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Dec 28
High earners are fleeing socialist California in droves, taking massive revenues with them.
Productive people and entrepreneurs have always fled high taxes and life-choking regulations. It has been widely reported that California has lost population for the past few years. But it has not been widely reported that those leaving California are starkly different from those immigrating to California. “State budget analysts recently projected a record $68-billion deficit in the …
Dec 24
Polling reveals that Americans have never had less trust in “institutions.”
Polling reveals that Americans have never had less trust in “institutions.” For 50 years, Gallup has routinely asked people how much they trust major media outlets. Over time, those who say they have absolutely no trust in mainstream media went from being the smallest segment of the population to the largest segment of the population. …
Dec 24
New Survey: Germans’ feelings of freedom to express their political opinions is lowest in 70 years
Yellow: Germans who feel they can speak freely. Red: Germans who feel they CANNOT speak freely. If anything, the grip of “political correctness” is stronger in Europe than in the U.S. The prescribed (and sometimes mandated) ideology of socialism, equality of outcomes, anti-mobility, anti-automobility, trust in government, and the climate doomsday religion is repeated …
Dec 22
Socialist California loses population for 3rd straight year
Sacramento. 12/22/23. California–once the most popular destination for Americans on the move–has been under socialist rule for decades. And now residents have been fleeing the high-tax, high-regulation state continuously for three years. See here. The tyrannical government of California has banned gas-powered lawnmowers, locked down the population, and mandated masks and injections throughout State schools …
Dec 22
Tucker Carlson announced a new podcast – and it’s already the nation’s 3rd most popular on Spotify, before it begins.
Glenn Greenwald. 12/21/2023. Carlson’s podcast–although it doesn’t even exist yet–is about to pass the NYT’s The Daily. “Roughly half of the top 50 news podcasts are independent media.” See here. “Corporate media is still in full denial about this.” “Mainstream” information sources–meaning those that are government supporting and (secretly) government supported–simply are no longer mainstream. …
Dec 21
Study: Government Regulations Cause Average American to take 2 Fewer Trips per Year
WASHINGTON -. U.S. Travel Association. 12/21/2023. Air travelers take an average of two fewer trips per year at a projected total cost of $71 billion to the U.S. economy—according to a new U.S. Travel survey from Ipsos. “When nearly 60% of recent air travelers find the experience the equivalent or worse than going to the DMV, it is a …
Dec 21
Socialism’s Grip Tightens Around the World
Governments across the globe are raising taxes, expanding government control. Wall Street Journal. Dec. 18, 2023. Tom Fairless of the Wall Street Journal writes that “The Era of Big Taxes Is Upon Us.” “Tax revenues have risen to record levels as a share of economic output” in France, Japan and South Korea. “In the U.S., …
Dec 20
Shellenberger: Nearly every major media platform is seeing double-digit-percentage declines in audience.
Twitter. 12/20/2023. Journalist Michael Shellenberger writes that “Nearly every major media organization saw its digital audience decline 13% to 35% (!) over the last year.” “It’s because people lost trust in the media, which got every big story of the last few years wrong.” For example, readership of the Washington Post is down 27%. Readership …
Dec 20
Never has a college degree been more worthless than today.
New Study finds employers are now LESS LIKELY to hire an employee with a college degree than they are to hire one without. Newsweek. Dec. 19, 2023. According to the Freedom Economy Index, an overwhelming 91 percent of the 70,000 small businesses they surveyed said colleges are not “graduating students with relevant skills that today’s business …
Dec 16
Obamacare and “public health” have sent life expectancy plummeting.
Los Angeles. December 16, 2023. Dr. Robert M. Califf recently wrote about the “catastrophic” drop in life expectancy since government took over control of most healthcare. “We are facing extraordinary headwinds in our public health with a major decline in life expectancy. The major decline in the U.S. is not just a trend. I’d describe …
