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Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York

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Far-right bigot in 2026

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If he didn’t there wouldn’t be a single ENT in a very Spanish speaking part of town that would provide these surgeries to the community. He would have made more not doing surgery and just seeing patients at that rate. It’s ridiculous.

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Why would anyone get insurance if they get they same price that insurance pays.

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So they idea is to make the entire bill as big as possible so that 10% of it is bigger than it otherwise would be.

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blatantly corrupt and stupid.

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did your mother drop you on your head as a child?

look boy i was a broker from 1983 until 2004 the trading range of the djia was 1700 to 1900 in 1986, 1700 adjusted for inflation would be 5200 not 50,000

congratulations kid you're an idiot.

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dickkellog

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The kneejerk is to blame Democrats for being hyper-partisan

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The Big Bob Packwood Tax Reform
The Oregon senator, who died Saturday at 93, closed loopholes and cut the top rate to 28%.
By Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore
June 10, 2026

Forty years ago this month, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was heading for passage in the Senate. The act defined the Reagan revolution by lowering the highest personal income-tax rate—which had been 70% in 1981—to 28%. The corporate rate was slashed from 46% to 34%. The number of individual tax brackets went from 14 to two. When the dust settled, there were two tax rates: 28% and 15%. Everything was “paid for” by nixing exceptions in the tax code covering everything from real estate to unemployment benefits and racehorses to solar energy.

Sen. Bob Packwood carried the bill to victory. Packwood, who died Saturday at 93, was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. As Congress dithered, he took charge, sought out sensible Democrats like Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, and reached a deal. New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, a Finance Committee member, recalled his colleague’s work for the bill with these words: “Bob Packwood cajoled, threatened and persuaded others on the committee to embrace it, outmaneuvering senators who wanted higher rates and real estate lobbyists eager to protect tax shelters.”

“Let’s go radical,” Packwood told his Democratic colleagues, who joined him in cleaning out the stables of the tax code and using the savings to slash the tax rate even lower than the 35% that President Reagan had sought. Lobbyists gave up trying to fight the bill because of its epic proportions. The bill passed the Senate 97-3. “Yes” votes included Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden and Al Gore.

Yes, nearly every Democrat voted for a 28% tax rate.
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The law, on top of the 1981 Reagan tax cuts, made America a magnet for capital from around the globe. It helped launch the greatest period of wealth creation in world history over the succeeding 40 years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 1,808.35 on Oct. 22, 1986, the day Reagan signed the law. Today it is over 50,000.

Tax revenue exploded with lower tax rates. The share of taxes paid by the wealthy rose as they lost their favorite tax shelters and instead put their money to productive use. Economist Martin Feldstein, who served as chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (1982-84), wrote on these pages in 2011 that “actual experience after 1986 showed an enormous rise in taxes paid, particularly by those who experienced the greatest reductions in marginal tax rates.”
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When the Bottom Stories Are the Real News
Good news gets buried when it doesn’t fit the left’s narrative of perpetual crisis.
By James B. Meigs
June 11, 2026

Why does negative news dominate our national conversation while positive stories quickly fade away? The traditional explanation is that bad events are newsworthy because they break the norm, while positive trends tend to be gradual. And yes, there’s still truth to that old maxim, “If it bleeds it leads.”

But...

Here are four big trends the press doesn’t talk about enough, but the rest of us should:

Mississippi’s Kids Are Learning

This one isn’t news to Journal readers. “Mississippi, which spends far less per student than almost every other state, is outperforming other states with larger education budgets,” Jason L. Riley wrote earlier this year. At a time when student test scores are plunging nationally, Mississippi and several other Southern states have dramatically turned the tide.

How did they do it? By rejecting left-wing orthodoxy on education. While other states embraced fuzzy “whole language” approaches to reading and reduced testing in the name of equity, Mississippi went back to phonics and strict accountability. And, crucially, the state didn’t let teachers unions derail the project. This “Mississippi miracle” has gotten some coverage. Even the New York Times praised the gains. But it hasn’t provoked a nationwide revolt against the entrenched education establishment. It should.

Crime Is Dropping

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. murder rate dropped almost 15% in 2024, and other major crimes fell as well. Baltimore saw homicides plunge roughly 60% between 2022 and 2025. That’s an astounding victory for the city once known as “Bulletmore, Murderland.”

What happened? The public got sick of left-wing crime policies, for one thing. In the delirious days of the George Floyd protests, activists argued that we needed to “literally abolish the police.” Progressive prosecutors promised to let more defendants go free. Police pulled back. For these and other reasons, the murder rate skyrocketed. Soon voters had enough. They booted some of the worst prosecutors and started backing the cops again. Baltimore launched an aggressive “focused deterrence” program targeting repeat violent offenders for prison, while also giving young men help escaping gang life. The results speak for themselves.

Baltimore’s tough-minded approach should be Topic A in every city hall in America.

The Environment is Cleaner

A recent Gallup poll found that 66% of Americans think the environment is getting worse. In truth, pollution has plummeted. Since 1980, carbon monoxide emissions have dropped 87% percent; sulfur dioxide by 95%; and other forms of air pollution declined by large measures as well—all during a period when the U.S. population grew by around 50% and the economy more than tripled in size. Our lakes and rivers tell a similar story.

The public’s uninformed pessimism suits the activist class. An atmosphere of perpetual crisis helps justify radical policies. So it’s no surprise that, while we were winning the war on pollution, progressives pivoted to the more amorphous threat of climate change....

Americans Are Getting Healthier

I complain a lot about progressive activists. But when it comes to America’s health, left-wing pessimists and MAHA populists are both reluctant to accept good news. And lately, there has been a lot of good news: Death rates from drug overdoses are plummeting. The rise in obesity seems to have peaked. Today, 70% of people diagnosed with cancer will survive for five years or more, up from 50% since the 1970s. Deaths from heart attacks have declined nearly 90% since the 1950s. Overall, after a Covid-era drop, U.S. life expectancy recently reached its highest level ever, at 79 years.

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You mean have the US government ban trade with China?

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To say the US held the same monetary and economic power it did in the late 1700s as it does today is silly.

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