Stupid State Stories

Elon Musk just became the first trillionaire then settled back to ~$947B. Schrödinger's billionaire. Washington finally has the boogeyman it needs. The mathing on why Warren and Sanders' wealth-tax proposals don't work, and why they sell votes anyway. The printer never stops going "brrrrr." Sources: forbes.com/profile/elon-musk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Millionaire_Tax_Act_of_2021 en.wikipedia.o...

Thomas Massie (R-KY), 8-term congressman, lost his primary on May 19, 2026 to Trump-backed sock puppet Ed Gallrein. The most expensive House primary in US history $32M+ in ad spending BBB Adds ~$3T to national debt over a decade Only Congress makes war H.Con. Res.38 Pentagon conceded no evidence of imminent Iranian strike Massie pushed for release of files which may implicate the elite. Hasn't rul...

Chuck and Megan try to untangle Schrödinger's ceasefire , a confusing Middle East agreement that is somehow simultaneously happening and not happening. We also examine Lindsey Graham's unique interpretation of war powers, where he essentially treats the Constitution's mandate for congressional approval like a decorative throw pillow . Meanwhile, normal shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has...

https://reason.com/2026/03/06/jobs-are-down-while-the-u-s-spends-2-billion-a-day-on-war-with-iran/ https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/02/24/proposal-to-create-counterintelligence-unit-receives-bipartisan-pushback/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://reason.com/2026/03/06/the-federal-government-was-told-to-make-a-list-of-everything-it-funds-15-years-later-there-still-isnt-one/

• ICE Legal Observer Added to Terrorist Database https://reason.com/2026/01/23/ice-tells-legal-observer-we-have-a-nice-little-database-and-now-youre-considered-a-domestic-terrorist/ • WH Domestic Terrorism Memo Sept 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/ • Arrested for Observing ICE https://slate.com/news-and-pol...

- The U.S. Navy under Trump: A Tool of Modern Piracy - Global Research - Assange's war crimes accusation: Nobel Prize faces criminal complaint over 2025 winner - Natural News - Donald Trump's squeeze on Venezuela - The Week - How oil, drugs and immigration fueled Trump's Venezuela campaign - Times of India

America's longest government shutdown shows why we must free air traffic control from politics Congressman Thomas Massie's Official Website - Information on his work to reform the appropriations process and restore regular order in government spending Congress Should Pass 12 Separate Spending Bills, Not Omnibus - Analysis supporting Massie's approach to budget reform

- [The War on Poverty After 50 years]( https://www.cato.org/policy-report/may/june-2015/war-poverty-after-fifty-years ) - [EconTalk: Robert Chitester]( https://www.econlib.org/econtalk-with-bob-chitester/ ) - [The Ballad of Price Controls]( https://redcircle.com/shows/nebuphony/ep/63d2b1ca-b763-4edf-84fe-a264fa4fa99c ) - [Food Stamps and Mises’ Theory of Intervention]( https://mises.org/mises-wire...

Occupational Licensing Hours required to braid hair AMA Flight 328 The Machinery of Freedom

https://www.influencewatch.org/labor-union/national-education-association-nea/ https://fee.org/articles/power-grab-how-the-national-education-association-is-betraying-our-children/

FDA Delays Patients’ Access to a New Alzheimer’s Treatment Profits and Drugs Price Controls for Medicines Risk Harming Innovation A Blueprint for FDA Reform An FDA Report Card

That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen https://mises.org/articles-interest/which-seen-and-which-not-seen https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-beltways-energy-transition-relies-on-the-broken-window-fallacy/

Basic Economics Taxation, Forced Labor, and Theft The Ethics of Liberty

Real ID - bringing 2005 to you with a side of authoritarian inconvenience. https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-id-not-about-keeping-you-safe https://reason.com/2023/03/31/tsas-biometric-screening-may-not-be-optional-for-long/

From one ribbon cutting ceremony to the next, Public Choice explains why we can't have nice systems. But don't take it from us, Mike Munger wrote the book on Public Choice Is Capitalism Sustainable? https://amzn.to/44uEtYl https://rzadek.medium.com/mike-munger-is-taking-public-choice-seriously-e4832ffdd649 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRNjQP3UuAY&ab_channel=AustralianTaxpayers%27Alliance

DOGE cuts violently, while congress spends more than ever. https://reason.com/2025/03/12/the-houses-budget-bill-cuts-earmarks-but-spending-will-be-going-up-anyway/ https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/trump-massie-feud-highlights-gop-refusal-to-get-serious-about-spending/

This St. Patrick's day, remember: Tariffs are taxes. https://reason.com/2025/03/15/pour-one-out-for-purchasing-power-this-st-patricks-day/ https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fiscal-economic-and-distributional-effects-20-tariffs-china-and-25-tariffs-canada-and-mexico

"Why, sometimes I’ve devalued six currencies before breakfast!" boasted the Mad Chairman, tipping his hat to the Fed's fine feast of fiscal folly.

D.S.T. is D.U.M.B. https://www.standardtime.com/proposal.html https://enddaylightsavingtime.org/

Hallucinations of Critical State Theory