In the City Journal, E.J. McMahon bemoans New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s plan to distribute “inflation refunds” of surplus sales tax revenue to middle/lower-income state residents. Inflation-indexing the state’s income tax code, McMahon notes, would be fairer and more effective – as well as ongoing – but instead Hochul is doling out one-time cash to her voting base.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
