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George Will argues eloquently that the Janus decision is a welcome blow to coerced speech. Here’s his conclusion:

There is no sugarcoating today’s reality. Public-sector unions are conveyor belts that move a portion of government employees’ salaries — some of the amount paid in union dues — into political campaigns, almost always Democrats’, to elect the people with whom the unions “negotiate” for taxpayers’ money. Progressives who are theatrically distraught about there being “too much money in politics” are now theatrically distraught that the court has ended coercing contributions that have flowed to progressive candidates.

Gary Galles writes of another, related-to-Janus United States Supreme Court decision from this past term.

Brittany Hunter rightly says that it’s time to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

John Goodman explains that Obamacare can be worse than Medicare.

Caroline Baum writes that:

In his frequent tirades on immigrants, President Donald J. Trump distorts the facts, invents statistics and relies on inflammatory language to describe those who leave their country of origin to seek a better life in the United States. And he completely ignores the positive role immigrants play in the U.S. economy.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is much more courageous than nearly all of his other Congressional colleagues in standing up to the military-industrial complex.

My colleague Alex Tabarrok applauds the great work being done by the Institute for Justice.

Tariffs Punitive taxes on fellow citizens who buy imports are, strictly speaking, not pro-business. They are pro- some businesses and anti- other businesses. (And of course, they are always anti-consumer.)

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