111 Tired Quotes You Can Relate to (But Also Get a Boost of Energy From)
If you’re tired today then maybe this post can help you.
In it I want to share relatable and timeless thoughts on tiredness. To give you some comfort. To remind you that you’re not alone in feeling this way.
But I also want to offer thoughts that can bring you a new spark of energy and motivation. And wisdom that may give you new ideas about how to tackle being tired. To hopefully be less tired in the coming weeks and months.
This is 111 of the best and most powerful tired quotes. I truly hope you’ll find something helpful here.
And if you want more useful motivation then check out this post with quotes on dealing w...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Can San Francisco Afford Reparations?
Marc JoffeLater this year, San Francisco Supervisors will consider anambitious plan to make reparations to black residents to compensate them for the lingering effects of slavery and more recent discriminatory public policies. While other Cato scholars have commented more generally on reparations atthe national level andin San Francisco, I will focus here on the fiscal implications and the local economic impact.AHoover institution analysis of the plan estimates its cost at $200 billion, with most of the expense attributable to the recommended $5 million cash payment to each eligible individual. Because the recommendat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
The Tyranny of Prosecutors
Clark NeilyAmong the most chilling lines of the 20th century was when Josef Stalin ’s chief of secret police Lavrenty Beria sought to assure his boss that literally anyone could be convicted and purged by boasting, “You show me the man, and I will find you the crime. ” Today, few American prosecutors would make that same boast (at least out loud), but they certainly could. Just ask Donald Trump.Is Trump a crook? Probably. Has he shown consistent disdain for norms throughout his professional and political career, including legal norms like honoring contracts, paying taxes, and truth in advertising? Absolutel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily Source Type: blogs
The Economic Wisdom of Nigel Lawson
Ryan BourneFormer UK Conservative MPNigel Lawson passed away this week. As Margaret Thatcher ’s longest‐serving Chancellor of the Exchequer (1983–1989), Lawson’s legacy on economics is a complex one. While his policies in the late 1980s led to a boom and bust cycle, exacerbated by the mistaken decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism, his overall impact was positively transformative, steering the country towards a smaller government, free ‐market economic policy.Lawson ’s ingenuity came to the fore in opposition, when he brokered an amendment with Labour rebels to the 1977 Fin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Farm Bill 2023 and Obesity
This study found U.S. farm policies “have generally small and mixed effects on farm commodity prices, which in turn have even smaller and still mixed effects on the relative prices of more‐ and less‐fattening foods.”Farm subsidy/ nutrition issues are hotly debated, and I have not done a detailed research review. If Congress withdrew subsidies from corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice, would U.S. farming shift toward healthier fruits and vegetables? Are the subsidized crops and related oils a cause of obesity, and has the go vernment given Americans bad nutrition advice about these products for decades, asNina T...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Questions Congress Should Ask About the OECD Two ‐Pillar Plan
Adam N. MichelEarlier this week,I wrote about how the OECD has lost its way by advocating for higher and more complicated taxes and leaving behind its historical mission of global free-market economic development. The Biden Administration has also used the OECD to circumvent Congress ’ role in developing tax rules and signed the United States on to the OECD’s Two-Pillar plan to increase taxes on large multinational companies.As theEuropean Union and other countries begin to adopt the OECD rules, Congress will face continued pressure to follow their lead. However, Congress should resist these pressures and work to keep ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
The OECD Plan To Raise Taxes Is Based on Faulty Data
Adam N. MichelFollowing decades of international debate over how to rewrite the taxation of multinational businesses,nearly 140 countries, including the Biden administration, agreed to an outline for a new global tax system. Since then, the proposal has been met withcriticism andskepticism from Congressional Republicans and other critics who argue that it will harm American taxpayers and infringe on U.S. sovereignty. Most recently, ten House Republicansproposed stripping U.S. funding for the Organisation for Economic Co ‐operation and Development (OECD), the international organization facilitating the reforms.The pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 4, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
The profoundest mystery
