Links for 11-4-23

we have economic idiots at the helm

🚩 Supercharging inflation: California's latest minimum wage hike is already making things worse. From: Washington Examiner. California recently decided to hike the minimum wage for fast-food workers to a whopping $20 an hour.

Target CEO Warns: Consumers are “tightening up their spending," buying few groceries and toys. From: Zero Hedge. That consumers have hit a wall is also the view from JPMorgan and Goldman.

👉 The stakes are high as Supreme Court considers this obscure, unconstitutional tax. From: Washington Examiner. Should the justices rule in Moore vs. United States rule against the plaintiffs, the federal government effectively would gain seismic new powers to tax almost any property from which it hopes to extract revenue.

Biden threatens to veto GOP spending bill that would ‘cut' Amtrak funding to double pre-pandemic levels. From: Reason. Amtrak has historically received $2 billion in federal subsidies each year. Under Republicans' "draconian" cuts, they'd receive over $5 billion next year.

💉 Study: Nearly 1 in 3 COVID-19 vaccine recipients suffered neurological side effects. From: Epoch Times. The people included in the study suffered from headaches, tremors, muscle spasms, insomnia, sleepiness, vertigo, and difficulty in concentration.

'Canceling' people who celebrate the wanton murder of women and children is also free expression. From: David Harsanyi/Creators. Stopping malevolent ideas from being normalized is good.

🔎 Operation Deplorable: A who’s who of the ‘get Trump’ crusade. From: The Federalist. Here’s a ‘who’s who’ of the key players in the Democrats’ latest crusade to land the criminal conviction of Donald Trump.

“Your money’s in Joe’s house”: The Biden family’s version of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ From: Jonathan Turley. Despite the Bidens’ denials about money, it seems to be everywhere and nowhere — metastasizing and spreading throughout the dozens of accounts, banks and family members identified by House investigators.

⭐️ The politics of disdain. From: Brownstone Institute. Political elites made it simultaneously dangerous to utter anything remotely disparaging of some groups and fashionable to trash other groups.

House passes EPA spending bill that defunds several Biden climate initiatives. From: Daily Caller News. As with all anti-inflation measures, President Biden is expected to veto it.

SHORT: Police steal $70,000 from sexual abuse victim

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