Plus: ‘Pay Your Fair Share’ Taxation Isn’t About Actual Fairness
September 23 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Democrats testifying at a Senate hearing hedge their bets on the “racism” of voter ID. Fred Lucas reports on their responses to Sen. Ted Cruz. You know President Biden is in hot water politically when he harps on tax fairness, Ben Shapiro writes. On the podcast, find out why even knitting isn’t safe from cancel culture. Plus: what’s wrong with drug price controls; China cracks down on pop culture; and “Problematic Women” examines the fascination with the Gabby Petito case. On this date in 1949, President Harry Truman informs the American people that the Soviets have exploded a nuclear bomb years earlier than expected.
President Biden attempts to inject life into his ailing presidency by dragging out of the closet the hoariest of political cliches: “fairness” in taxation.
For the most part, China’s top leaders through the years have held firm to the party’s Marxist ambitions, even while they enabled capitalism to flourish as a means to this end.
Many dreadful provisions are in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending bill, but a scheme to impose price controls on prescription drugs is especially destructive.