To me, and everybody who I consider to be in contact with reality, the nature of Donald J. Trump is completely obvious. He is morally depraved and functionally deranged. There are specific labels in the DSM-5 (the manual of psychiatric diagnoses) for his pathologies, of which I am usually skeptical but of which he is absolutely paradigmatic. These are malignant narcissism and sadistic psychopathy. In other words, the only person in the universe is himself. He has an insatiable, bottomless need for adoration and obeisance. The interests and feelings of others mean absolutely nothing to him except insofar as he revels i...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Courts Should Protect the Right to Participate in Agency Rulemaking
Thomas A. Berry andGregory MillWhen federal agencies choose to makebinding policy prospectively, those agencies are typically required to give interested parties an opportunity to influence the development of such rules through a process known as “notice‐and‐comment rulemaking.” To promulgate these binding rules, agencies are required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to publish a general notice of proposed rulemaking and then give interested persons an opportunity to submit written data, views, or arguments for the agency to consider. Agencies may not ignore these comments; rather, they mus...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Gregory Mill Source Type: blogs
California Misses Audit Deadline for 5th Consecutive Year
Marc JoffeFor the fifth consecutive year, the State of California is missing the March 31 deadline for filing its audited financial statements. Last Friday, the State Treasurer ’s Officenotified the municipal bond market that the state ’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2022 would be late. The last time the state filed its report within the required nine month reporting window was for its 2017 fiscal year.As Sheila Weinberg, Founder and CEO of Truth in Accounting told me:Timeliness is an important characteristic of information in state financial reporting. As the Governm...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Evidence Builds Against the Low ‐Income Housing Tax Credit
Vanessa Brown CalderThe Low ‐Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a federal housing subsidy that allocates tax benefits to the states for constructing apartment buildings and other projects. The states hand out the benefits to developers, who are required to cap rents for the units they set aside for low ‐income tenants.Chris Edwards and I reviewed the program in 2017here. We found that the program is very complex and greatly inflates the cost of housing projects. Since then, new research has bolstered our findings.Economists Edgar Olsen and Bree Lang are soon to publishThe Hidden Subsidies of Low ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Vanessa Brown Calder Source Type: blogs
An Unconstitutional Income Tax Without Income
Thomas A. BerryCan the government impose an income tax when you never had income? That may seem like a trick question, but it ’s exactly what happened to Charles and Kathleen Moore. In 2006, the Moores invested in a start ‐up Indian company called KisanKraft, whose goal was to provide low‐cost, efficient tools to rural Indian farmers. The Moores believed in KisanKraft’s mission and retained their shares of KisanKraft for over a decade, never selling it for a profit. And KisanKraft reinvested all of its own profits in the company, never paying dividends. For that reason, the Moores never sa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 27: Deposit Insurance
ConclusionPart 27: Deposit Insurance_____________________[1] To this list we might add a fourth item, noted by Golembe in a subsequentinterview, to wit: that the deposit " insurance " provided for by the 1933 Banking Act wasn ' t really insurance at all. Unlike genuine insurance policies, it covers depositors for losses regardless of whether the losses were due to recklessness on their or their banks ' part. And unlike genuine insurance funds, the FDIC ' s insurance " fund " is an accounting fiction, the truth being that the " premiums " it collects from banks go into the federal government ' s general coffers. " The gover...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Medicare and Social Security Are Responsible for 95 Percent of U.S. Unfunded Obligations
This report is intended to provide a short‐term view of the government’s financial h ealth, including the baseline against which new spending and tax proposals will be scored. Such scores inform legislators about the fiscal impact their proposals would have on 10‐year budget projections and whether they would trigger deficit‐reduction rules such as CUT-GO, a House rule th at requires offsetting spending reductions if legislation were to increase mandatory spending during the decade.The Financial Report Deserves More AttentionThe Financial Report of the U.S. Government deserves more attention. The report ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Are Taxes Really Lower in California than in Texas?
Marc JoffeWalletHub recently publishedan analysis of tax burdens by state that included some surprising findings: most notably, that Texas state and local governments impose heavier taxes on median earners than their California counterparts. Of the fifty states plus DC, the Golden State had the 12th lightest tax burden, while Texas ranked 41st.The counterintuitive conclusion that California is a relatively low tax state caught the attention of State Senator Scott Wiener (D‑San Francisco)trumpetedthe results on his Twitter page.The narrative CA — now the world’s 4th largest economy — is imploding has never been tr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
