Source: In These Times
by Celeste Pepitone-Nahas

“In the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, the power of the extremely wealthy over public policy has never been more evident. As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has asserted, ‘Trump has … said it loudly and clearly: we are a government of billionaires.’ The troubling extent to which we are ruled by the rich is hardly debatable. The real question is: what can we do about it? One solution that has been proposed in the past is implementing a ‘maximum wage.’ Such a cap would limit the amount any individual can earn over a given period. There are a couple different ways that this limit could be accomplished. One way would be to use tax policy: We could simply levy a 100% tax rate on income over a particular level.” [editor’s note: I’ll leave the readers of this to comment on the sheer idiocy of penalizing productivity in this proposal – SAT] (09/23/25)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/maximum-wage-billionaire-ceos-economy-trump-inequality

Source: Reason
by Nick Gillespie

“Speeches by the president, Stephen Miller, and Tucker Carlson will accelerate dislike of the president’s agenda.” (09/23/25)

https://reason.com/2025/09/23/why-the-charlie-kirk-memorial-might-spell-the-end-of-trump-and-maga/

Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter

“President Donald Trump has displayed an exceptional ability to combine the separate civil liberties abuses of his predecessors into a more comprehensive toxic brew. The latest example involved the ABC television network’s decision to oust late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for insensitive, partisan remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. If ABC’s management had made that decision without pressure from the government, there would be no valid First Amendment issue involved. However, comments that Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi made pointed to government meddling or outright coercion. … Restoring the First Amendment should begin with a concerted campaign to abolish the FCC, thereby preventing any White House occupant from using that agency as a partisan or ideological weapon.” (09/23/25)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/abolish-the-fcc/

Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp

“Maybe there’s really no  causal link to autism/ADHD; maybe there is. But with any number of pain relief options out there, does it really make sense to continue using a drug we already knew was bad for us? While a senile reality TV star and publicity-seeking nepo baby might not be the best spokesmen for an anti-acetaminophen advocacy campaign, those of us who care about our own health and the health of our loved ones should probably just take the ‘I learned something today’ win here. As to reasons for the sudden, and obviously fast-tracked, rollout of the Trump/RFK campaign, we can plausibly infer that it’s of a piece with other recent publicity plays, from Trump’s murder campaign in the Caribbean, to the making of a podcaster into a partisan martyr, to the ‘cancellation’ campaigns against anti-Trump media.” (09/23/25)

https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19952