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From the proper: Socialists’ Tragic ‘Ignorance’
For the final decade, “people have been trying to explain the American left’s socialist turn,” observes The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Continetti. Here’s one doable clarification: “ignorance.” “You can’t earn a billion dollars,” argued Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, including that “the American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time.” One drawback: “The link between individual effort and reward isn’t always clear. State action is visible; the operations of the market are not.” But neither “billionaire” nor “wealth” seem in the Declaration of Independence, and the Revolution was really “fought over political power,” to not cut down billionaires. How tragic: “To forget the causes and aims of the Revolution is to lose touch with America itself.”
Legal take: Getting the Voting Act Wrong
“The prevailing interpretation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965” as “requiring states to create congressional districts along racial lines” is obvious unsuitable, explains Frank Miele at RealClearPolitics. Section 2 of the act banned any “qualification or prerequisite to voting” primarily based on race, “to guarantee minorities access to the ballot box as equal participants in the democratic process” — but it surely didn’t mandate “racial engineering of congressional districts.” Indeed, the 1982 revision to the VRA particularly guidelines out the “right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.” The VRA “never explicitly required states to create majority-minority congressional districts,” and the Supreme Court’s latest resolution undoes a long time of unlawful utility of racial consideration to the drawing of congressional districts.
Libertarian: No ‘Tax Holiday’ for Travelers
While President Trump’s proposed “gas tax holiday” is welcome, “the real bite isn’t the federal 18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline and 24.4 cents on each gallon of diesel fuel,” contends Reason’s J.D. Tuccille. Indeed, should you journey and particularly should you rent a car, then gasoline taxes are “the least of the problem.” Fact is, “travelers make for easy marks” for politicians, since they don’t reside in “the places that soak them for revenue.” Per the Tax Foundation, “high local taxes and fees make Chicago the most expensive city, tax-wise, to rent a car.” “Travelers are also considered fair game for lodging taxes,” that are rising, too. Bottom line: With a “limited means to punish tax-hungry officials in places they visit,” vacationers are “unlikely to enjoy anything like a tax holiday.”
Antisemitism beat: Jewish Dems’ Dilemma
A latest gathering of “Jewish Democrats offers insight into how Jews are attempting to reconcile their political identity with their party’s explosion of anti-Semitism,” notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Notably, “establishment Democrats” are embracing Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed Maine Senate nominee, regardless of his “history of anti-Semitic and misogynist comments.” Jewish Democratic Council of America director Halie Soifer, as an example, says she has a “deep concern about [Platner’s] views and values,” but, notes Mandel, she’s nonetheless open “to reconciliation.” Jewish Dems’ sluggish embrace of “the need to fight anti-Semitism” of their celebration has “enabled the rise of the very candidates Soifer now claims to be concerned about.” They need to know: “Staying neutral” isn’t an option; “if Jewish Democrats aren’t going to resist having extremist anti-Semites representing their party, then virtually no one will.”
Fraud watch: Minnesota Greenlighted Theft
“State education officials” in Minnesota warned of fraud involving a “federally funded meals program during the pandemic,” however their “supervisors stopped them” from taking “aggressive action,” studies Jeffrey Meitrodt at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “Supervisors repeatedly stopped” one state worker “from digging into suspicious reimbursement claims” relating to the infamous Feeding Our Future program, and “discouraged.” Of specific word: The worker was “warned not to do anything that would be considered targeting or discriminating against certain diverse communities.” Another worker ID’d techniques fraudsters used “to overwhelm regulators with paperwork,” making it more durable for them to identify fraud” however supervisors nixed any countermeasures.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
