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It is clear, however, that in passing these responsibilities to government we should be exchanging freedom for something else as yet unnamed.
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It rises even faster when the national income is falling.
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And at the top the federal government, with no authority over the sovereign states, would very much like to come to an understanding about taxation, because more and more Federal and state taxes collide at the same source, as with the income tax, which now some states are using in competition with the federal government.
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It takes a higher rate of taxation to produce a given amount of revenue.
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Now suppose that under stress of abnormal public revenue the structure of government is somewhat rationalized and that by such means as economy and efficiency the cost of government by measure is much reduced.
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Suppose it.
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Now, much more potent are the forces acting upon a definite political doctrine.
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For the same reason they protest lightly or not at all against the use of public credit to save the private banking structure, for that will tend to bring about state control of credit.
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Everyone knows that impulse.
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At the recent national conference of the American Association for Old Age Security, Representative Connery,4 who is moving an old-age pension bill in Congress, said, Evidence was introduced before the House Committee to show that the cost of old-age pensions would be much less to the states and municipalities than is the present cost of the workhouse institutions.
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Every resource to soften its institutional features has been used, including motion-picture shows, concerts, an extensive library, pool tables, newspapers, magazines.” It is really a better place to live than many of the private homes taxed to support it.
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But when one expresses a timid doubt regarding the necessity for such and such a project because of the expense, these boosters argue, “The public demands it,” when, as a matter of fact, they themselves originated the scheme… Further tax-boosting influences emanate from the “per capita” or “model” standards.
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Obviously, we cannot continue in this direction without consequences either disastrous in fact or revolutionary in principle.
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There is a crisis in the economics of human welfare.
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But the risk is real.
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It may be that we are done with the anarchy of prices which we have so long justified by supposing a law of supply and demand.
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Hilaire Belloc, in his book The Servile State, defined that something else as economic status.
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We speak here of all government—national, state, city and local—from Washington above down to the counties, townships, boroughs and districts, all exercising the tax power.
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“Take the case of New York,” he says.
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Observe another strange bedfellowship.
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“But where do many of these governmental elaborations come from?” asks the secretary of the Des Moines Bureau of Municipal Research.
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They borrowed the money, and now the problem of Detroit is what to do about its debt.
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Out of the city’s own resources, unaided by creditors, the people of Detroit could not have enjoyed these benefits of social service.
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In a recent report on the “new poor,” made by the Welfare Council of New York City, there is a reference to “the mental infection of dependency.” This was upon the investigation of unemployment relief.
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And he cites, for example, one state where the state income tax, which has just been doubled, plus the new and higher Federal income tax, will amount to more than one-fifth of a personal income above $12,000 a year, rising to more than three-fifths of a personal income above $100,000 a year.
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With a national income of not more than $60 billion this year, we are obliged to buy more government than we bought with a national income of nearly $90 billion in 1929; moreover, in this depression, we are obliged to buy a good deal of it on the deferred-payment plan.
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There will be an enormous increase of public revenue, as there was after the war from the carry-over of the wartime taxes.
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Such a boss as this now commands the support, first, of all the beneficiaries of social service; secondly, of all who promote and live by social service; thirdly, of those whose doctrine is to take and give; and he has still his machine as it was before.
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As if the taxpayer were willing, for the sake of some immediate relief, to increase the load of those who come next.
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In all of these ways we are exchanging freedom for something else—for security, for status, for refuge from the terrors of individual responsibility.
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What relief does the taxpayer imagine?
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A third formation of forces moving in a parallel manner to absorb the national income by extension of government is made up of practical reformers, idealists, good-government people, with or without any political theory.
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Whether this would be all for the best, or otherwise, is not yet the point.
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The first thought will be that the war did it—the war itself and the after costs of the war in such things as veterans’ relief, pensions and national defense.
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That state has sixty-two counties and sixty cities … In addition there are 932 towns, 507 villages, and, at the last count, 9,600 school districts … Just try to render efficient service … amid the diffused identities and inevitable jealousies of, roughly, 11,000 independent administrative officers or boards!
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What it means is extension of government—not bad government only but good and bad together.
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They have not only tolerated but given encouragement to an ever-expanding cost of government.
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That is to say, we have not consciously intended it.
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There cannot even be a discussion of it until we see clearly where we are going.
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That is to say, corrupt government tends to limit and defeat itself.
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Not less government; only as much government as before for less money.
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Creditors are hard, yes; only, suppose there had been no creditors to borrow from.
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That when railroads, in a crisis, are unable to meet their interest charges, it becomes a function of government to save them with loans of public credit, as through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, not for the sake of any railroad as such, but because if the railroads go bankrupt the savings banks, the insurance companies and many thousands of investors who hold railroad bonds will be hurt.
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The more efficient government is, the less it costs per measure, all the faster it may be extended without producing that very acute pain in the taxpayer’s pocket.
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All the public treasuries will be rich.
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Who so mean that he will not himself be taxed, who so mindful of wealth that he will not favor increasing the popular taxes, in aid of these defective children?
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Any alternative would be revolutionary in principle, such as, for example, as for the state to appropriate all wealth and administer it directly.
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But what of American individualism?
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(Related: Australian COVID-19 test kit manufacturer recalls 195,000 at-home kits due to high rate of false positives.)
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The decline is not predicted to last long, however, as the combination of waning COVID-19 immunity and colder weather on the horizon will see more people heading indoors, which could send the infections back up.
