Congress Uses COVID-19 As a Cover For an Epidemic of Fiscal Recklessness

If you're having trouble viewing this email, you can view it in a browser here.     The latest news and analysis from Reason.com Wednesday, March 17, 2021     The Education Establishment Fears You Might Teach Your Kids Unapproved Ideas Public schools can barely teach kids at all, but their defenders don’t want you trying alternatives. By J.D. Tuccille   Biden's Planned Corporate Tax Hike Will Cost Jobs and Reduce Economic Growth. Because That's What Taxes Do. The White House is reportedly considering hiking the corporate income tax to 28 percent and raising individual income taxes on high earners to pay for more federal spending. By Eric Boehm   sponsor content     Congress Uses COVID-19 As a Cover For an Epidemic of Fiscal Recklessness Legislators view the disease as a license to spend like there’s no tomorrow. By Jacob Sullum   Ohio Challenges Constitutionality of American Rescue Plan Act "The Tax Mandate thus gives the States a choice: they can have either the badly needed federal funds or their sovereign authority to set state tax policy. But they cannot have both. In our current economic crisis, that is no choice at all. It is a metaphorical 'gun to the head.'" By Josh Blackman   A New 'War on Terror' Would Be Just as Disastrous as the Original "We don't need to use a faulty model and apply it to the very real terrorism problem that we have at home," says terrorism expert Max Abrahms. By Zach Weissmueller   'The Best Chief in America,' Newly Hired To Run Miami's Police Department, Presided Over Deadly Corruption in Houston Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation. By Jacob Sullum   Massage Parlor Massacre: 8 Killed in Atlanta, Media Speculate About Anti-Asian Motive The motive for the shooting is still unclear despite many in the media attributing it to anti-Asian racism. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown   Important New Lawsuit Challenges Attempted Racial Balancing at Prominent Selective Virginia Public High School The case could set an important precedent because it addresses facially neutral attempts at racial balancing, and because the school in question is currently over 70% Asian-American, and new policy seeks to reduce that percentage. By Ilya Somin   Texas Senators Want Sports Teams To Shut Up and Play the Anthem State senators introduced a bill requiring the national anthem at all pro sports events. By Jason Russell   London NIMBYs and YIMBYs Unite To Build More Housing Could allowing blocks to upzone themselves end the most intractable feud in urban development? By John Myers   sponsor content     Donate Reason Foundation 5737 Mesmer Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90230, USA Privacy Policy   Manage Your Preferences Unsubscribe