A Humanitarian Crisis
What to Know: Leaders in border towns are dealing with overwhelming numbers of migrants, and can’t keep up with the humanitarian needs.
The TPPF Take: The border crisis truly is a humanitarian tragedy.
“Stories of 12-year-old migrant girls crossing the border with the ‘morning after pill’ because there was a 100% chance she would be raped during her travels,” writes TPPF’s Britt Allen. “Local kids as young as 14, recruited through social media apps, stealing their parents’ cars to drive migrants for the cartel. There have been car accidents and fatalities caused by these teenagers because their directions from the cartel are to run from law enforcement. A mother was killed in one of these accidents while her teenage son waited at a restaurant for her to celebrate her birthday.”
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Don’t Mess with Texas
What to Know: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Texans need electric vehicles, not those terrible old reliable, affordable gas and diesel cars and trucks that can go as far as Texans need to go.
The TPPF Take: Secretary Buttigieg claims that EVs are cheaper to operate, especially with rising fuel prices.
“When all the inputs for EVs are considered from powerplants to transmission lines to charging stations, the actual dollar per gallon equivalent hits close to $19 over a 10-year, 120,000-mile EV lifetime,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “We’re likely to soon hear Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claim that EVs have achieved cost parity with vehicles using gasoline or diesel. Don’t be fooled. We haven’t, and EVs may never reach parity.”
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Bright Lights, Big Prices
What to Know: Inflation is contributing to the shutdowns of some Broadway productions, including “Phantom of the Opera,” which has been in continuous production for 35 years.
The TPPF Take: Inflation is the result of bad policies in D.C.
“The blame is on the excessive spending, taxing, regulating, and money-printing out of Washington,” says TPPF’s Vance Ginn. “And the progressive fiscal policy pursued by this administration and Democrats in Congress is only making it worse. Signing the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act was only throwing gasoline on the raging economic fire.”
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