‘Completely happy holidays? Provided that you do not want customer support in America.’
Austin Sarat at The Hill
With the “vacation season freshly behind us, the alternate of items meant to point out love and appreciation will rapidly get replaced by really disagreeable customer support experiences for thousands and thousands of individuals,” says Austin Sarat. Calling “massive American firms most frequently means spending hours attempting to get assist from individuals who appear to be paid to not assist.” And “in case you are fortunate sufficient” to “speak to a reside human being, that does not imply your downside will probably be solved.”
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‘Jimmy Carter was a warrior for peace. We should proceed his struggle’
Katrina vanden Heuvel at The Guardian
By “fiercely advocating for peace, and enjoying an energetic and transpartisan function in worldwide diplomacy,” Jimmy Carter “set a venerable normal for the way politicians can serve the general public lengthy after leaving workplace,” says Katrina vanden Heuvel. Carter “did extra to advocate for peace as an ex-president than most politicians do within the entirety of their careers.” We “ought to keep in mind his fearlessness in the reason for peace, and his religion within the democratic establishments he fought to guard.”
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Nationwide Assessment editors
The H-1B visa “debate was a pleasant stocking stuffer for anybody who enjoys factional fights and heated dialogue of the finer factors of U.S. visa packages,” say the Nationwide Assessment editors. The “immigration restrictionists are right that the H-1B visa program is, if nothing else, badly in want of reform.” These “visas are scammy, typically aren’t used to herald high expertise as marketed, and have been exploited by employers to dump American staff.”
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‘The case for killing the tax credit score for electrical automobiles’
Veronique de Rugy on the Los Angeles Occasions
The “federal tax credit score for electrical automobile purchases has far outlived its goal and now stands as a obvious instance of presidency overreach and financial inequity,” says Veronique de Rugy. It “stays what it has been from the beginning: an ineffective subsidy primarily benefiting the rich.” Some “consider that the associated fee and disparity in our tax code are worthwhile as a result of we should struggle local weather change,” however “EVs are usually not emission-free when contemplating the carbon footprint of battery manufacturing.”
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