Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
Those Who Build and the Politicians Who Take
By Veronique de Rugy
Thursday, August 20 2026
There's an old saying: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. A similar idea underscores the debate over wealth taxes in California and elsewhere: Those who can, build companies. Those who can't, devise ways for the government to take shares in what others have built. This new version might sound unfair until you listen to Rep. Ro Khanna's (D-Calif.) pitch for an allegedly onetime, 5% wealth tax on California billionaires, tied to November's vote on Proposition 40. Space constraints prevent us from surveying all that's wrong with wealth taxes here. But as a reminder, they raise very little…
 
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