. But most people tossed them away anyway. So the policy led to more plastic use, wasted money, and hurt the environment. Money wasted. A perfect Democratic policy trifecta. It’s called the law of unintended consequences.
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6) Now Can They Make Him Disappear?
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