The Trump administration just tied federal student loan eligibility to actual graduate earnings. Good. But this barely scratches the surface of a system that has been looting American families for decades with government-backed, bankruptcy-proof debt handed to teenagers.
The DSA is winning primaries and Hakeem Jeffries is clapping for them. A small group of moderate Democrats is trying to push back, but let’s be honest about the odds.
The Great American Fair in D.C. is a flop of historic proportions, and what angers me most is not the failure itself. It is the people in this country celebrating it.
Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican, is co-sponsoring legislation with Elizabeth Warren to eliminate the Social Security payroll tax cap. For self-employed Americans and high earners, that is not a reform. That is a 52 percent tax rate dressed up as compassion.
The Department of Justice, run by Trump’s personal attorney, just created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded fund after settling a lawsuit that was days away from being thrown out of court. If this does not make your blood boil, you have not been paying attention.
They told us it was coming, and right on schedule the trial balloons are in the air. Stimulus checks are being floated again, wrapped in economic pain that is real, driven by political motives that have nothing to do with helping you.
Credit card stress at Great Recession levels, consumer sentiment in the gutter, prices up coast to coast, and the official line from Washington is that everything is basically fine. I don’t care which party is doing the gaslighting. A lie is a lie.
Six point two million people fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare still have their coverage intact, while I am paying forty thousand dollars a year and fighting to get a basic scan approved. This is not a broken system. This is a rigged one.
Eighteen-year-old college athletes are blowing NIL money on Bentleys for prom while advisors and agents stand around collecting their cut and saying nothing. This is financial malpractice dressed up as lifestyle management.
Both parties got together, shook hands, and handed the American financial system over to a handful of mega-banks. They called it modernization. I call it the setup for the greatest taxpayer heist in history.