Chet Collins

Washington’s Mar-a-Lago Prosecution by Leaks - WSJ Opinion

In other words, “a person briefed on the matter” can leak details about the investigation to the press that the public is supposed to credit as true. But the actual “court filings and its work,” in Mr. Garland’s phrase, must remain secret. And these people wonder why tens of millions of Americans don’t trust the Justice Department and FBI? If this all sounds familiar, you may be thinking of the Russia collusion probe.

Student Loan Forgiveness Is an Inflation Expansion Act - WSJ Opinion

The reports say Mr. Biden will cancel $10,000 in debt for borrowers making $125,000 or less a year. That would cost about $300 billion this year, and $330 billion over 10 years, says the Penn Wharton Budget Model. That’s far more than the $102 billion the Inflation Reduction Act purportedly reduces the deficit over 10 years starting in 2027.

Can’t afford a full-size Navy, tho.

White House Planning Student-Loan Announcement Wednesday - WSJ

about his proposal for dealing with student-loan debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

Get out your checkbooks.

A Group of Apple Employees Protests Company’s Three-Day-a-Week Office Policy - WSJ

The employees who want more flexible work arrangements had compelling reasons, the petition said, including disabilities, health concerns and the fact that some of them are happier and more productive in flexible work environments.

Dictating how, when, and where an employee works is a basic definition of an employee. They managed to work from an office for an entire career until March 2020, and now it’s impossible? If you don’t want to work from an office, and the employer says you must work from an office, find a new job?

I love a rainy day.

Children Are Priceless - WSJ Opinion

But children aren’t merely cost centers. Even ignoring human affection and thinking in the most utilitarian terms, children are assets—to the families who raise them, to the nation in which they are born, and to the world to which they will contribute across their lifetimes.

Liz Cheney and Her Unhappy Choice Among Liars - WSJ Opinion

Offhand, only one lie heard in normal, everyday American discourse seems to me close in size to Mr. Trump’s 2020 lie, and that’s the routine, universally affirmed lie, which is nowhere found in the science, that climate change is the end of the world.

Even evil robots deserve a day at the links.

This Is Your IRS at Work - WSJ Opinion

In 2010 Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which was supposed to identify wealthy Americans using undisclosed foreign accounts. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation said this would raise some $9 billion in revenue by fiscal 2020. Yet an April Tigta audit noted that while the IRS has spent $574 million to implement the law, the agency has drummed up only $14 million in compliance revenue.