Clear
73.2 ° F
Full Weather | Burn Info
Sponsored By:

Something To Think About Archive

Sponsored by:

Something To Think About - 6/19/25

On average, the California Legislature passes between 1900 and 2600 bills every year. While only about half are signed into law, we have to ask: Are there that many things wrong requiring that many new laws every year? If so, maybe we should look at the source of the problem: Ineffective Government.

Something To Think About - 6/17/25

The insanity of zealots was made clear a few weeks ago when a gunman shot and killed two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum as a “protest” against the war in Gaza. The problem, is, one of the two victims was actually working to get aid to Palestinians affected by the war. We will never understand violence and discrimination, like this and that occurring on many Ivy League campuses, as a protest against, that’s right, violence and discrimination.

Something To Think About - 6/10/25

Given the current budget deficits and continued profligate spending, why does Congress’s latest tax bill include exclusions for certain income, specifically taxes on tips and overtime? ALL and ANY earned income should be taxable at the same level as any other. By not simply lowering rates to encourage work and investment, these exclusions fail to be pro-growth. Instead, they are likely to distort behavior by favoring one action over another. Excluding taxes on Social Security might be considered as reasonable as the money that was paid in to the program was originally confiscated from the employee and their employer. At least they’ve tried to eliminate some scams like tax credits for electric vehicles.

Something To Think About - 6/5/25

As Andrew Jackson once noted, “More is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience.”

Something To Think About - 6/3/25

According to tech entrepreneur and columnist Andy Kessler, when it comes to tariffs, “Self-interested politicians never hit on the right price to clear markets or pick the right industries to win. Because of self-serving cronyism for dollars or votes, government industrial policy always glitches. Capital gets misallocated. Prosperity suffers.”
Feedback