Source: Brownstone Institute
by Toby Rogers

“The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will discuss hepatitis B vaccines at their meeting on December 4 and 5. In this article I will lay out the case for removing hepatitis B vaccines from the CDC childhood schedule altogether. As the Informed Consent Action Network has demonstrated, the hepatitis B vaccines Recombivax and Engerix — injected into the vast majority of American children at birth, one month, and six months of age — never should have been licensed by the FDA in the first place.” (12/03/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/hep-b-shot-not-proven-safe-or-effective-for-kids/

Source: TomDispatch
by Frida Berrigan

“Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don’t get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. It’s nestled in my wallet right behind my driver’s license. It reminds me that there was a time when I needed help and was able to get it. It’s the kind of reminder we all need — and one that’s in ever shorter supply these days. When I was poorer, that card filled every month with money I could spend on food — fruits and vegetables, oil, spices, and cheese at the grocery store. I marshalled my resources carefully then, never taking them for granted. When Congress and the Trump White House shut the government down recently, they hit 42 million Americans right in their wallets. They took that stability away.” (12/04/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/giving-a-fig/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Gerard Lyons

“One word describes this Budget: bad, but it can be used three times, bad, bad, bad. Bad in terms of its fiscal consequences, economic impact and the incentives it embeds. Because so much of the Budget was trailed in advance, the initial impact of it may be seen as neutral. It’s not. The Red Book confirmed that Britain is a high public spending, high tax and high borrowing economy—and with no appetite ever to reform. The Budget provided a decisive shift away from a focus on economic growth to redistribution as a driver of fiscal policy. Tax hikes, not trimming public spending. Hitting work, not incentivising it. And saddling businesses with higher costs. The unintended consequences of the Chancellor’s 88 fiscal measures will be hard to quantify, but is unlikely to be economically beneficial.” (12/03/25)

https://fee.org/articles/low-growth-high-taxes-and-no-control/

Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome

“Complexity is a tax, and today U.S. companies are paying through the nose.” (12/03/25)

https://www.cato.org/commentary/welcome-tariff-complexity-hell

Source: In These Times
by J Patrick Patterson

“Across the country, entire neighborhoods are losing their grocery stores — and not just big chains, but independents as well as family-owned shops and markets. It’s part of a broader pattern of food access disappearing where it’s needed most, often in poorer neighborhoods, larger Black or Latino communities and areas with a history of disinvestment. Some companies, like Walmart and Kroger, promote themselves as ‘a community partner’ only to turn around and cite the very same conditions as reasons to leave. In the South and West Sides of Chicago and parts of Detroit or Kansas City, Mo., grocery stores have left, citing low profits, crime or aging infrastructure. Other times, stores simply consolidate or move to wealthier suburbs. Have city-run stores been tried? Yep! But mostly in rural areas. Baldwin, Fla. (a town of about 1,300) opened its own grocery store, in 2019, after the last independently owned one closed.” (12/03/25)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/municipal-owned-grocery-store-food-desert-rural-chicago-kansas-city-detroit-market-vendors-public-community-care