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Issue #1366
10/08/2025
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1) Obamacare's Collapse

If anything good has come out of the budget shutdown, it is the revelation that Obamacare is, was, and always will be a financial sham. That's ironic because Obama and his supporters say the health law was his "greatest achievement."

The Affordable Care Act was supposed to expand health coverage and lower costs.

Here is the trend of American health care spending before and after Obamacare. So you be the judge. Is it more "affordable?"
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Now we are told by Chuck Schumer and his shutdown associates that if those heartless conservatives won't pour hundreds of billions more into Obamacare taxpayer subsidies, millions more Americans will lose health insurance and costs will soar again.

Meanwhile, NPR just reported ([link removed]) : "The average enrollee will see their premium costs increase 75%, according to an analysis of insurance filings by the nonpartisan health research organization KFF. For many people, those increases will be even higher."

They mean taxpayers will pick up "only" 80% of the tab instead of 93% if Obamacare's "temporary" supersized subsidies from the COVID emergency aren't extended to Americans who make up $500,000 a year!
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Obamacare was always a classic bait and switch: provide government-subsidized health care, then when the costs explode, demand even more subsidies and let the vicious cycle keep repeating. Obamacare was always a racket and the Left knew it all along.

Now we all do.

Here’s a good chart from EPIC showing how the scam works:
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2) The Gold Boom Is Historic

This year's increase would be the largest annual increase since 1979 - when inflation was raging, Iran seized American hostages, and there were literal gas lines.
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Notice that in the boom years of high growth and stable prices under Reagan and Clinton the gold price was falling.
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3) Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Proposes 39 Tax Hikes

Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago has found a solution for the city's $1.15 billion deficit: taxpayers and businesses "have to put more skin in the game." His task has named 39 possible tax and fee increases. That strategy would only lead to a flight of tax revenue and accelerate the Second City's decline.
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Luckily, voters don't seem to be impressed with Johnson's scheme. His approval rating is 26% and voters seem to get that Johnson is ignoring the city's spending addiction. The city's budget is up a whopping 62% from 2019 and rising over twice as fast as other major cities.

That explains why city voters rejected raising fees on the sale of high price homes and a ballot measure to shift the state from a flat to a graduated income tax failed. The City Council also unanimously rejected the Mayor's plan to raise property taxes by $300 million.

The menu for new taxes includes: congestion surcharges on rideshare services, garbage collection and retail delivery fee hikes, permit fees on signage, driveways (!), and sidewalk cafes. The city sales tax could be expanded to include services.

What is revealing for a mayor who claims to represent people of modest incomes is how many of his task force's ideas hit them the hardest. As the Illinois Policy Center notes:

"Chicago already has a reputation for predatory fines, from vehicle sticker tickets to late fees, that disproportionately impact low-income households. Research has documented how these policies can push families into bankruptcy."

Just another reminder that there’s no progress in progressivism and that one by one our great cities are being destroyed from within.
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4) Net Zero Energy Policy Is a Bust In Britain

One of the reasons Britain's Conservative Party was thrown out of office last year was that it forced through a law to reach Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. That pushed energy prices up and domestic energy production fell by 25% or more.

Now, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson says in a new Laffer book called Prosperity Through Growth: "I think net zero, we went far too fast. I got carried away by the idea that sustainable and renewable forms of energy could fill the gap."
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The book also quotes Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour Party prime minister, as saying net zero is "doomed to fail" in its current form. He said voters are "being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know the impact on global emissions is minimal."

Now they tell us.

This week, the current Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told her party's conference the Climate Change Act would be abolished if elected Prime Minister.

The irony is that Britain still has massive oil and gas reserves in the North Sea. How can the country be running out of energy?
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5) New York "Dairy Queen Sisters" Shaken Down by Trial Lawyers

CBS has reported the litigation abuse story of the day. This one from Long Island, where sisters Patty DeMint and Michelle Robey achieved the American Dream, by running their own Dairy Queen restaurant . But now, they’ve been sued by trial lawyers who discovered that an old New York law nobody remembered was still on the books, requiring hourly employees to be paid weekly. The sisters were paying every two weeks.

"Of the $450,000 settlement, $305,000 goes to lawyers and fees," CBS reports. That's 68%!

The good news is New York fixed their law and going forward, an employer that doesn't know about the goofy weekly pay law (why didn't they just repeal it) will only be responsible for paying back interest. That's cold comfort to the Dairy Queen Sisters, though.
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6) Nothing Like a Paid Vacation

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