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Moore: Dems’ plan to send Medicare into freefall
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Political pros will remember that a dozen or so years ago, the Democrats produced a famous (or infamous) TV ad showing a man wheeling an elderly lady in a wheelchair up a path to an overlook on a mountain. At the end of the ad, the man pushes the woman out of her chair and off the cliff. The person pushing the wheelchair was a lookalike of Paul Ryan, the then-Republican speaker of the House.
Moore: 3 easy ways to reduce pain at the pump
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’ve always argued that the easiest way for families to gauge the health of the economy is to check the daily gas price. Drivers see the 50-foot-high signs in every community in America. They stare us right in the face. I call it the affordability index. In recent weeks, gas prices have hit $4.50 a gallon nationally, and truckers are paying well over $6 a gallon. That’s a bad look with a month to go before midterm elections across the country.
Moore: Calling out Al Gore for inconvenient tales
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was 20 years ago that Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” was published, and … well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient — for Al and his band of apocalyptics. I asked my team to use the AI chatbot ChatGPT as a referee in assessing the accuracy of the book’s scary and often-quoted conclusions. It turns out ChatGPT is very diplomatic.
Moore: Marriage deficit an economic catastrophe
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Beatles told us: “All you need is love.” They were right, but along with love must come marriage. But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men. A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement. — In 2025, nearly twice as many men ages 18 to 39 were unmarried as were married.
Moore: How to waste $9T to not save the planet
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The world has spent $9 trillion to combat climate change since 2020. That is a World War II-type number. Except we won WWII. But now even the left admits that this torrent of money has accomplished … nothing.
Moore: Stop Dems’ scheme to pack Supreme Court
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Democrats are in a quandary over the Supreme Court. Every four years, they’ve warned their voters that electing a Republican president will lead to more conservative Supreme Court justices. And yet since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 through today, they’ve lost more presidential elections than they’ve won. Maybe the voters are telling Democrats something. So now the left is angry over the tilt of the court, which has six conservatives and three liberals.
Moore: Net Zero is dead and gone
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was only a few years ago when the climate change alarms and green energy fad were all the rage at the White House and corporate board rooms. Former President Joe Biden’s policies were all tilted to ending fossil fuels, and many of America’s biggest corporations embraced the concept of net-zero fossil fuels.
Moore: Lessons learned from the Fauci fiasco
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools and country. We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul’s doggedness and Anthony Fauci’s supreme arrogance that he freely expresses in his diary, almost every decision made by the medical industrial complex was exactly the wrong thing to do. So what have we learned — or what should we have learned?
Moore: What I learned from data center visit
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A “cloud,” by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else ever written, invented or retrievable online.
Moore: Why NY’s losses are gains for Texas
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The New York Stock Exchange opened its doors over 230 years ago. It has been one of the iconic symbols of America’s economic might for more than two centuries. But for how much longer? Now the challenge for supremacy isn’t coming from London or Tokyo or Hong Kong or Beijing. It’s coming from Texas. The Wall Street Journal reported in recent days that the Texas Stock Exchange is now officially open for business, and trading is expected to start soon.
Moore: JD Vance sounding like economic RINO
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump’s vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he’s favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders. That’s why his latest deep-dive interview on his views on the economy is highly disturbing.
MOORE: Democrats declare war on school choice
Penelope Koutoulas holds signs supporting school choice in a House committee meeting on education during a special session of the Tennessee legislature on Jan. 28, 2025, in Nashville. | George Walker IV / AP Photo Why are Democrats and their teachers union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education even when we now have so many examples of these programs working? Choice and competition are two of the hallmarks of the American economy. When stores compete, customers win.
Moore: England’s lessons on ‘Democratic Socialism’
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you want to see modern-day socialism in action, look no further than to the other side of the pond at not-so-jolly old England. The story of Britain’s decline is a warning signal to those here in the States who are thrilled by the warm embrace of socialism. Right now, the Brits are having the same debate about the merits of socialism as we are in our major cities and blue states. In England, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the Labour Party is out.
Moore: Democrats declare war on school choice
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Why are Democrats and their teachers union masters trying to shoot down parental choice in education even when we now have so many examples of these programs working? Choice and competition are two of the hallmarks of the American economy. When stores compete, customers win. Turns out this is also true for schools. That’s an inviolable law of economics. A corollary is that monopolies tend to put customers last.
Moore: Let young workers escape from Social Security
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What cruel irony that we learned last week that Social Security is going broke even sooner than we thought. The Social Security trust fund will be exhausted in 2032, according to the latest Trustees Report. The Ponzi scheme structure of Social Security only works if you have more young people paying in than old people collecting checks, the system is crashing.
Moore and Kerpen: Why would Republicans back forced unionism?
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You might have thought Republicans winning Congress would put a full stop on the Democrats’ infamous PRO Act to ban right to work and force workers into unions, whether they like it or not. Yet here we are, with the so-called Faster Labor Contracts Act. The bill would revive key parts of the PRO Act to empower unelected bureaucrats to override the decisions of employers and employees, mandating binding contracts on a government-imposed timeline.
