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A majority of Americans support measures favored by President Joe Biden to substantially redistribute U.S. wealth, according to an Ipsos poll for Reuters released on Thursday, including tax hikes on the wealthy and a higher minimum wage. The national opinion poll also found that Republican voters were divided over the "trickle-down economics" championed by their party's leaders since President Ronald Reagan some 40 years ago.

Something funny is happening with the much-hyped “blue wave” on the way to the fall midterms. That wave of Democratic candidates that is supposed to sweep away the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives? The one that the press and pundits have been predicting for months? One would almost think the steady narrative of a blue wave is an attempt at psychological warfare by the mainstream media and the Left in hopes of depressing Republican donors and voters into thinking the outcome is a foregone conclusion. But that narrative is completely detached from reality. The numbers now tell...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. medical providers are seeing only a trickle of patients newly insured under President Barack Obama's healthcare law, as insurers, hospitals and doctors try to work out any hitches in coverage. More than 2 million people have signed up for new private health plans that took effect on Wednesday under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare. While some of those consumers were already lining up doctor visits last month, early reports from providers and an online medical booking service show the demand for care has been modest so far. Within the Obama administration, officials...

Administration at odds with the individual insurance market

I’m pretty sure Karl Marx said the same thing. Via Fox News: “We know what they’re going to say, the opposition. They’re going to say– I found Mitch Daniels, who I don’t know, but seems like a reasonable guy– Daniels talked about trickle down government. I started thinking about that and how they keep talking about us, how we’re big government, trickle down government and they’re free enterprise. I started thinking. Remember Nancy? I don’t know whether it was you or us or who came up with the idea. We said, you know we’re paying banks 60 billion dollars next...