Life, Liberty, Property
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Life, Liberty, Property #159: Trump’s ‘Dividend’ Plan Could Work, With One Major Addition
The complaints have substance: the plan is unworkable in the form in which Trump presented it. It would increase the already terrifying national debt and probably spark much-higher inflation …
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Life, Liberty, Property #158: Rising Pushback Against the Surveillance State
Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers …
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Life, Liberty, Property #157: Data Center Hysteria and the Decay of America’s Political System
Public opposition to data centers has increased by 12 percentage points in just the past four months, with 61 percent now saying they oppose building new data centers …
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Life, Liberty, Property #156: The (Current) Limit on Democratic Socialists’ Political Appeal
Hong’s failure to get past the post in this Democrat primary illustrates a greater problem for the collectivist “democratic socialist” movement.
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Life, Liberty, Property #155: Hard Facts That Doom Every Proposed Social Security Fix
As the United States careens ever-faster toward the day when the Social Security trust fund will run out, now scheduled for 2032, press reports of reform proposals have been arriving with greater frequency and mounting expressions of fear.
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Life, Liberty, Property #154: The Nonpartisan Case for Punishing Government Program Fraud
The Trump administration has announced another step in its efforts to identify fraud in government programs and, of equal importance …
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Life, Liberty, Property #153: Positive Signs of an Economic Turnaround
Last week’s economic news suggests that the U.S. economy is reforming, moving in a long-term positive direction. The key factor is …
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Life, Liberty, Property #152: Immigration Driving Up Housing Costs
Mass immigration has contributed to the rapid increase in the price of housing, I noted in my Heartland Institute policy study on “Housing Affordability: America’s Short-Term Crisis and Long-Term Problem.” A draft working paper from the Federal Reserve confirms that conclusion, with the researchers stating illegal immigration drove 30 percent of the increase in home…
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Life, Liberty, Property #151: Can Warsh Lead Us Out of the Inflation Trap?
Markets are indicating strong optimism about the U.S. dollar. An article at Unleash Prosperity’s Hotline argues new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin “Warsh Is Slaying Inflation Already.”
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Life, Liberty, Property #150: Rhode Island Starts Tax Hike Death Spiral
Rhode Island just enacted a tax increase that will chase the highest-earning households out of the state and ensure revenue shortfalls as long as it remains in place.

