On Tuesday night, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the United States had rescued all the hostages kept by the socialist Venezuelan Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas.
Those five hostages were members of the opposition to Nicholas Maduro’s brutal regime. “The government of Argentine President Javier Milei allowed the five people into the ambassador’s residence in March 2024, when authorities loyal to Venezuela’s ruling party issued warrants for their arrest, accusing them of promoting acts of violence to destabilize the country,” The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/06/venezuela-argentina-caracas-political-opposition-us-rubio/9ee7c378-2ada-11f0-a724-3bc879c9f843_story.html">reported</a>, adding, “Since late November, the group had denounced the constant presence of intelligence service agents and police outside the residence.”
“The U.S. welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas,” Rubio wrote on X. “Following a precise operation, all hostages are now safely on U.S. soil. Maduro&#8217;s illegitimate regime has undermined Venezuela&#8217;s institutions, violated human rights, and endangered our regional security. We extend our gratitude to all personnel involved in this operation and to our partners who assisted in securing the safe liberation of these Venezuelan heroes.”
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The U.S. welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas. 
Following a precise operation, all hostages are now safely on U.S. soil. Maduro&#39;s illegitimate regime has undermined Venezuela&#39;s institutions, violated human…
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In January, Milei met with exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia in Casa Rosada, declaring him the Venezuelan “president elect.”
“Venezuelans, we will also meet in the streets of our beloved country,” González Urrutia wrote on X.
After the meeting, the Argentine government called González Urrutia “Venezuela’s president-elect,” adding he “is under political persecution by the regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro,” the Buenos Aires Herald <a href="https://buenosairesherald.com/world/international-relations/milei-calls-urrutia-venezuelas-president-elect-as-tension-with-caracas-skyrockets">reported</a>.
Maduro was declared the winner of the July 2024 presidential election in Venezuela by the National Electoral Council, while the opposition claimed that they were the winners. Milei wrote on X, “Venezuelans have chosen to end Nicolás Maduro&#8217;s communist dictatorship. The data indicates a crushing victory for the opposition, and the world awaits its recognition of defeat after years of socialism, misery, decadence, and death. Argentina will not acknowledge another fraud, and expects the Armed Forces to defend democracy and the popular will this time.”
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DICTADOR MADURO, AFUERA!!!
Los venezolanos eligieron terminar con la dictadura comunista de Nicolás Maduro. Los datos anuncian una victoria aplastante de la oposición y el mundo aguarda que reconozca la derrota luego de años de socialismo, miseria, decadencia y muerte.…
&mdash; Javier Milei (@JMilei) <a href="https://twitter.com/JMilei/status/1817760569404842400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When González Urrutia met with Milei, he gave him a framed voting tally showing he had won.

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Reactions from around the world poured in after Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88.
Shortly after the news broke, the White House posted &#8220;Rest In Peace&#8221; alongside photos of Francis meeting with both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Vance met with Francis at the Vatican for about twenty minutes on Easter Sunday.
&#8220;Rest in Peace Pope Francis! May God Bless him and all who loved him!&#8221; President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114375838396081159" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social.
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Rest in Peace, Pope Francis. ✝️ <a href="https://t.co/8CGwKaNnTh">pic.twitter.com/8CGwKaNnTh</a>
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&#8220;I just learned of the passing of Pope Francis. My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him. I was happy to see him yesterday, though he was obviously very ill. But I’ll always remember him for the below homily he gave in the very early days of COVID. It was really quite beautiful. May God rest his soul,&#8221; Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1914239114406191255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X, sharing a link to a message on prayer delivered by Pope Francis on March 27, 2020.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared a similar message.
&#8220;On Easter Monday, Jeanette and I are saddened to the news of Pope Francis&#8217; passing. We unite in prayer with Catholics worldwide for the repose of the pontiff&#8217;s soul and for this period of transition for the Catholic Church. May He rest in peace,&#8221; Rubio <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1914282184044577021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Argentinian President Javier Milei also offered condolences. Francis was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was the first pope from Latin America.
&#8220;It is with profound sorrow that I learned this sad morning that Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, passed away today and is now resting in peace. Despite differences that seem minor today, having been able to know him in his kindness and wisdom was a true honor for me. As President, as an Argentine, and, fundamentally, as a man of faith, I bid farewell to the Holy Father and stand with all of us who are today dealing with this sad news,&#8221; Milei posted, according to a translation.
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Other world leaders also reacted to the news.
&#8220;Pope Francis has returned to the house of the Father. This news saddens us deeply, because a great man and a great pastor have left us. I had the privilege of enjoying his friendship, his advice and his teachings, which never failed even in moments of trial and suffering,&#8221; Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni <a href="https://x.com/GiorgiaMeloni/status/1914239044885569647" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X, according to translation. &#8220;We greet the Holy Father with hearts full of sadness, but we know that he is now in the peace of the Lord.&#8221;
&#8220;We mourn the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis — a shepherd who led with courage &amp; unwavering faith. Twice, we had the honour of welcoming him to Hungary,&#8221; Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted. 
