NJ spent years: "Buy an EV! Tax exemption! Save the planet!"
NJ in 2024: eliminates EV tax exemption, adds $250/year EV registration fee.
NJ in 2026: signs order against junk fees, specifically calling out retroactive fee changes on goods consumers already purchased.
The CFPB literally lists that as a junk fee. We’re not making this up.
#NJJunkFees #EO19
Seattle's insane minimum wage (currently $21) experiment delivered exactly what the free market predicted - entry-level jobs vanished. Restaurants automated ordering systems, retailers cut hours, and small businesses discovered they could function with fewer workers. The city council celebrated "progress" while teenagers found themselves competing with college graduates for the remaining positions.
You can mandate higher wages, but you cannot mandate higher productivity. When government forces employers to pay $21 for $10 worth of output, those jobs disappear into thin air. The workers who need experience most - young people, immigrants, those with gaps in their résumé - get locked out entirely.
Politicians sell minimum wage hikes as compassion. What they deliver is economic segregation (the connected get jobs, the rest get welfare applications).
Remember when the GOP gave Elon Musk a standing ovation in front of the American people...
...and then only voted on 1 DOGE cut, didn't defund the Taliban, gave $315 MILLION to a far Left group that DOGE defunded, and NEVER passed the SAVE ACT?
I don't understand the GOP...
💥NEW: Jillian Michaels: "The reality is that when you give gay people a MONTH and veterans a DAY, I think you have WILDLY lost sight of your values and your priorities."
“Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money... What produces it is too much government spending and too much government creation of money and nothing else.”
— Milton Friedman