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Mamdani’s Audacious Estate Tax for New York

It is up to cooler heads to see that Mamdani's wild ambitions can never be converted into law.

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The Trump Administration’s Venture Capitalist State

Some companies will succeed, and others will fail – but their outcome will be determined by the consumers, not by Washington.

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