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🕯️ We mourn the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pontifex</a> &#8211; a shepherd who led with courage &amp; unwavering faith. Twice, we had the honour of welcoming him to Hungary. His prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Hungary, still resonates: “Instil into the hearts of… <a href="https://t.co/xZuqeZtHt1">pic.twitter.com/xZuqeZtHt1</a>
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&#8220;Deeply pained by the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. In this hour of grief and remembrance, my heartfelt condolences to the global Catholic community. Pope Francis will always be remembered as a beacon of compassion, humility and spiritual courage by millions across the world,&#8221; India Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X. &#8220;I fondly recall my meetings with him and was greatly inspired by his commitment to inclusive and all-round development. His affection for the people of India will always be cherished. May his soul find eternal peace in God’s embrace.&#8221;
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Deeply pained by the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. In this hour of grief and remembrance, my heartfelt condolences to the global Catholic community. Pope Francis will always be remembered as a beacon of compassion, humility and spiritual courage by millions across the… <a href="https://t.co/QKod5yTXrB">pic.twitter.com/QKod5yTXrB</a>
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&#8220;Deeply saddened to hear of the death of His Holiness Pope Francis. His tireless efforts to promote a world that is fairer for all will leave a lasting legacy. On behalf of the people of the United Kingdom, I share my sincerest condolences to the whole Catholic Church,&#8221; British Prime Minister Meir Starmer posted on social media.
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Argentinian conservative President Javier Milei has agreed to unseal records hidden for decades that would reveal how Credit Suisse and its predecessor banks helped finance escaping Nazis after World War II so they could evade justice.
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El Presidente Javier Milei recibió en Casa Rosada a las autoridades del Centro Simon Wiesenthal, quienes le entregaron una carta del Comité Judicial del Senado de los Estados Unidos, con copia al Presidente Donald Trump, para que la Argentina colabore con su investigación al… <a href="https://t.co/nKciEwl8HR">pic.twitter.com/nKciEwl8HR</a>
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In mid-February, Iowa GOP Sen. Charles Grassley —who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee investigating Credit Suisse’s historical Nazi connections — sent Milei a letter requesting him to unseal the records. “I continue to fight to shine light on the wrongs and injustices from this darkest chapter in history,” Grassley wrote. “This includes decades-long efforts to track the Nazis’ confiscation of all kinds of Jewish valuables and cash.”
Speaking of former U.S. Inspector General Neil Barofsky, who was appointed as the Independent Ombudsperson to comprehensively investigate Credit Suisse&#8217;s archives, he stated, “Despite the banks&#8217; best efforts at obstruction, Mr. Barofsky has uncovered a ‘significant connection’ between Credit Suisse and many individuals who helped Nazis flee Europe after World War II via ‘ratlines,’ which are monetary and logistic pathways used by Credit Suisse and other institutions to help Nazis escape justice and relocate to Argentina, among other countries.”
Barofsky <a href="https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/nazi-ties-to-credit-suisse-ran-deeper-than-was-known-hidden-files-reveal-285ab620">had been hired</a> by Credit Suisse in 2021 after the Simon Wiesenthal Center found additional information regarding the possible Nazi connection, but he was fired when the bank felt he had gone too far. He was reinstated in 2023 after Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) rescued Credit Suisse. In 2024, Barofsky told the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that UBS had fully opened its archives. Two separate panels said that Swiss bankers routinely ignored Nazis stealing Jewish assets and also later blocked families’ efforts to reclaim their money.
“The goal and motivation behind this work is to bring about justice and transparency,” Grassley continued. “Regardless of how much time passes, the truth is worth pursuing and the stories of this dark time period are worth telling and making part of the historical record for future generations. &#8230; I&#8217;m copying President Trump on this letter because my investigative work is being done out of profound respect for the brave and courageous men and women of the United States Armed Forces who fought against Hitler and the Nazis, and freed the courageous Jewish people from those evils &#8211; a sentiment that he would most assuredly agree with.”
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At Senator Grassley’s request, President Milei agreed to open Argentina&#8217;s archives so the world can finally see how Swiss banks helped fund and coordinate Nazis escaping Europe after the war, then covered it up for decades.
Yet another example of the global financial system…
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On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Elon Musk waved a chainsaw bequeathed him by Argentina&#8217;s President Javier Milei at the event, proclaiming, &#8220;This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.”
Milei has been cutting the Argentinian budget successfully; his austerity measures gave the country its <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-logs-first-financial-surplus-14-years-2024-2025-01-17/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first budget surplus</a> in more than ten years in 2024. Argentina had a budget surplus of 1.76 trillion pesos, and the primary fiscal balance rose to a 10.41 trillion peso surplus.
At CPAC, Milei walked onstage with the chainsaw and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/musk-chainsaw-trump-doge-6568e9e0cfc42ad6cdcfd58a409eb312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handed it</a> to Musk. The chainsaw was engraved with a motto Milei has embraced, “Viva la libertad, carajo,” which means, “Long live liberty, damn it.”
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This is so epic. The president of Argentina <a href="https://twitter.com/JMilei?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JMilei</a> presents Elon Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> with a golden chainsaw.
