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Wondering why we’re paying more at the pump?
Transportation companies faced a truck driver shortage even before the pandemic. But the excessive government aid is making it even harder for companies to find tanker truck drivers, and it is slowing the transport of fuel around the country.
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The Biden administration and liberals in Congress have staked out a strategy of skyrocketing federal spending to stimulate the economy, in part, by flooding households with cash.
It is no surprise that workers are opting out of the workforce. In the aggregate, these decisions are creating a drag on the economy at the worst time.
Half of all states are ending the federal unemployment bonus. It’s time to slow the flow of cash and for Washington to reign in spending.