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That is the amount that Brad Polumbo reports through the Foundation for Economic Education as the lifetime tax bite that makes Rhode Island sixth worst in the country. Polumbo’s source is a report titled “Life of Tax: What Americans Will Pay in Taxes Over a Lifetime.” The average for the country overall is $525,037, meaning…
Glenn Reynolds is right: The strategy of promoting a racial shift for political gain is “odious, and Democrats have been openly gloating about it for years.” As Ann Althouse writes, noting the careful parsing of a New York Times article on the subject: The “Great Replacement” theory is referred to elsewhere in the article, here: “Contrary…
Rhode Island needs a reset of its attitude on COVID, because we’re compounding and extending the economic damage we’ve done through our reaction to the coronavirus by amping up psychological damage to our children. Courtney Carter reports on WPRI: When kids return to summer camp this year, they’ll still need to bring their face masks…
It’s actually quite peculiar. On and shortly after January 6, one was apt to see comments on social media and elsewhere from mainstreamers promoting the motley crew who, at least, had the best insurrection costumes. I even remember hyperventilation about how the buffalo guy had left a threatening note for the vice president. But it…
And in this case, by “conservatives,” I just mean anybody who thinks our country is worth saving. In particular, I have in mind a couple of tweets from conservative pundit Jesse Kelly that Glenn Reynolds posted on Instapundit a few weeks ago (but that are not available on Twitter anymore): REMINDER: You cannot laissez-faire your way…
John DePetro’s been posting about various incidents at Narragansett beach over the weekend. First there were gang fights at Narragansett Pier: A massive gang beach brawl broke out on Narragansett town beach known as the pier on Sunday. A woman from Cranston was threatened when she asked gang members to lower their music ( as they were…
With Rhode Island’s elected officials’ piling on the burden of mandatory increases in the cost of labor for the next few years just when Rhode Island businesses most need flexibility, we should pay careful attention to findings like Adam McCann’s on WalletHub. McCann compared all states’ unemployment claim recovery and found Rhode Island to be second-worst…
HealthDay reporter Dennis Thompson writes about a trend (via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit) that is certainly worth keeping an eye on: An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID-19 variants as well as other coronaviruses — maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold. And it’s dirt cheap — less…
Mark Zaccaria explains, for Rhody Reporter, how the introduction of a viable alternative global currency to the U.S. dollar could force the United States government (and its dependent states, like Rhode Island) to finally start paying for programs… or reduce them.
Not a lot of time is required to understand how collective bargaining is supposed to work. In the private sector, management has incentive to increase profits and squeeze savings out of workers, so employees coordinate their efforts so they have leverage as a group to protect their own interests. Given that they are bound together…