A chainsaw to CUT bureaucracy. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 <a href="https://t.co/wJCIJfhMjJ">pic.twitter.com/wJCIJfhMjJ</a>
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Elon Musk, the billionaire tasked with slashing US federal government spending, took to the stage at a conservative conference outside Washington with a gift from Argentina&#39;s libertarian President Javier Milei: a chainsaw <a href="https://t.co/FaLbmPS4yG">https://t.co/FaLbmPS4yG</a> <a href="https://t.co/2x0rjGq2Sj">pic.twitter.com/2x0rjGq2Sj</a>
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Musk <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/20/elon-musk-waives-chainsaw-before-giving-doge-update-at-cpac/79352970007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on why he had decided to throw in with the Republican Party, saying, “I thought we were sort of heading to a point of no return, really. And so that&#8217;s why it was so essential that President Trump won the election and that there be a Republican majority in the House and Senate, which, thanks to you, has been accomplished.”
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“We need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is freedom and opportunity,” he said, adding later, “We&#8217;re fighting the matrix big time here. It&#8217;s got to be done.”
“I wasn&#8217;t really that interested in being political. It’s just like there was at a certain point no choice,” Musk <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chainsaw-wielding-elon-musk-makes-dark-maga-appearance-javier-milei-cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The actions that we’re taking, with the support of the president and the support of the agencies, is what will save Medicare, what will save Social Security. &#8230; That&#8217;s the reason I&#8217;m doing this. Because I was looking at the big picture here and it&#8217;s like, man, it&#8217;s getting out of control.”
“A country is no different from a person,” he continued. “Country overspends, a country goes bankrupt in the same way as a person who overspends usually goes bankrupt. So, it&#8217;s not like optional to solve these things, it&#8217;s essential.”
Criticizing the Biden administration’s actions on immigration, he stated, “You don&#8217;t actually have to assume some grand conspiracy, you just need to look at basic incentives. If the probability [is] that an illegal is going to vote Democrat at some point … then the incentive is to maximize the number of illegals in the country. That is why the Biden administration was pushing to get in as many illegals as possible and spent every dollar possible to get as many [as they could] because every one of them is a customer.”
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Argentinian President Javier Milei gave Trump adviser Elon Musk a chainsaw backstage at CPAC in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
During his 2023 campaign, Milei held up a chainsaw during a political rally as he promised to cut government waste and address the country&#8217;s inflation crisis. Musk, who has been preaching a similar message in the U.S., has been advising President Donald Trump on areas to drastically cut government spending.
Milei posted a video on X of Musk receiving his gift, writing, &#8220;Llegó la motosierra a DOGE&#8230;!!! The Chainsaw has arrived at DOGE&#8230;!!!&#8221; Musk then posed with Milei while holding the chainsaw.
The chainsaw was emblazoned with the phrase, &#8220;VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO,&#8221; which translates to &#8220;LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT!&#8221; — Milei&#8217;s campaign slogan.
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Llegó la motosierra a DOGE&#8230;!!! The Chainsaw has arrived at DOGE&#8230;!!!
VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO Cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> <a href="https://t.co/jr7vwwGFKU">pic.twitter.com/jr7vwwGFKU</a>
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Musk later appeared on stage at CPAC wearing sunglasses and a black Make America Great Again hat. Shortly after he walked out on the stage, Musk was followed by Milei carrying the chainsaw.
&#8220;This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!&#8221; Musk said, holding the power tool up in the air.
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Musk has been tasked by President Trump, along with the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to look into multiple government agencies and suggest major cuts or even complete agency overhauls. The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-musk-is-not-the-doge-administrator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this week that Musk &#8220;is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator,&#8221; but &#8220;is a Senior Advisor to the President.&#8221; Musk, however, often touts DOGE&#8217;s work.
During a Q&amp;A at CPAC, Musk said, &#8220;DOGE started out as a meme, think about it,&#8221; referring to the Shiba Inu dog meme that became popular over a decade ago. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s real. Isn&#8217;t that crazy?&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get good things done, but also have a good time doing it,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;And have, like, a sense of humor.&#8221;
On Wednesday, President Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-getting-started-trump-dishes-on-doge-life-advice-and-tax-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that DOGE has &#8220;already&#8221; saved over $55 billion, adding, &#8220;We’re just getting started.&#8221;

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Argentinian President Javier Milei outlined his top six allies in the global fight for freedom in a speech last week.
Milei made the remarks during a speech on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
He said that after working to turn his country around, he no longer feels alone in the fight because Argentina is now starting to be embraced by the rest of the world.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel alone, because the world has embraced Argentina,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Argentina has become a global example of fiscal responsibility, of commitment to honoring our obligations and, obviously, a commitment to solve the inflation problem.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;Nor do I feel alone because over the course of this year, I have found allies in this fight for the ideas of freedom in every corner of the world – from the amazing Elon Musk to that fierce Italian lady, my dear Giorgia Meloni; from Bukele in El Salvador to Viktor Orbán in Hungary; from Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel to Donald Trump in the United States – slowly an international alliance has been forming among all those nations which, like ours, want to be free and believe in the ideas of liberty.&#8221;
&#8220;And slowly, what once seemed like the absolute global hegemony of the woke left in politics and educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organizations, or even in forums like Davos, has begun to crumble,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I hope for the ideas of freedom is starting to emerge.&#8221;
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Speaking at CPAC Argentina Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro argued that the country and its president, Javier Milei, have offered the world a vision for economic success.
