Ranger from the North

Tucker Carlson blew the whistle this week, aided by information provided to him from inside the White House, apparently. He reported that, of the 2,000 or so federal prisoners who have been released early thanks to FIRST STEP, roughly half had committed violent felonies under any fair reckoning.

This is all bad news for the purple district Dems who ran in 2018 pretending that they were independent moderates who wanted to find solutions and work together to make a brighter tomorrow and blah blah blah blah blah. They specifically targeted the wussy suburban Republicans who found Trump icky but who would never vote for some brother-marrying loon or toothy commie cartoon character. Except those kooks are now in command in the Democrat Party and the pseudo-centrists are going to get them hung around their necks.

Harris wants to create a different kind of federal taxation for "high-cost areas"? The federal government cannot charge different tax rates for people living in different parts of the country. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution expressly declares, emphasis mine:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States…

Just as there can't be a federal tax bracket for California or New York, the government can't impose a tax rate on wealthy areas that differ from poorer districts. If Harris could do this, she could then manipulate the tax system to benefit blue districts and precincts while punishing red ones, the very corruption the founders wanted to prohibit with this clause.