A survey of employers and employees also shows widespread elimination of jobs and cutbacks in hours. By Peter Romeo Nearly 1 out of 10 restaurateurs in areas with a recently increased minimum wage have closed an operation since the cost hike, and 71% have attempted to pass along the rise to customers by raising menu prices, according […]
In the new nation that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota seeks to create, the “capitalist system” will be left behind in pursuit of a “fair and just economy” where the federal government guarantees everybody jobs, housing, health care and free abortions. How can we know this? She has declared it in writing. Omar’s campaign […]
Taxpayers from all 50 states pay into the Highway Trust Fund when they fill their tanks with gas or diesel fuel. That sends billions of dollars a year to Washington, which then cuts checks to state governments in the form of infrastructure grants overseen by federal bureaucrats. It’s hard to tell just what shuffling so […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News The CEO of Volvo warns that the company is considering moving its headquarters out of Sweden in the future, due to a rise in violent crime from Migrants. Håkan Samuelsson told a conference that the car maker was losing its appeal to foreign experts and engineers and […]
“A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane… I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that […]
by Tyler Durden Pre-foreclosures are spiking in New York City according to a new PropertyShark analysis. On a quarter over quarter basis, they are up an astounding 31%. Analysis for New York indicated that the city saw 3,070 properties entering pre-foreclosure for the first time in Q2. According to the report, foreclosures are likely to increase in […]
The average Illinois driver will pay at least $100 more annually for gas under a new law, which went into effect on July 1, analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute reveals. On June 28, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) signed into law a record tax hike that doubles the state’s gas tax and substantially raises […]
Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” Proponents of the law say it’s necessary to avoid confusing consumers. That…doesn’t sound right. By Kelsey Piper Jul 3, 2019, 4:00pm EDT It’s been a good few months for the plant-based meat movement — so good that opponents of the fledgling industry are starting to mobilize. […]
By William Sullivan In 1927, several socialist-leaning American academics visited the Soviet Union, anxious to bring back stories of how successful the new Communist regime had been in its decade of infancy, and how it was exceeding American prosperity by cobbling a technocratic, redistributive path into the future. Many returned with fantastic stories about how America […]
By Monica Showalter It would seem to be a no-brainer that free health care for people who’ve broken into our country with no vetting wouldn’t be a popular idea. Free health insurance for MS-13, human-smuggling cartels, and everyone else who makes it across? Step right up. All Democrats on Thursday night’s debate stage raised their hands together for it. And, well, […]
