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Authored by J.D.Wong via The Mises Institute,

Founded 54 years ago, Amtrak set out on a bold adventure to see if passenger trains could be profitable. 

Fast forward to today, this experiment has been unsuccessful. Politicians have often crafted routes to win votes rather than attract riders. 

As a result, Amtrak has been squandering taxpayer money since its start in 1971.

Take, for instance, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. It allocated a (more…)

Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

MAHA Hugger Mugger

One baseline truth in current American life is that our bodily well-being gets worse as the so-called health care industry gets ever-larger — it is now 17.6-percent of the economy (GDP). This is clearly the basis of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign that attached itself to the Trump 2.0 program. 

You hear almost no arguments against MAHA itself, even from the Party of Hustles and Hoaxes, but plenty of (more…)

President Donald Trump on Monday called on congressional Republicans to unify behind what he hailed as his "ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL," a sweeping legislative package that merges tax cuts, immigration reforms, and a raft of domestic priorities into a single reconciliation measure.

"This week the Republicans are meeting in the Tax, Energy, and Agriculture Committees on major pieces of 'THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,'" Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth (more…)