“Argentina, the eyes of the world are on you. If you succeed, the rest of the world is going to follow you and I believe that you will succeed,” Shapiro said. “If you remain courageous and honest, liberty will succeed, because liberty must succeed.”
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Shapiro called Argentina’s economic revival “perhaps the most important political development on planet Earth at this very moment.”
“Thats thanks to the people of this country who have finally stood up and they’ve said ‘enough,’” Shapiro said. “Enough to socialist evil, enough to the impoverishment, enough to the lies, enough to the bulls***. It’s time to take a chainsaw to all of it.”
Shapiro touted Milei&#8217;s record of cutting the number of government ministries from 18 to eight, downsizing the bloated public sector, and slashing the budget by 32%, leading to Argentina reporting surpluses. He also pointed out that inflation is declining in Argentina as the stock market is skyrocketing because of Milei’s actions.
“President Milei is now leading the world forward to a new golden age of liberty,” Shapiro said. “He’s doing so with extraordinary audacity and courage.”
Shapiro’s speech was a fierce defense of free markets against socialism that destroyed the Argentine economy.
“Free markets are moral and they are just,” Shapiro said. “They reward merit. They reward hard work and solid decision making. The assumption by socialists very often is that people who succeed in society are sort of leeches, that they are the people who work the least. That isn’t true.”
Shapiro stated that socialism, at its core, stems from envy.
“Socialism encourages revolutionaries who produce literally nothing and destroy everything that they touch. It encourages laziness. It encourages stupidity and it encourages dishonesty at scale,” Shapiro went on.
“Socialism is just evil,” he added. “Socialism is the philosophy of the thief. It is the philosophy of the man who would prefer to burn everything down rather than to build anything up.”
Shapiro praised Millei for subscribing to the Austrian school of economics, which teaches that individual actions are motivated by self interest.
“President Milei is intelligent, unlike most of our political class,” Shapiro quipped.
“Argentina is a perfect example of how all of these bad ideas, when implemented, cost people their lives, cost people their livelihoods and destroy entire civilizations.”
Shapiro noted that in the early 20th century, Argentina was among the richest countries in the world. But its failure to fully develop free markets and inclusive economic institutions, coupled with decades of tyranny and corruption, set the country on a downward spiral. That downward trajectory persisted until Milei assumed leadership and addressed these long-standing issues.
“Until the rise of President Milei the government was able to basically expropriate property rights at will with impunity and the result was radical impoverishment,&#8221; Shapiro said. “If you look at the record of Argentina from 1980 to 2023, it is one of the rare countries in the West where it actually got harder to live here. In fact it took more time to work to buy basic goods in 2023 than it did in 1980.”
Milei, a supporter of strengthening relations between Argentina and the United States, told Shapiro on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/javier-milei-tells-ben-shapiro-the-ideas-of-americas-founding-fathers-will-save-argentina" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his podcast in April</a> that he believed his citizens needed to embrace the values of freedom that are values in the United States though they are under attack.
Shapiro said, however, he believes that Milei is leading the freedom movement in the world.
“Javier Milei, Argentina, you are leading the West back on to the right path,” Shapiro said.

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At CPAC Argentina, Ben Shapiro Says The World Will Follow Javier Milei’s Success

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Staunchly conservative Argentinian President Javier Milei, already forcefully revamping the ravaged Argentinian economy toward economic success, has added an effort to address men in women’s prisons, asserting he will ban it from Argentina.
On Tuesday, Milei stated, “Speaking of prisoners, I’ve got a little scoop for you. Recently, we’ve seen cases of criminals using the gender identity law to claim they’re women who should be in women’s prisons. They do this to exploit female inmates or continue their business in more relaxed conditions. Just last week, we learned that the Moros gang leader filed 10 habeas corpus to change his gender and receive male visitors. Only in a country with deeply distorted values could such absurdity be allowed.”
“That’s why we’re putting an end to this nonsense,” he declared. “We’re going to ban it. Criminals won’t be able to request prison transfers under gender identity and we’ll push for provincial prisons to adopt this policy. Those who don’t comply will only reward criminal creativity and disrespect crime victims.”
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The Argentine president said today at an event that gender changes carried out by criminals in prisons will be prohibited, since they do it to take advantage of the law, and continue committing crimes. <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@libsoftiktok</a> <a href="https://t.co/F3WflrBekZ">pic.twitter.com/F3WflrBekZ</a>
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Last April, Milei <a href="https://buenosairesherald.com/society/crime/president-milei-says-he-wants-to-create-massive-private-prisons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he wanted to sell off Argentina’s prisons built in residential areas. “We are thinking of selling those prisons to real estate companies and for those companies to fund the construction of a new one far away from the city &#8230; (the jails ) would have better security, higher quality, better services, would be bigger, and [would be built] without spending a single penny.”
