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In a speech in Pittsburgh, President Joe Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, consisting of traditional projects such as roads and bridges as well as funding to combat climate change and money for the care economy, a service industry. What will pay for it all? Corporate tax increases. “Today, I’m proposing a plan for […]

News Analysis The April 1 increase in the federal carbon tax to $40 per tonne highlights the high cost of the federal pricing scheme compared with the cost to Quebecers under their provincial cap-and-trade policy, whose current carbon price is roughly half that amount. Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary, said

A 6-month old baby is rescued from the Rio Grande river after it was thrown off a raft by human smugglers. Reports from Michigan, New Jersey, and New York City say CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases are on the rise. And Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) is urging companies not to buy personal protective equipment

Orange County opened its latest super point of dispensing (POD) COVID-19 vaccine site in Costa Mesa March 31. The site’s opening, at the Orange County Fairgrounds, came the same day the region entered the less-restrictive orange tier. “I want to ask you all to encourage your friends, your neighbors, your loved ones who are hesitant on the vaccine to

MEXICO CITY—A 4-year-old Honduran boy was found traveling alone near the Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the United States with no one to claim him, the Mexican government said on Wednesday. Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said the boy was found unaccompanied among trees and thickets as he walked toward the border. He

How’s your health? Not your physical fitness, but your financial well-being. For most of us, how much we earn tells us how we’re “feeling” financially. But your income is only one part of the equation. How much of your income do you actually keep? Not very much, I’ll bet. Your income is low, you say;

Commentary There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently. 1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much. Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had

It’s opening day for Major League Baseball (MLB) April 1, but the rules of the game don’t just apply to players this year. Fans, too, must abide by a plethora of regulations in order to catch their favorite team in person during the ongoing pandemic. Stadium capacity in Orange County—currently in the orange tier—will be

Commentary There is a deep irony in President Joe Biden’s decision to start looking for support for his American Job Killing Tax Plan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And make no mistake: Biden’s so-called American Jobs Plan is a tax increase bill masquerading as an infrastructure bill—which is in turn masquerading as a jobs bill. It will

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) are beginning ad campaigns this week and early next week to have their say on the Democrats’ election reform bill S.1, which they are calling a “power grab.” The RNC has designated a six-figure sum to an ad campaign that will run in states