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David Harsanyi: For those of you who survived the Great GOP Tax Cut Massacre, things are finally looking up. The unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent last month, the lowest rate since 1969. The economy added 263,000 jobs in April, beating expectations. Wages are rising. In December 2017, Larry Summers, Bill Clinton’s former treasury secretary, warned that tax reform would kill more than 10,000 Americans every year. Summers was just one of the many fearmongers. The same month, after cautioning that passage of tax cuts would portend “Armageddon,” then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi explained that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was “the worst bill in the history of the United States Congress.” Worse than the Fugitive Slave Act? Worse than congressional approval of the internment of Japanese Americans? The tenor of left-wing cable news and punditry was predictably panic-stricken. After asserting that the cuts wouldn’t help create a single job, Bruce Bartlett told MSNBC that ta...

NY Times Editorial: What They Don’t Want to Talk About Mitt Romney and the Republican Party fear talking about income inequality in the campaign. Is it fair that editorial writers in New York City make more than a blogger on the prairie of Texas?   I admit I have never thought about the subject before.  The fact is that I really would not want to trade places with those struggling wretches in the NY Times building, but I bet you they have never thought the income inequality between us was very important either. So why are they so envious of the success of others who make more than them?  Why do they try to hide that envy under the guise of "fairness."  Is it fair that they are making more for their product than PrairiePundit? The fact is that we all make choices of how and where we will live our lives.  I am happy with my choice.  I really like living where I do.  I suspect that working in New York means living ...