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Why do some good ideas go wrong? 🤔
Henry Hazlitt said the trouble is where we stop looking. A policy may help one group today, while the cost shows up later or lands on people nobody was watching 👀.
In the last fiscal year, Washington paid more than one trillion dollars just in interest on its debt 💸. That is more than the country spent on defense.
Interest does not build a road, treat a patient, or train a soldier 🛣️. It is the bill for old spending, and it grows when rates rise 📈.
Can self-interest ever help your neighbor? 🤔
Adam Smith thought so. In his famous example, a baker does not bake for charity 🍞, yet the town gets fed.
A federal judge ruled in August that canceling international students’ visas over their political views violated the First Amendment. The administration has appealed. The judge found the threat had chilled noncitizen students’ speech.
🎤 Jay-Z says he’s got 99 problems, but the Fourth Amendment is the one he’s really rapping about.
We scored the song line by line: Jay-Z versus the state. ⚖️ Should he pull over or run? Does a locked trunk protect him? And what actually saved him in the end? 🚔
Some of his legal claims are spot on. Others are a myth even law students believe. 🧠
Watch the full breakdown on YouTube: youtu.be/1w-6Yk1O-ik
We count down six Supreme Court cases that defined power in America, from a recount that stopped mid-count 🗳️ to a 1944 ruling that lingered for 74 years ⚖️ to one undelivered commission in 1803 📜
Different eras, different rulings, same question: who really decides what rights you have? 🤔
A right the Court can hand you is a right it can take back.
Which case surprised you most? 👇
Watch the full video: youtu.be/lVcKLuAa_1k
