Pause Before You Give Congress Credit for Trying to Stop Slave Labor in China

American corporate and political leaders are more eager than ever to burnish their do-gooder credentials. Companies are taking stands on social issues more than ever before. Politicians also want to make sure the voters know they are socially just. It’s no surprise, therefore, that each house of Congress has passed a bill to stop the importation of goods made with Chinese slave labor. What’s more interesting is just how much top American companies and our political leaders have done to slow down the process and weaken the protections. It’s a…

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4 Problems With Left’s Hypocritical Plan to Give Wealthy Constituents a Bigger SALT Deduction

Liberal legislators in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, and California seem determined to make sure that their own high-income constituents pay for as little of their big spending plan as possible. Recently, the House of Representatives passed the largest expansion of means-tested welfare spending in U.S. history, along with hundreds of billions of new corporate welfare. In addition to about $ 2 trillion of new taxes in the bill, fully funding the so-called Build Back Better Act would require multitrillion-dollar tax increases in the future. Members of congress…

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U.S. Default Date Is Estimate Congress Wants, Yellen Can’t Give – Bloomberg

U.S. Default Date Is Estimate Congress Wants, Yellen Can’t Give  Bloomberg Congress, Raise the Debt Limit  The Wall Street Journal Yellen urges US Congress to raise debt limit to avoid financial crisis  Philstar.com Five questions and answers about the debt ceiling fight | TheHill  The Hill Yellen urges Congress to act quickly on debt ceiling or risk ‘economic catastrophe’  MarketWatch View Full Coverage on Google News “us congress” – Google News

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