One week from today, on July 1, you will get to spend more of your after-tax dollars to drive to work, to drive to the grocery store, to drive to pick up your kids at daycare or camp, to visit your parents, to go out on a date. The cost and price of everything that is delivered by truck or auto will go up and you will get to pay for that as well. These are a few of the people you can thank – two of them have retired, two have primary challengers.
Elections have consequences
A coal miner’s daughter who can’t sing, lover of liberty, enemy of intellectual sloth, admirer of William Barrett Travis,Stonewall Jackson and Michael Valentine Smith, possessor of a Gonzales flag, a little old lady who is armed and wears assault pearls.