NYTimes.com: How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks

[John Clark]

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks

Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/usaid-funding-disease-outbreaks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.Ce5R.ewyJM8R0Pkt1&smid=em-share

[Alan Grayson]

It occurred to me that Trump wants to trash Canada's economy with his 25% tariff, so he'll have an argument for Canada becoming our 51st state, in which case the tariff will cease to exist for Canadians. Also, as I've posted previously, if his tariffs produce enough cash for running the reduced in size US government, he can argue for the elimination of the income tax, to be replaced with a value-added tax, while eliminating the IRS. His billionaire and corporate buddies will be very happy to pay the VAT tax, with zero personal and corporate tax rates. AG

[Brent Meeker]

On 3/9/2025 6:55 AM, Alan Grayson wrote:

It occurred to me that Trump wants to trash Canada's economy with his 25% tariff, so he'll have an argument for Canada becoming our 51st state, in which case the tariff will cease to exist for Canadians. Also, as I've posted previously, if his tariffs produce enough cash for running the reduced in size US government, he can argue for the elimination of the income tax, to be replaced with a value-added tax, while eliminating the IRS. His billionaire and corporate buddies will be very happy to pay the VAT tax, with zero personal and corporate tax rates. AG

In California there's a plan to be bought by Denmark and live in a social democracy.  The tricky part is that California's GDP is eight times Denmark's so it's not clear who should buy whom.

Brent