Squatters
What to know: Squatters have taken over one of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants in London.
The TPPF take: The surge in “squatting” incidents isn’t a coincidence—it’s an assault on private property rights.
“Squatting is when people lay claim to another’s property — most often an unoccupied home — with fraudulent legal authority,” says TPPF’s Robert Henneke. “States have laws against trespassing, but also laws that protect tenants. Progressives have begun misusing tenant protections to promote squatting.”
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Eggs-straordinary Times
What to know: El Paso-area shoppers are getting walloped at the grocery store due to inflation and sour economic conditions. In fact, “during the past four months, egg prices have risen by more than 47%,” according to an economics professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.
The TPPF take: El Pasoans—and all Americans—are enduring a cost-of-living crisis. And bad policy is to blame.
“Policymakers in Washington, D.C. have unleashed carnage on family finances by way of inflation, deficit spending, and intemperance. As a consequence, most everyone is struggling to make ends meet right now,” said TPPF’s James Quintero. “The path back to prosperity runs through sound money, fiscal discipline, and constitutional order. Those are the ideals we ought to be striving toward.”
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Election Integrity
What to know: A federal court’s ruling in Pennsylvania could have widespread effects on elections throughout the nation. It could end the misuse of the Voting Rights Act to force elections administrators to count mail-in ballots that aren’t signed or dated.
The TPPF take: The Left has tried to claim that signing and dating ballots is not important to the voting process.
“If the Legislature wrote that there should be dates, come Election Day, a ballot must have a date,” says TPPF’s Anelise Powers. “Deviating from the legislative requirements impacts the results by determining which ballots are counted and which are not. Rules are rules and of all days Election Day is perhaps the most important time to follow them.”