Moore: Trump’s critics dead wrong on economy
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the left who throughout Donald Trump’s now-five-and-a-half years in the White House keep getting the economy dead wrong.
Moore: America needs more, not fewer, billionaires
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Billionaires are getting a bad name. “Eat the rich” is the new mantra of the Left’s greed and envy lobby. Once upon a time, we saluted and celebrated America’s empire builders who got rich but created great industries that built the richest nation on earth. Now the Left in America demonizes them.
Moore: Free the mail from US government
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Those of us of a certain age — born before about 1970 — have fond memories of the mailman (yes, that’s what we called him, not “postal carrier”) dropping off a pile of letters and cards into the mailbox down the driveway six days a week. But those days are long past. Now if we have something important to say — “I love you,” “I hate you,” “happy birthday” — we text or email or hop onto Instagram.
Moore: Who to blame for today’s high prices
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The new consumer prices report showing a 3.8% price rise in April confirms what Americans have been complaining about for months: Inflation is continuing to squeeze family budgets. It’s indisputable that oil and fertilizer supply disruptions in the Middle East are driving up prices here at home. But that’s only part of the inflation story. Consumer prices overall are up nearly 30% since COVID-19 derailed the U.S. economy six years ago.
Moore: Time for Jerome Powell to go home
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The man just won’t leave the stage. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week that he’s going to remain on the Federal Reserve Board until 2028 even as he by law surrenders his chairmanship. The announcement came even after President Donald Trump agreed to drop his unwise lawsuit against Powell for funding a $2 billion new Taj Mahal building down the street from the White House.
Moore: Hospitals, insurers get rich off medical fraud
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Polls show Americans are angry — and rightly so — at accelerating medical bills. Meanwhile, the insurers and hospitals keep raking in record profits. UnitedHealthcare just reported jumbo profits so far in 2026, and in 2025 they recorded revenues of more than $400 billion. They are raking in profits from the $1.9 trillion in federal healthcare programs.
Moore: Lawyers sue so shoppers can pay more
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You aren’t going to believe the latest lawsuit fad in America: suing companies as monopolistic for cutting prices to consumers. In legal mumbo jumbo, this is called “predatory pricing” — keeping prices lower than charged by competitors. The idea is to keep prices so low that rival firms can’t compete. Quick, throw Walmart, Home Depot and McDonald’s in jail. This is no joke.
STEPHEN MOORE | Votes can deliver the right to water
When politicians show you who they are, believe them, and do not forget. More than an exceptional own goal, Panyaza Lesufi’s “hotel shower” choices ought to be the last straw for the millions of Gauteng residents facing the daily indignity of dry taps, especially those who have not voted in previous elections. The ANC in Gauteng has presided over millions of people losing access to water while creating an environment for the water tanker mafia to extort already suffering South Africans.
Moore: Price controls will deny credit cards to many
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s a famous scene in the movie “The Graduate” in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: “plastics.” He wasn’t talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been. Back in the 1960s only about half of Americans had credit cards. Today about 90% of us do. This revolution in the way we pay for things benefits everyone: shoppers, retailers, online companies, banks, recordkeepers and so on.
Moore: Trump’s tax cuts benefit the middle class
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Democrats keep attacking President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 as a tax cut for the rich. But the data show that the average family gained roughly $2,000 on their lower tax bill for this year. Every Democrat in Congress voted no, even as they complain of a “middle-class affordability crisis.” Maybe that’s because to rich and famous limousine liberal Democrats, $2,000 is peanuts. But not for the rest of us.
Moore: GOP can win on health care affordability
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care? The answer has been pretty much the same: Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin. When I’ve asked my Republican politicos why that is, the answer I typically receive is: Our party doesn’t do health care.
Moore: 5 things to know about energy policy
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy-turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil in recent weeks, here are a few facts about the energy scene. First, “drill, baby, drill” is working. America today is producing more oil and gas than ever. Over the past six years, we’ve produced more than any other nation, including Saudi Arabia.
Moore: Don’t let Congress ruin college sports
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Should the revenues made by big-time college athletics be “shared” by all the schools? Do we want “revenue-sharing” socialism to come to college football and basketball? Many in Congress are answering yes to that question. The NCAA isn’t the massive moneymaker the NFL and NBA are, but in many ways the product is more exciting than the boring professional leagues. That’s especially true in this month of March, when the hoops madness begins.
Moore: Subsidies killed the EV industry
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here’s a depressing but predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: “Detroit’s EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion.” Once again, we have confirmation of an iron law of economics: If you want to kill an industry, subsidize it.
Moore: Climate change $$ doesn’t add up
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. And for what? Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.
Moore: Dow’s 50,000 hit a supply-side miracle
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I first arrived in Washington in 1982, the Dow Jones hit a low of 800. You may not believe that, so feel free to look it up. If anyone had predicted that in a little more four decades the Dow would surpass 50,000, they might have been admitted into a mental institution. But U.S. stocks have grown 60-fold (not counting inflation). Even accounting for inflation, the Dow is up about 12-fold.