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“An exchange-traded fund tracking Argentine stocks saw record inflows as Wall Street embraces President Javier Milei’s efforts to quell inflation and reverse years of endemic budget deficits,” Yahoo Finance <a href="//9C749C15-C73A-4A77-B56F-264C2955592B/On%20Monday,%20Yahoo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding that the ARGT “absorbed $144 million of inflows for the week that ended on Nov. 22, with $88 million coming in on Friday alone, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. &#8230;  The fund &#8230; saw assets jump roughly seven-fold from $104 million when Milei took office to some $750 million on Monday.”
“Milei hasn’t just talked the talk, but is actually walking the walk,” said Malcolm Dorson, senior portfolio manager at Global X Management, which manages ARGT. “He has trade balances, he has built a fiscal surplus, inflation is ticking down, and economic activity is picking up.”

‘We’re Putting An End To This Nonsense’: Milei Says He’ll Ban Men In Women’s Prisons

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We are about to see a market explosion in the Western world — if capitalism is re-embraced.
It looks as though this is about to happen. The reality is that in the United States, as in most Western countries, the debt levels are reaching the unsustainable — or have already surpassed the unsustainable. The amount of national debt currently carried by the United States is verging on $37 trillion. That means the interest we pay on the national debt will soon — if it has not already — exceed the defense budget every single year into the foreseeable future.
Most of that debt is driven by welfare programs, means-tested welfare programs, badly structured welfare programs, and entitlement programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. All of those programs are the systemic drivers of debt in the Western world.
There are only two possible solutions to this problem, and both have to be applied at once.
First: serious restructuring and cuts to spending programs in the United States. 
Second: unleashing the power of the market to increase the size of the economy, because increasing the size of the pie means larger tax revenue intake and being able to afford more, on a governmental level.
The reason I call attention to this is because what we were set for under Joe Biden and his possible successors was a period of sustained economic stagnation in the United States — before inflation set in. Biden and his team put out a prospectus on what American GDP growth would look like over the course of the next decade, and they essentially forecasted it would come in at lower than 2% from here until as far as the eye can see. That is not enough growth to sustain the sort of spending programs the United States has been undertaking for decades.
At this point, something serious needs to change.
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A look back through history shows that, quite often, ideological precursors to shifts in the United States happen elsewhere. Possibly the most famous economic example occurred in the 1970s when Chile was run by a dictator named Augusto Pinochet.
Pinochet called in several supply-side economists from the so-called Chicago School of Economics called ”The Chicago Boys.” They were devotees of Milton Friedman, the libertarian economist, and advised Pinochet. Chile subsequently outsized rates of growth after private property rights were reestablished, tax rates were lowered, and a system of law was put in place that eventually led to the downfall of Pinochet himself and the rise of the democratic state in Chile.
Milton Friedman was later asked about what happened in Chile. He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhujtDulmlg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said:</a>
<blockquote>The real miracle in Chile was not that those economic reforms worked so well. Chile is, by all odds, the best success story in Latin America today. The real miracle is not that those economic arrangements worked so well, because that&#8217;s what Adam Smith said. The real miracle is that a military junta was willing to let them do it. See, as I said to begin with, the principles of the military [are] from the top down; the principle of a market is from the bottom up. Now, it&#8217;s a real miracle that a military group was willing to let a bottom-up approach take over. … But I will say that that process led to a situation in which you were able to get [an] election which ended the military junta, and you now have a democratic government. You cannot cite any similar example from the world of entirely socialist states.</blockquote>
So what exactly happened in Chile? There were effectively three main pillars to what the Chicago boys did there. Economic liberalization, meaning fewer trade barriers; an easing of regulation; and an easier capacity to make economic arrangements. Privatization of state-owned companies, gigantic ownership of state-owned companies, was then devolved upon private citizens. And finally, stabilization of inflation took place, which meant a stop to spending money and printing money in order to keep up with inflation.
The same thing is currently happening in Argentina. Javier Milei has undertaken one of the greatest economic reform efforts in modern history — and it is absolutely working. He has brought inflation rates down from the insane to the manageable, and he has done this over the course of just a few months.
The Washington Post has reported on his efforts, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/25/trump-javier-milei/">writing</a>:
<blockquote>Inflation is tumbling, just as he promised, from a peak of almost 300 percent; a long-running budget deficit has turned into a surplus; government bonds, once seen as almost certain to sink back into default, are rallying; and the long-moribund economy is finally starting to rebound,” Bloomberg News reported this month. “Not bad for an outsider with an agenda so radical that people were speculating openly a year ago on how many months he’d last before having to surrender power.</blockquote>
Milei himself has <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2024/11/20/argentina-the-making-of-an-economic-miracle">said</a>, “What lies ahead in 2025 is more of what we’ve already done: strict fiscal balance, no money growth and deregulation. Argentina has suffered from an overdose of deficits, money-printing and useless regulations. All that needs to go.”
