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Border patrol: US Can Control Immigration
For all of the claims “that it’s impossible to rein in illegal immigration” with out “comprehensive immigration reform,” observes Jeffrey H. Anderson at City Journal, “The Congressional Budget Office has recently made clear that all it really takes is a president willing to enforce federal immigration laws.”
Just earlier than President Trump took workplace, “the CBO estimated that a net 1.1 million ‘other foreign nationals’” — that’s, unlawful migrants — “would be added to the US population in 2025. Now the CBO has revised that estimate downward by a whopping 1.5 million”: not a 1.1 million increase however a drop of 360,000.
Why? The CBO factors to Trump insurance policies, particularly requiring asylum seekers to depart the nation to use.
That is, Trump stopped the “lawless practice of releasing illegal aliens into the US interior.”
Contrary to Kamala Harris and The Wall Street Journal editorial board, “fixing the problem required only executing the laws already on the books.”
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Libertarian: End Tax Breaks for Seniors
The thought of “expanding property tax breaks for senior citizens” is “bad policy,” argues Reason’s Eric Boehm, but appears to be “gaining traction” as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) desires them exempted from property taxes.
No! Seniors are “wealthier than average,” get “outsized government benefits” like Social Security and Medicare and already benefit from many particular tax breaks.
Making it simpler for them to stay of their empty nests drives up costs for youthful Americans. Rather than hand more breaks to seniors, we must always reverse these already on the books.
“Seniors should pay property taxes, just like everyone else.”
Health beat: Dems Should Back Fighting Fraud
“Vice President JD Vance has made health care a central focus of the Trump administration’s anti-fraud agenda,” cheer the Washington Examiner’s editors, however Democrats “are reflexively treating every enforcement action as a partisan attack.”
Why? Such fraud is “a direct threat to elderly, poor and disabled people.”
Dems’ resistance to efforts to battle fraud “probably says much about their guilty consciences” over enabling this theft — however they, of all people, “should care about fraud because its prevalence undermines support and further funding of the programs they cherish.”
Sure, “insist that enforcement be accurate and fair, and protect legitimate care, but they should stop treating anti-fraud work as a Trump plot.”
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Hate watch: Targeting Helen Mirren
“There is no low to which those pathologically obsessed with the state of Israel won’t stoop in order to intimidate and denigrate their opponents,” together with “the elderly actress Helen Mirren,” huffs Spiked’s Hugo Timms.
She’s not “Jewish, but she supports the existence of the Jewish state,” portrayed “Golda Meir in a 2023 biopic” and “has spoken out against the boycotts” of Israel.
Now viral video reveals an “anti-Zionist” loudly harassing Mirren and her husband on a London avenue, “yet further proof of what a twisted and deranged ideology anti-Zionism can be.”
If this hate is so warped that “yelling at an elderly woman and her husband is a noble action,” then “we are in a very dark place indeed.”
Eye on power: Renewable-Power Push Spikes Costs
“Electricity prices are spiking, our power grid is struggling and it’s all Jimmy Carter’s fault,” grumbles James B. Meigs at The Wall Street Journal.
“For decades, federal and state policies nudged operators to retire dependable coal, gas and nuclear plants and replace that electricity with wind and solar power.”
It began when Carter advised weaning “the US off energy imports” in favor of renewable energy, “including solar, wind and biomass.”
The “price of renewable electricity doesn’t account for the huge expense of integrating massive surges of wind and solar power into our current grid.”
And huge battery banks for energy storage is “yet another infrastructure expense needed to make wind and solar work.”
Energy coverage have to be “guided by engineering and economic reality — not politically motivated wishcasting.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
