2% ICE November 4, 2025 TWO VIEWS OF MAMDANI’S 2% SURCHARGE > THIS NEW YORKER WON’T HAVE TO PAY IT — and explains (45 seconds in) why he hopes Mamdani succeeds in adding it on income above $1 million a year. A family earning $2 million, he calculates, would wind up taking home $87,500 a month instead of $90,000 . . . with the $2,500 difference going to make life more affordable for New Yorkers taking home $3,000 a month. > THIS NEW YORKER WILL — but explains why that’s okay (90 seconds). To me, both are compelling. (Though if my math is right, it’s only $1,667 per month, not $2,500, in surcharge on that second million.) Inequality in this country rivals what it was in 1929. How did that turn out? Is it such a bad idea to do something about it? And not just in New York? TWO VIEWS OF ICE The Application (80 seconds). A Pastor’s message to ICE agents (also 80 perhaps even more powerful seconds). Watch both! David H.: “Did it occur to you that we wouldn’t need ICE, except for Democrat open boarders [sic] policy.” → It did not, and I’ll tell you why. The Democrats never had an open borders policy. Not in 2002 when George W. Bush signed ICE into law. Not in 2013 when Democrats passed a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill 68-32 in the Senate that President Obama was poised to sign — if only the Republican House Speaker had allowed it to come to the floor. Nor in 2024 when Trump killed the next one. Clearly, the bill was too long in coming; but, per capita, more violent (and white collar) crime is committed each year by native-born Americans than by undocumented immigrants — who do way more than their share of the farm and food-processing and construction jobs most Americans are unwilling to do — so the blanket approach of demonizing and terrifying all those whose status is questionable in the eyes of barely-trained ICE recruits is not, perhaps, the best way to make America great. US Manufacturing Shrinks for Eighth Month on Sluggish Demand. The New Right’s New Antisemites – WSJ Could it be the Heritage Foundation, Tucker Carlson, and the Proud Boys he should be going after, not Harvard?