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  • Is COVID-19 Relief Encouraging People Not to Work? Dems Say, ‘No Evidence.’

    Is COVID-19 Relief Encouraging People Not to Work? Dems Say, ‘No Evidence.’0

    “Experts” predicted 1 million jobs would be created in April. The actual number fell far short, at 266,000. Republicans warned that overly generous COVID-19 relief benefits create a disincentive to work. The day before this disappointing jobs report, Bloomberg wrote: In earnings calls and business surveys, executives often blame stimulus checks and generous unemployment benefits

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  • Down the Tubes: The Tax Man Cometh

    Down the Tubes: The Tax Man Cometh0

    Last week I filed my federal and state taxes. The tax preparation service I use here, mostly for backup purposes in case of an audit, informed me by phone that the forms were ready for my signature and that I would owe the federal government just over $1,000. Expecting to pay much more than that,

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  • The Stimulus Reckoning Ahead

    The Stimulus Reckoning Ahead0

    I am an ignorant man and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Ask me about history, literature, or current events, and you’ll find me more knowledgeable than some. Ask me about astronomy, auto repair, or computer maintenance, and I’ll just shrug. Ask me to name one or more gender-friendly pronouns or explain the definition of

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  • The Case Against Reparations: Part 2

    The Case Against Reparations: Part 20

    With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard’s director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90 percent of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All

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  • The GameStop Saga Unravels Stakeholder Theory

    The GameStop Saga Unravels Stakeholder Theory0

    The GameStop saga shows some “equity” movements are more equal than others. Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of “equity” in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different treatment of individuals and different distribution of resources based on need, identity, and historical injustices. But now

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  • A Lesson in Power

    A Lesson in Power0

    The unifying strand in conservatism as a movement and the GOP as a political operation is a superficial desire to limit and eschew power. This position is sloganized in exhortations against “big government,” against “socialism,” against the noxious fumes of power. But movement conservatives, like their political counterparts, are quite all right with both the

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