People on the Left are very upset because when this type of action is taken — if you throw people off the welfare dole, for example, because there&#8217;s too much spending on welfare or if you stabilize the currency — what that means quite often is that poverty rates in the very near-term increase. But then, they begin to decline radically, which is exactly what happened with Chile.
Milei remains incredibly popular in Argentina.
The success in Chile was the precursor to the economic revolution that spread across the Western world. The Chilean success was seen as a model by the Reagan administration; it&#8217;s why they pursued tax-cutting. It&#8217;s why they pursued deregulation and privatization of state-owned industries. The same occurred in Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s Britain.
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The lessons that Milei is pushing in Argentina are being applied to the rest of the Western world. That doesn&#8217;t mean President-elect Trump wouldn&#8217;t have pursued it in the absence of Milei. It does mean, however, a wave of economies are beginning to recognize the stagnating pseudo-socialistic policies that are pushed by so many members of the Left actually end in economic ruin for nations. That is now being disowned.
That’s why the business market is reacting so positively to President Trump&#8217;s election. We are witnessing a working model that has been applied in Argentina, where it was in crisis mode, succeeding. That means crisis efforts have to be undertaken here as well.
If those efforts are applied even on a medium scale in the United States, we are about to see a boom unlocked in the United States, unlike any in modern American history.

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Staunchly libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei’s economic plans are proving enormously successful, as the country&#8217;s inflation <a href="https://apnews.com/article/argentina-inflation-milei-economy-21560cec4fd473a95155adf06ca46c4a?taid=673424a10264b5000162887b&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plunged</a> to 2.7% in October, the lowest level in three years.
Milei was elected roughly one year ago, but the measures he has taken have revivified the once-crippled Argentinian economy, where inflation dropped in October to 2.7% after registering at 3.5% in October. Milei had promised to lower inflation to less than 3% before the end of 2024.
&#8220;We are decreasing the tax that creates the most distortion: inflation,&#8221; Economy Minister Luis Caputo <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/argentine-monthly-inflation-falls-to-three-year-low-34d2c913">stated</a>.
In 2022, the Argentinian <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/10637/inflation-in-argentina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation rate</a> was 72.43%. <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/argentine-monthly-inflation-falls-to-three-year-low-34d2c913" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barrons</a> reported that when Milei took office last December, “monthly inflation leapt by 25.5 percent after he devalued the peso by more than 50 percent. It has since been on a downward trajectory, coming in at under five percent each month since May. &#8230; Milei, who wielded a chainsaw on the campaign trail last year as a symbol of his plan to slash public spending, has cut energy and transport subsidies and thousands of public sector jobs.”
&#8220;We are emerging from the desert, the country is starting to grow again,&#8221; Milei declared.
In early October, students <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-budget-cuts-spark-protests-universities-2024-10-02/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protested</a> in Buenos Aires because Milei’s government implemented strong spending cuts at public universities.
The Economist <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/19/javier-mileis-next-move-could-make-his-presidency-or-break-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in June that Milei had “slashed spending&#8221; while the  &#8220;central bank stopped printing money to finance the deficit,” adding that “by most economic measures Mr Milei is beating expectations.  &#8230; Argentina has had fiscal surpluses for five months in a row. Inflation spiked after a sharp devaluation, but has since fallen to a monthly rate of 4.2% in May, the lowest in over two years.”
In January, Milei spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he <a href="https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/01/special-address-by-javier-milei-president-of-argentina/">stated</a>, “Today, I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger. And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.”
“Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. Some have been motivated by well-meaning individuals who are willing to help others, and others have been motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste,” Milei added. “We’re here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause.”
He concluded, “Do not surrender to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution. The state is the problem itself. &#8230; long live freedom!&#8221;
In May 2024, Milei spoke in Spain, where he <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/spain-deputy-pm-accuses-milei-of-sowing-hatred-1a41d091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;Let us not let the dark, black, satanic, atrocious, horrible carcinogenic side that is socialism prevail over us.&#8221;
Before he was elected, Milei held numerous rallies in front of thousands of young people at which he would educate them on conservative economic policies, quoting famed economists such as Friedrich Hayek.

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Argentina President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/javier-milei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Javier Milei</a> declared war on the global Left during a rousing speech at the United Nations this week where he announced that his country would no longer remain neutral and on the sidelines.
