George Callas

David from @EPICforAmerica makes a critical point. There is no difference between a subsidy check from HHS/DOE/Commerce/Etc and a larger refund check from the IRS for the same government-favored purpose. GOP understands this intuitively re: green energy but it applies broadly.

Text from a friend: “Nice to see a French leader finally standing up to a Nazi..”

CA adopted Prop 13 in 1978, severely limiting property taxes as part of an antitax revolt. Since then, CA has grown into the most socialist state in the Union with the highest state income tax. I don’t think this new “Abolish Property Tax” movement has thought this through.

Weird that any conservative can look at this chart and conclude that, in the name of fairness, we need to cut taxes on Social Security benefits and exempt seniors from local property taxes. Those policies just accelerate a massive intergenerational wealth redistribution.

Just a reminder that the long term results of California voters passing prop 13 to limit property taxes were that CA became the biggest, most bloated state budget AND enacted the highest state income tax in the country. Confused about why antitax advocates want to emulate that.

Only about 15% of home sellers pay capital gains tax on the sale, and those are heavily concentrated in affluent Democratic districts that just got a SALT windfall.

I agree spending is out of control and is the vast majority of our deficit problem, but David is greatly understating the revenue gap by only reporting the 2034 figure. Turns out the 9 prior years show much LOWER revenue. Compared to David's 60-year historical average of 17.4%,…

I am not a defense expert, but unlike when I was growing up, school kids are not taught how to hide under their desks in case the nukes start flying.

Without Ed Feulner there would not have been a Heritage Foundation. And without the Heritage Foundation, I might not have become a conservative as a college student. During my formative years, Heritage work on tax reform, school choice, welfare reform, competition in the health…

Is there a way to mute any post that has a picture or video from a recent Coldplay concert?

Today, NPR finally loses its taxpayer funding. So, to celebrate here’s a collection of their far-left CEO’s greatest hits. Brace yourself.

Most ridiculous email from WAMU about the government funding cuts: “Federal funding for public media has been eliminated. WAMU now faces the loss of $1.5 million each year — about 4-5% of our budget. This is more than a financial setback. It’s an explicit threat to the…

Millennials are the proverbial rooster taking credit for the dawn. It was Gen X that set this transformation in motion. It was already happening by 2000.

This is an important step by the Trump Administration and will save taxpayers real money. Congress should follow the lead of @DrOzCMS and expand site-neutral reforms.

From a VC investor:

In which @RyanLEllis and I, during an impromptu back and forth about whether the @howardlutnick proposal to exempt families making < $150k from income tax would achieve significant simplification, might have stumbled upon the outline of a new comprehensive tax reform plan.

College admissions are unjust. Not just biased. Not just broken. Unjust. Students spend high school anxiously stacking their résumés with hollow activities, then collect generic recommendation letters and outsource their essays to tutors or AI. Admissions at elite colleges now…

This would be a mistake for the administration and make their goal of getting interest rates down without fueling inflation harder, not easier.