States Are Right to Compete for the Data Center Boom
Compute is the industrial base of the next economy, and the states winning it are doing what smart industrial policy has always done.
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Stop Writing Blank Checks to the Richest Companies on Earth
Data center incentives hand public money and public water to trillion-dollar firms while ratepayers cover the grid bill. Communities deserve a better deal.
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A Wealth Tax Is a Machine for Capital Destruction
Taxing unrealized paper values would punish the investment that builds companies, misfire on valuation, and raise far less than promised. Europe already ran this experiment.
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Tax Fortunes, Not Just Paychecks
When the largest fortunes in history compound untouched while wages carry the tax code, a wealth tax isn't radical. It's overdue arithmetic.
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Free College Is a Subsidy in Search of a Problem
Zero tuition taxes the plumber to underwrite the consultant, hides costs instead of cutting them, and crowds out the vocational paths the economy is starving for.
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Public College Should Cost What Public School Costs: Nothing
We decided a century ago that high school was public infrastructure. The economy moved; the promise didn't. Free public college finishes the thought.
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