The 53-year-old libertarian economist — whose policies have started to rapidly reverse Argentina&#8217;s decline with inflation rates falling, rental housing becoming more available and affordable, and economic growth outpacing forecasts — said that he became a politician &#8220;following the resounding failure of more than a century of collectivist policies that destroyed our country.&#8221;
He warned that the U.N. has veered off course in recent decades from its original charter of ensuring major global war did not erupt again by adopting principles centered around the belief that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Milei said that the organization changed from being &#8220;a shield to protect&#8221; mankind to &#8220;a leviathan with various tentacles purporting to decide not only what each nation state should do, but also how all the citizens in the world should live.&#8221;
He warned that the 2030 Agenda that the U.N. was pushing was nothing more than &#8220;a supranational government program that is socialist in shape.&#8221;
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&#8220;It purports to resolve the problems of modernity with solutions that afflict the sovereignty of nation states and violate the right to life, right to freedom, and property of persons,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an agenda that purports to resolve poverty, inequality, discrimination with legislation that simply furthers these issues, because the history of the world has shown that the only way of guaranteeing prosperity is by limiting the power of the monarch, by guaranteeing equality before the law, defending the right to life, to freedom, and to the property ownership of individuals.&#8221;
He said that the U.N. committed &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221; by advocating for lockdowns around the world in response to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
&#8220;In this same house, we that purport to defend human rights, we have also included bloody dictatorships in the Human Rights Council, including Cuba and Venezuela, without reproach,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In this same house, which purports to defend the rights of women, we&#8217;ve allowed on CEDAW, the CEDAW Committee, countries that punish their women just for showing their skin. In this same house that had voted against the State of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East to defend a liberal democracy, we have simultaneously shown a total inability to respond to the scourge of terrorism.&#8221;
&#8220;On the economic level, we have promoted collectivist policies that undermine economic growth, violate property rights and disrupt a natural economic process in preventing the most left behind countries to freely enjoy their own resources,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;[The U.N. has] imposed regulations and prohibitions specifically because of countries that wish to develop themselves. We have further established toxic relationship between global governance and international credit bodies demanding that those countries that are most left behind commit resources that they don&#8217;t have to programs that they don&#8217;t need, making them perpetual debtors.&#8221;
&#8220;We have also seen ridiculous policies with Malthusian stances, such as zero emissions policies that harm all poor countries, policies related to sexual and reproductive rights when birth rates in Western countries are plummeting, announcing a somber future for all of us,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We have also seen that the veto of the permanent members of the Security Council has begun to be used in the defense of the specific interests of a certain few. That&#8217;s where we are today, with a powerless organization, powerless to provide solutions to the true global conflicts.&#8221;
He said that the U.N. should be focused on Russia&#8217;s criminal war against Ukraine, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being killed, instead of wasting time and money &#8220;imposing on poor countries how they should and how much they should produce, who they should do relations with, what they should eat, and what they should believe in.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to issue a warning here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are coming to the end of a cycle, collectivism and the moral posturing and the woke agenda is coming up against reality. There are no further credible solutions to the real problems of the world. If the 2030 agenda fails, as recognized by its own promoters, the response should be to wonder whether or not this was an ill-conceived program from the outset, and we should accept this reality and change what we&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
&#8220;The same thing always happens with ideas that come from the Left,&#8221; he continued, noting that leftists &#8220;design a model in line with what human beings should do, and when individuals freely decide to act otherwise, they have no better solution than to restrict, repress, or cut off their freedom.&#8221;
&#8220;In Argentina, we&#8217;ve seen with our own eyes what they have done at the end of this path of envy and sad passion: poverty, anarchy, and a total lack of liberty,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We still have time to choose another direction. I want to be clear so that there&#8217;s no poor misunderstanding here. Argentina is going through a profound process of change currently and has decided to embrace the ideas of freedom. These are ideas that say that all citizens are born free and equal before the law, that we have inalienable rights granted by our Creator to life, to freedom, and to property.&#8221;
He said that these new principles the country is adopting will guide its international conduct moving forward.
&#8220;We believe in the defense of life for all,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We believe in the defense of property for all. We believe in freedom of expression for all. We believe in freedom of worship for all. We believe in freedom of trade for all. And we believe in limited government for all. And in these times, what happens in one country has a swift impact on others, and we believe that peoples should be able to live free of tyranny and oppression, be it political oppression, economic slavery, or religious fanaticism. This fundamental idea shouldn&#8217;t be mere words. It should be supported by our acts, diplomatically, economically and materially, through the joint force of all of the countries that stand up for freedom.&#8221;
He warned that Argentina will no longer support &#8220;any policy that implies restricting individual or trade freedoms, nor the violation of natural rights of individuals, regardless of who promotes these or how big the consensus is in this institution.&#8221;
&#8220;For this reason, I&#8217;d like to officially express our dissent on the Pact For The Future that was signed on Sunday, and I invite all nations of the free world to support us, not only in relation to this pact, but also in the establishment of a new agenda for this noble institution,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;That is the agenda for freedom. From this day on, you should know that Argentina, the Republic of Argentina, will abandon its policy of historic neutrality, and will be on the vanguard in the struggle for the defense of freedom, because, as Thomas Paine said, &#8216;Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.&#8217; Long live freedom, dammit!&#8221;
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World Leaders Speak At The 79th Session Of The United Nations General Assembly In New York

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At first glance, Vice President Kamala Harris has little in common with Eva Perón, the controversial first lady of Argentina popularly known as “Evita.” But a closer look reveals one alarming similarity.
Over 70 years ago, Evita and her husband, Argentina’s president Juan Perón held power by showering their fellow citizens with benefits and tanking the economy. The Peróns threw (figurative) candy off the palace balcony to the masses below, while distracting them from the consequences of irresponsible fiscal policy.
Last year, inflation in Argentina was at 140%. Poverty was at 40%. Half the country was receiving some kind of public payment. After seven decades of Peronism, the Argentines had finally had enough. They elected economist Javier Milei on a promise to shrink government, privatize state companies, and liberalize trade.
