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Today, the Florida legislature is meeting in a special session to consider oafish brute governor Ron Desantis’s proposal to slash the state’s property taxes. Currently, Florida residents can exempt $50,000 of their primary home’s value from taxation...

There are only a few reasons why you might be hired for a prestigious job that you are obviously not qualified for. One is “they have recognized you for the genius that you are.” The urge to conclude that this is, in fact, the reason must be overwhelming...

They say that the Age of Exploration is over. Everything out there has already been discovered. We’ve been to the top of Everest and the bottom of the Marianas Trench; we’ve staggered to the North Pole and frozen at the South; we’ve trekked from East...

Jeff Bezos (net worth: $275 billion), like John D. Rockefeller handing out shiny dimes, says that the bottom half of American earners should pay no income tax. This offers us a good opportunity to clarify and hold prominently in our minds the underlying...