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“There’ll be a rise in hospitalization and mortality, but not as high proportionally to the rise in cases simply because many of us – the majority of Americans right now – have been either infected or vaccinated or both, so we have some immunity,” he said.
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He posted this question: “I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that we’ve had about 100 million infections the past three months, so why couldn’t that happen again in winter?”
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Dr. Anthony Fauci has been warning of a “likely” fall surge as early as April.
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University of Washington epidemiologist Ali Mokdad predicted a rise in reported COVID-19 cases.
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It insisted that replenishing the existing stockpile of at-home tests will help meet some testing needs in the months ahead and will put the U.S. in a better position to manage a potential increase in testing demand in the fall and winter.
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The trend is expected to reverse as soon as next month.
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President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly – and unsuccessfully – asked Congress for more pandemic funding.
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COVID cases decreasing in September COVID-19 cases have actually been decreasing in September, after plateauing during the summer months at over 100,000 cases each day.
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The Biden administration predicted nearly 100 million Americans getting infections in the fall and winter, warning that the number was a median estimate and many more cases are possible, especially if a new variant appears.
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Last week, it requested $22.4 billion in emergency funding for the fall.
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This will be the third fall with COVID-19, and while infections and deaths still remain elevated, much of society has returned to a semi-normal state, with children heading back to school and offices bustling with workers.
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Big Pharma companies are known allies of Democrats, so one can easily figure out where this leads.
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In a statement, the White House said: “The administration is acting, within its limited funding, to increase the supply of at-home COVID-19 tests in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) by purchasing over 100 million additional at-home, rapid tests from domestic manufacturers.”
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The administration also warned that it would be unable to provide enough tests, vaccines, and treatments without more funding.
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However, Mokdad warned that while the Biden administration’s projections remain feasible, the currently dominant variant – omicron – still remains very contagious.
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Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health epidemiologist Dr. David Dowdy said it is possible that the U.S. will see a number of cases similar to the latest surge.
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But the White House and mainstream media will try to avoid that kind of conversation.
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In fact, the White House said this is only a short-term solution to the problem.
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iSteve commenter BosTex writes: I-94 in Saint Paul is a racist road.
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But let’s look at a map of a once famously black place, Compton, CA, home of West Coast gangsta rap.
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Say your city has just two freeways, built at right angles that meet in the middle of town.
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The freeways take up an increasing percentage of the city surface as you go from the outskirts to the interchange near the center.
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I-93 in Boston is kind of a racist road in that it skirts Roxbury and cuts it off from the terrible racists in South Boston and all the South Boston magic dirt which makes Southie perfectly great to live in and walk around in at 2 AM (unlike Roxbury) and access to the South Boston beaches, which is bad because we know that black people like to swim.
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It looks “freeway close” to a lot of destinations like LAX, DTLA, the Port, Century City, etc.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed to The Associated Press on Thursday that $104.6 million in federal funds coming from last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill will go toward a plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a highway built to bisect Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood and its epicenter of Black business, Paradise Valley.
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iSteve commenter Sparkling Wiggle writes: Highway placement is a funny no-win situation.
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If it goes down the middle of a black neighborhood, it splits the community.
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Way out on the outskirts, the average resident is inconveniently far from any freeway.
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Way downtown, the two freeways take up too much of the surface, making pedestrianism inconvenient.
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The move is part of the Biden administration’s broader effort to remake America’s infrastructure to be more equitable, including addressing racist roads that were designed to facilitate white flight and deprive Black communities of housing and commercial opportunities.
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If it goes along the edge of a black neighborhood, it separates it from nearby white communities.
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If it is far away from a black neighborhood, then that neighborhood has been bypassed and cut off.
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All three claims are being made about different highways right now in different parts of the country.
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It ran over the Rondo neighborhood which was the black neighborhood in the Twins Cities.
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Very, very racist.
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It is also racist to have a black neighborhood, so I 94 should have been routed elsewhere, cutting the black neighborhood from something or other, causing more racist mayhem.
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That didn’t keep it from changing from the home of two future Presidents around 1950 to a crack hell around 1990 to a pretty nondescript mostly Latino working class community today.
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So, I dunno…
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Somewhere in-between is an optimum point, although I’ve never seen any discussion of where that would fall.
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A freeway runs through the south edge of Compton and along its east edge, but, overall, it looks to me to be pretty well served by freeways, sitting in the middle of a rectangle of freeways.
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The Biden administration is capping off the president’s recent trip to Michigan, focused largely on worker rights and transportation innovation, by handing out its first federal grant to dismantle a highway built to perpetuate racial discrimination.
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Blacks tend to live near the center of cities, so their neighborhoods tend to get chopped up more.
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Price increases have also been seen in goods and services not directly affected by the pandemic or the war in Ukraine, which could be a sign that inflation is a longer-term problem.
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"Recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production," the Fed said.
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Projections further indicate that the rate will be 4.4 percent by the end of 2023, the Post continues.
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"Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low."
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The higher rate aims to slow the market, but will likely put pressure on many households and businesses, The Washington Post reports.
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This is the fifth interest rate hike this year; however, it has done little to combat rapidly increasing prices due to inflation.
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The current inflation rate sits at approximately 8.3 percent and it has caused a stark increase in the price of groceries and utilities, especially electricity, reports NPR.
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This could lead to a recession in the coming year, but Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cannot confirm whether a recession will happen, or the severity if it did.
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