Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are racing to win the support of the two most powerful college sports conferences in the country for their proposal to create national rules of the road for athletes.
A global AI memory shortage threatens to morph into a geopolitical fight as more countries campaign to shore up their own supply, a South Korean tech executive said.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has attacked the very concept of property taxes. In a speech last year, he portrayed them as unfair. “You buy a home, you pay off the mortgage, and yet, you still have to write a check to the government every year—just for the privilege of living on your own private property. Is the property yours, or are you just renting it from the government?” DeSantis is trying to push through a “reform” to Florida’s property tax system that would eventually exempt the first $250,000 of a person’s home value from being taxed, promising that eventually 60 percent of homeowners would pay no property tax at all. Proposals to eliminate or heavily limit property tax are under consideration in other states, too. The Idaho Republican Party has called for the wholesale elimination of property tax, describing it as “an inherently unjust tax that converts privately owned property into government collateral and threatens homeownership.”
Mehdi interviews Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, who is leading in the primary polls and is pushing back against establishment Democrats who suggest she is unelectable.