The Myth of The Medicare “Trust Fund”
Using the phrase “Medicare’s trust fund” for any reason other than exposing its falsehood is grossly misleading. It implies there’s a pot of money available to fund Medicare, when no such pot exists.
Using the phrase “Medicare’s trust fund” for any reason other than exposing its falsehood is grossly misleading. It implies there’s a pot of money available to fund Medicare, when no such pot exists.
or Milei to continue the vast reform agenda that Argentina needs, his party (or his party and those allied) will have to get a third of the seats plus one in either house—enough to prevent the opposition from overriding presidential vetoes.
Why should you care about statism, the increasing government control over your freedom?
There are arguments on both sides, many of which are fact-specific and depend on constantly changing circumstances.
By dollarizing, no future government would be able to manipulate the exchange rate for electoral purposes so as to make a run against the peso more likely, as has often been the case in Argentina.
The civilian workforce makes Washington D.C. “the nation’s single largest employer, with even more workers than Walmart, Amazon, or McDonald’s.”
Trump’s Gaza approach reflects what successful deal-makers grasp intuitively: strategic pressure paired with targeted action against genuine threats like Iran’s nuclear program can compel adversaries to negotiate without committing American forces to occupation.
As Rand observes, capitalism is the only system that makes peaceful co-existence among people and countries possible.
The only response terrorists understand is making them pay a disproportionately heavy price for endangering Israeli life.