{"id":5311,"date":"2025-12-16T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:39:58","slug":"unblocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/unblocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Unblocked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i was trying to do things this morning to really get back on schedule, perhaps get the thinking working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, voila &#8212; two things to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tariffs &#8212; Reflexively I&#8217;m opposed because they are a tax.  But, with that understanding, they&#8217;re a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">middle class tax increase<\/span>, something that&#8217;s been needed since the Clinton Administration.  This plays, in a way, with what Boortz and Linder were proposing with the &#8220;Fair Tax,&#8221; which implemented a big value-added tax (VAT) on everything;  a national sales tax.  Some quick SingTFWeb shows that a big percentage of filers pay <strong>zero<\/strong> income taxes.  I&#8217;m going to need to dig more into that to get better information on what those numbers actually look like.  Gemini has some good output on it, but I need to run it to ground more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Reason Roundtable from yesterday talked about OrangeManBad&#8217;s EO basically invalidating state-level laws (and regulations) over AI.  Again, instinctively, I&#8217;m opposed to the EO, <strong>and<\/strong> the states&#8217; regulations.  But I understand the arguments about the need for uniformity.    The discussion unearthed a painful memory about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/ucc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UCC<\/a>.  I&#8217;m also thinking about all of the states that ended up adopting California Air Resources Board (CARB)<a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.arb.ca.gov\/our-work\/programs\/advanced-clean-cars-program\/states-have-adopted-californias-vehicle-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> emissions standards<\/a>.  Whether the California standards make any sense is a matter of debate, and I understand why the climate catastrophist Democrats want those implemented nationwide, so just have everybody adopt the California crazy standards.  Pitch it as a benefit to the automakers and unions for making it so only one type of car is needed for sale nationwide.  Again, it&#8217;s a way to backdoor things that Congress isn&#8217;t doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So&#8230;things to consider as I look to write this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was trying to do things this morning to really get back on schedule, perhaps get the thinking working. And, voila &#8212; two things to write about. So&#8230;things to consider as I look to write this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}