To elect means “to choose or make a decision”, and so sometimes other forms of ballot such as referendums are referred to as elections, especially in the United States.
Taxpayers lost nearly $200 billion to fraud that was meant for struggling small businesses, according to a new Inspector General report on the Small Business Administration’s COVID-era pandemic relief programs. This is a staggering amount of money for our government to lose to corruption, $1,673 for every individual who filed a tax return in 2022....
We applaud the recent debt ceiling resolution which came out of the negotiations between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy. We avoided default on our debt. But this is not a complete solution and will necessitate more work on reducing the annual deficit after the 2024 election. An economic recession is still a real possibility because...
The Administration is telling us to brace for chaos at the border. They could have prevented this but chose not to. Migrant encounters could rise to 10,000 a day or more. Border detention centers are already beyond capacity. These migrants are coming here because their countries are over-populated which destroys their economic prospects. Our cities...
A proposed change in the Colorado land use code is itself undergoing change to stop the land grab by the state. SB23-213 is being changed to stop the state level takeover and keep most control local. Having the state mandate higher density housing in cities that don’t want it would be a severe over-reach. I...
This article in Vox by Alex Yablon makes some good points on understanding inflation and its history,“The messy true story of the last time we beat inflation“. I agree with Mr. Yablon’s statement: ” inflation moderated when globalization increased imports and labor competition, not because investors had “anchored expectations” about central bank policy”, and ”...
