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Unleash Prosperity Hotline Issue #1507
05/06/2026
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1) Do Data Centers Increase Your Taxes? No!

Lately everyone - including voters on the left and right - hates data centers. The consensus seems to be "not in my backyard." We even hear people say data centers cause cancer.

But data centers can and should be seen more accurately as assets and job centers. The tech industry does a lousy job explaining this to homeowners.

We looked at Loudoun County, Virginia, which is outside of Washington, DC. The largest concentration of data centers in the country and one of the first. As a result of all the property taxes paid by the data centers, taxes have gone down for everyone else.

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"Over the past ten years, the Board of Supervisors has lowered the real property tax rate every year -- from $1.145 in tax year 2016 to $0.805 cents per $100 in assessed value for tax year 2025."
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Data centers are assessed $600 per square foot - or triple the tax rate that other businesses pay.

For every dollar they receive in government services, they generate more than $26 in taxes. Data centers don't use schools or hospitals or libraries or attend 4th of July celebrations - but they pay for them.
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2) Europe Wants to Soak the Rich - Those Who Still Live There

A new EU report on taxation in Europe tries to tackle the issue of making the tax system "fairer." The report laments that: a) Europe is losing its share of millionaires and billionaires and b) despite high taxes rates, the rich in Europe don't pay enough taxes so Europe needs "heavier reliance on wealth taxation."

Here are some of the proposals:

* a higher tax on realized capital gains
* a new tax on unrealized capital gains, i.e., the increase in the value of stocks you didn't sell
* an annual tax on wealth holdings
* a tax on gifts and inheritance
* an exit tax on the wealthy who try to leave

What's almost comical is the study laments that the rich are leaving even though these nations already have some of the highest income tax rates. Yet they still conclude that new wealth taxes will "have minimal negative impact." Right.

They can't seem to connect the dots that the EuroZone's high tax rates are a major reason that the poor are getting poorer, the middle class is stagnant, and the rich have escaped to America, Dubai or the Cayman Islands.

Our friend Sven Larson does a great job of calling out all this Euro-gibberish.
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3) But Nobody Hates the Rich More Than This Guy

The devastating fire that leveled the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles was started by an alleged arsonist who was inspired by the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson to "take down the billionaires" by torching their homes, according to prosecutors.

The New York Post reports:

The deranged firebug accused of igniting the devastating Palisades Fire had become "fixated" on Luigi Mangione in the lead-up to the deadly blaze -- and then allegedly suggested the inferno was started out of "resentment of the rich," prosecutors said.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, was obsessed with the accused health care CEO killer and had routinely searched "free Luigi Mangione" and "lets take down all the billionaires" online, court documents show.
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If this isn't enough to get the Left to recalibrate their rhetoric, we're not sure what would do it.
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4) Will Connecticut Declare War on Home Schoolers?

Teachers union officials are so insecure they are losing clout (and money) they are now trying to limit the rights of four million homeschooling parents.

Homeschooling only became legal in all 50 states in 1993, but since then, there have been few regulatory restrictions. Home schooled students consistently perform better than public school students - which is a profound embarrassment to the professional educators.

This may explain why Connecticut's Democratic legislature has passed a law to regulate and restrict homeschooling.
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The bill subjects every homeschooling family to a background check just to exercise a basic parental right. Opponents say it creates conditions where an outdated allegation against a parent can carry the same weight as a conviction.

Every Republican in both chambers voted against the bill, along with three brave Democrats in the Senate and four in the House. If Governor Lamont vetoes the bill, Democrats don't have enough votes to override him in either chamber.
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5) Peter Ferrara, RIP

Peter Ferrara died yesterday at 71. He was a longtime libertarian/conservative scholar best known as the brilliant godfather of real entitlement reform. His first proposal for Social Security privatization was written as his Harvard Law thesis before being adapted into a Cato book in 1980. He later served in the Reagan and Bush administrations.

Peter was a frequent collaborator with your HOTLINE editors on free-market issues including entitlement spending, welfare dependency, and regulatory overreach. Peter was also one of the original architects (along with John Goodman) of medical savings accounts, now known as HSAs. He was a fierce defender of fossil fuels and skeptic of man-made climate change, and he never wavered in his commitment to limited government.

If Ferrara's Social Security plan had been adopted back in the late 1980s or 90s the average Baby Boom retiree would be receiving benefits three to four times higher than the rip off that Social Security pays.

Peter's plan would also be the largest tax cut, spending cut, and debt reduction plan in American history. In 2003 it was scored by the chief actuary of Social Security ([link removed]) as achieving full solvency without tax increases or benefit cuts.

We keep hearing about "entitlement reform," but Ferrara's plan is by far the one that matters most. Our goal is to keep his dream of creating real wealth for workers alive.
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6) EL CIRCO LOCO - Trump in Cuba

Very clever video if you have time to watch it!
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