Here in los Estados Unidos, we seem not to have taken this lesson to heart.
President Biden used COVID as an excuse to give us the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act — which, despite the names, poured printed trillions into the money supply. This, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/inflation-will-stick-around-long-the-big-spenders-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economists tell us</a>, is the basic cause of inflation. More money chasing the same amount of stuff means higher prices.
Then there was the student loan giveaway, where hundreds of billions in borrowers’ liability, regardless of the quality of their degree or ability to pay, were transferred to you and me. The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional, but the administration continued regardless.
There was also a pension bailout. Biden used $36 billion in taxpayer funds to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/12/08/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-historic-relief-to-protect-hard-earned-pensions-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-union-workers-and-retirees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bail out</a> 350,000 participants in underfunded private plans. But what the White House called “helping to ensure a dignified retirement for all American workers” means all the other taxpayers bailing out badly-managed union funds. Nationalizing private losses creates more moral hazard, as feckless managers face no consequences for failure.
When it comes to immigration, Biden has doled out candy like no other president before him—a policy that Harris, his “border czar,” shows every sign of continuing if she succeeds him.
There’s been billions in <a href="https://www.fema.gov/grants/preparedness/shelter-services-program/fy24-awards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FEMA grants given to charities</a> that relocate inadmissible aliens throughout the country, and to the Biden-supporting cities and states that house them for “free.”
There’s Temporary Protected Status, where the government “temporarily” declares a given country’s illegal aliens off limits for enforcement. This lasts 18 months, but then is renewed over and over. Some countries’ nationals have had TPS for <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-el-salvador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decades</a>.
Then there’s Biden’s bogus immigration <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/13/a-legal-immigrants-lament-bidens-parole-scheme-makes-patsies-of-those-who-abide-by-law/">parole-a-palooza</a> programs that cover whole countries and millions of inadmissible or illegal aliens. The latest is “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-weighs-giving-legal-status-to-immigrant-spouses-of-u-s-citizens-04277843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parole in place</a>,” which could apply to a million or more illegal aliens married to U.S. citizens. Like other Biden “lawful pathways” around immigration limits set by Congress, this one is wide open to fraud.
There’s Deferred Enforced Departure for illegally present <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/14/memorandum-on-the-deferred-enforced-departure-for-certain-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinians</a> (and <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/deferred-enforced-departure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">others</a>), which means although a foreign national has had all due process, the Biden-Harris administration just decides not to enforce judgement.
The administration is also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/29/biden-border-bill-next-00154839">considering</a> expanding the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/pages/attachments/2015/07/24/eoir42b.pdf">Cancellation of Removal</a> program to people who have lived in the U.S. for over 10 years and have citizen relatives who would “suffer hardship” if they were deported. They’re unlikely to set the hardship bar too high.
There’s <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/26/biden-invites-more-illegal-immigrants-by-proposing-free-health-care-at-your-expense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taxpayer subsidized Medicaid and Obamacare</a> for DACA (Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” program). To achieve this, Biden’s <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-08635.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed rule</a> considers DACA beneficiaries “lawfully present” for the purposes of health benefits, though the justification for the “deferred action” against them is that they are unlawfully present. It’s pretzel logic.
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Ez3LZOgUQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emerging</a> Harris agenda builds off the Biden years by bringing a bigger bag of candy to the balcony and throwing it off even faster. She wants to:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Give illegal aliens an “earned <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/08/18/nx-s1-5008844/democratic-national-convention-harris-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pathway</a> to citizenship” (amnesty);</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“eliminate” medical debt (by transferring it to the rest of us);</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">give first-time house buyers $25,000 and $40 billion in subsidies tax credits for builders;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">give parents a $6,000 “tax credit” (even if they pay no tax);</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">ban “price-gouging” for groceries, and</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">cap prescription drug costs.</li>
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 The last two ideas are known as “price controls.” Reason magazine <a href="https://reason.com/2024/08/19/kamal-harris-dishonest-and-stupid-price-control-proposal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calls</a> them “dishonest and stupid.” Or as Federal Reserve economist Chris Neely more politely <a href="https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/2022/mar/why-price-controls-should-stay-history-books#authorbox" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>, an “analysis of history show that broad price controls would be costly and of limited effectiveness.”
Harris <a href="https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families">says</a> she will do all this while “reducing the deficit and strengthening our fiscal health.” You see, she will throw all the candy out of the basket, but the basket magically refills. It’s the miracle of the loaves and fishes, with faith not in God but Big Government.
Tax expert Daniel Hemel <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/08/16/kamala-harris-2024-policy-child-tax-credit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thinks</a> Harris has “made the correct calculus that sacrificing on fiscal policy for a few hundred thousand middle-class voters in the battleground states is worth it.”
Maybe so. And who wants to be the politician running against Evita and the free candy? What’s certain is that, though the candy continues to rain on our heads, it is never free.
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Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation. Heritage is listed for identification purposes only. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect any institutional position for Heritage or its Board of Trustees.
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