Each edition of The Divide takes one contested question and publishes two columns side by side — one argued from the right, one from the left. Both work from the same public facts. Neither is labeled correct. The point is not balance for its own sake; it is showing readers how each side actually builds its case.
Data center incentives hand public money and public water to trillion-dollar firms while ratepayers cover the grid bill. Communities deserve a better deal.
Compute is the industrial base of the next economy, and the states winning it are doing what smart industrial policy has always done.
When the largest fortunes in history compound untouched while wages carry the tax code, a wealth tax isn't radical. It's overdue arithmetic.
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.
We decided a century ago that high school was public infrastructure. The economy moved; the promise didn't. Free public college finishes the thought.
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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