NYC Mayor Mamdani's Housing Plan Sparks Property-Rights Alarm Over Forced Transfers To Nonprofits

Exit Taxes Won't Save Failing States Authored by Vance Ginn via TheDailyEconomy.org, When a state starts floating an exit tax, it is telling you something more important than any campaign slogan: the people running the place know their model is not working.  They may not say it that way. They will call it fairness, responsibility, or making the wealthy “pay what they owe.” But the meaning is the same.  If families, entrepreneurs, and investors are leaving, the state can either ask why its policies are pushing them out, or it can try to tax...

Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh, Jackson Publicly Disagree Over Emergency Docket Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson clashed on March 9 over the court’s various emergency orders that have allowed President Donald Trump to pursue his policy agenda. The setting was a federal courtroom in the nation’s capital, at an annual lecture honoring former federal judge and prosecutor Thomas Aquinas Flannery, who died in 2007. Kavanaugh, who was appointed by Trump in 2018, and Jackson, who was appointed by President Joe Biden...

Brasília Makes Friends With Beijing Authored by Jake Scott via FEE, On a Sunday night in late July, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and China's Xi Jinping spoke for more than an hour. It was cordial and faintly triumphant, with the two governments announcing their intention to accelerate a long-stalled China-Mercosur trade agreement. Alongside this, there are plans to deepen cooperation on satellites and critical-minerals processing, and waive short-stay visa requirements. Image Credit: Custom image by FEE This marks a serious change for Brazil. For years, it was Brasília that had...