Tax-happy Dems give blue states a bruising
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Democrats circa 2026 have almost become tax-and-spend parodies of themselves. They used to pretend that raising taxes was a last resort. Now, the leftwing base regards raising taxes as a badge of honor. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared that he has no other choice but to raise taxes on the rich and corporations because there aren’t enough savings from efficiencies in agency budgets.
Moore: Are real estate investors really the bad guys?
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Americans today are justifiably angry about the price of rents and mortgages. Home prices have roughly tripled over the last 25 years, and the median home price is now $415,000. The 30- and 40-somethings are having a tough time buying a first home. Young families may need to pay a whopping $75,000 on a down payment.
Moore: Stop pretending colleges are nonprofit institutions
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here’s a recent story from the Chicago Tribune: Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit “educational” entity. Northwestern — an “institution of higher learning” located outside of Chicago — has an endowment of nearly $15 billion, and the tax-free donations keep flowing in.
Moore: Trump must repeal Biden’s biz tax hike
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden-era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, Green New Deal mandates and electric vehicle mandates — to name a few.
Why Hasn’t Trump Repealed Biden’s $50 Billion Backdoor Business Tax Increase? | U. S. Politics | Before It's News
The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, the Green New Deal mandates, and electric vehicle mandates – to name a few.
Moore: Things are looking up, thanks to Trump
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’ve been shocked that Americans are in such a grumpy mood as reflected in all the public opinion polls. What a paradox: At the same time, we have peace and prosperity, including more income, more wealth, more of almost everything that we want to buy (yes, except for housing), Americans seem to think we have an “affordability crisis.” In 2025 the median household income in the United States has risen to more than $86,000 a year — an all-time high.
Moore: Poor math, reading scores an economic crisis
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy levels increased from 16% in 2017 to 25% in 2023, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. In some inner-city schools, less than half of kids are reading or doing math at grade-level proficiency.
Moore: Trump can help boost Argentina’s comeback
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country’s economy great again. Trump was all in on helping Milei win his elections earlier this year, and he has also offered the Argentines a $20 billion “lifeline” as they adjust to the bumpy path to needed free-market reforms.
Moore: Worried about ‘affordability?’ Get a job
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Polls show that the age group of Americans most worried about “affordability” are the 20- and 30-somethings. That’s young millennials and Gen Z. Why are they so financially stressed out? One reason things seem so unaffordable to young people is that too many aren’t working hard — they are hardly working. The latest Labor Department data indicate that fewer and fewer males between the ages 16 and 24 are in the labor force.
Moore: Time to stop the trial lawyer tax
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Trial lawyers have been the bane of U.S. employers for many decades. The most famous case was back in the 1990s when the courts awarded a $500,000 judgment to a McDonald’s customer who claimed she was burned by coffee that was too scalding hot. Then there was the Washington man who sued a dry cleaner for $50 million for losing a pair of pants.
Moore: Want lower prices? Move to a red state
The buzzword of the month is “affordability,” and based on the election results from New York, New Jersey and Virginia, voters think that’s declining. Democrats think they’ve found a winning issue here to win back the hearts and minds of voters after the Trump sweep last year. It’s true that people are angry about prices. Steaks and hamburgers are more expensive than ever. So are coffee and rents and medical care.
Moore: Bill Gates got mugged by reality
You’ve probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. For several decades, Gates poured billions of dollars into the climate-industrial complex and was howling that the end is nigh unless we stop using fossil fuels, cars, air conditioning and general anesthesia. Now he says he rejects the “doomsday” predictions of the more extreme global warming prophets.
Moore: Deposit insurance for billionaires? No thanks
Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories. Maybe that’s why they so seldom learn from their sometimes catastrophic mistakes. It was less than 20 years ago that the U.S. economy was flattened by the mortgage and banking crisis. The experts said that the odds were tiny that the housing market could crash; that the federal housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would never need a bailout; that mortgage-backed securities were as good as gold.
Moore, Simon: Catastrophic health insurance for all would lower $$
The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsidize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. The Wall Street Journal reports that regardless of how that fiscal tug-of- war turns out, health insurance premiums paid by Americans are expected to rise another 8% or 9% next year.
Moore: Stop the UN global climate tax on US ships
Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law. This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on cargo and cruise ships that carry $20 trillion of merchandise over international waters. Roughly 80% of the bulkage of world trade is transported by ship.
Electronic spectrum sale enhances economy, national security
By STEPHEN MOORE A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions. Selling this additional 600 to 800 megahertz of bandwidth to the private sector will enable the U.S. to expand 5G and even 6G technology, ensuring American dominance in internet, artificial intelligence and satellite technologies.
Moore: Another tax revolt may be around the corner
Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future rate increases. This was the tax cut that saved California, helping ignite the go-go days of Silicon Valley and build what are now trillion-dollar companies.
Moore: Stop the IRS’s stealth $700B tax increase
President Donald Trump has done an admirable job at defanging the IRS, which was converted into a weaponized agency targeting Democrats’ political enemies. Chief Justice John Marshall famously pronounced early in our nation’s history that “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.” The Democrats inside the Biden IRS took that to heart. They hired thousands of new IRS agents to harass businesses, rich people and, in some cases, Republican donors.
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