Today’s Review & Outlook column in the Wall Street Journal reports: “CBO says in its latest monthly budget review that individual income-tax withholding and payroll tax receipts rose 5% in February from a year earlier, while income-tax refunds fell 13%. The year-over-year increase is important because we are now getting the comparative results for the time period in which tax reform has been fully implemented. Tax receipts from rising incomes appear to have offset lower receipts from the cut in tax rates and 100% business expensing. The February revenue rise outstripped even a 7.3% spending increase from a year earlier, so the deficit declined by $12 billion in the month.”

A headline at Brietbart captures a story elsewhere reported (but not yet at The Pilot): “Nancy Pelosi Rules Out Impeachment: Trump ‘Just Not Worth It'”

Sounds smart to me, but will CNN and MSNBC go along? Will AOC?

https://pilotonline.com/opinion/editorial/article_47e2ff9a-4141-11e9-a20f-af82e6495b53.html

The editors ask a dumb question:

“For one thing, is it really cost efficient to get only half the expected life from an expensive carrier, just because the government doesn’t want to pay for its planned maintenance?”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/medicare-for-all-plan-authoritarian/

“Obamacare failed. There is no denying it anymore. The supposed ‘signature achievement’ of the 44th president isn’t just opposed by Republicans. The Affordable Care Act has now been jilted also by many Democrats, who, like so modern-day Lotharios, have abandoned their once-burning ardor for state insurance exchanges to pursue ‘single-payer’ health care.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/democrats-for-the-people-act-election-reform-bill-unconstitutional/

“At some level, you have to give House Democrats some credit for ambition. They may have just sent to the Senate the most comprehensively unconstitutional bill in modern American history.”

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

“The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database presents a sampling of proven instances of election fraud from across the country. This database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list, but is intended to demonstrate the many ways in which fraud is committed. Preventing, deterring, and prosecuting election fraud is essential to protecting the integrity of our voting process.”

https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/border-emergency-what-border-emergency/

You needn’t read Michael Walsh’s piece, especially if you are inclined to think that rational arguments in favor of border-wall funding are shopworn or obtuse.

I bring it up only to mention that we seem headed for another government shutdown over wall funding. As a Trump supporter, I view the prospect with optimism: If our last shutdown was a dry run, the next one should be positively illuminating. Even “Wacky Nut Job @AnnCoulter” might approve.

“Capitalism is an ideology of capital – the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit…so to me capitalism is irredeemable.”

(I found the quotation at ZeroHedge, but it is widely reported elsewhere.)

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/health-care-price-transparency-smart-reform/

“The Trump administration is considering a rule that would require doctors and hospitals to disclose the rates they negotiate with insurance companies, a step toward establishing something that is sorely wanting in the U.S. health-care market: prices.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-exists-doj-finds-letter-ordering-scrutiny-of-uranium-one-hillary-clinton/ar-BBUzHJZ?ocid=st

This should prove interesting. Best line in the reporting: “Democrats, meanwhile, argue it’s evidence of the Trump administration weaponizing law enforcement to target its political rivals.”

I find it hard to believe that launching an investigation amounts to “weaponizing law enforcement.” If that’s true, then secret surveillance of the Trump campaign must have been weaponizing law enforcement, too. But I jest.

Let’s see what Huber has to say about Uranium One and Hillary Clinton.