amac.us/newsline/washington-… Medicare Washington Post Editorial Board: The 'Childish' Lies of Medicare for All Even the Washington Post's editorial board exposes the costly truth behind Medicare for All. See why experts call its promises impossible to keep. By Larry Elder·October 15, 2026·4 min read Listen · 5 minAMAC Radio Save14 CommentsPrintShare 📷Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images"I think much of the world has gone mad," said a woman standing next to me as we waited for the restaurant valet to bring our cars. "Lord help us if these Democrats win the midterms. How can people be so blind? I mean, Medicare for All -- who's gonna pay for it?"The next day, a man approached me in the parking lot where I work. "I voted for you when you ran for governor," he said. He owns a small manufacturing business started by his father here in Los Angeles. He wants to move the business out of state, and would do so, but his wife's job with the state government keeps them here.He complained about the state's taxes, the regulations and how California treats him like he's the enemy rather than somebody who creates jobs and pays taxes. "They spend and spend and tax and tax -- and the state is at the breaking point," he said, "And I don't know what's going to happen with the midterms. But come no matter what happens, Trump can stop this Medicare-for-all nonsense at least for the next two years. After that .. "📷Indeed, Medicare for All. Apart from promising to impeach the president and investigate him and his family, the Democrats' big policy goal is Medicare for All to be paid for by taxing the rich.Asked last month on the CBS show "Face the Nation" how he intended to pay for Medicare for All, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said, "Look, I'm looking for billionaires to pay their fair share by taxing their wealth."The Washington Post, not exactly a pro-Trump news outlet, over the last several months published at least four editorials -- not op-ed pieces, editorials -- dropping truth bomb after truth bomb on Medicare for All.Dec. 25, 2025: "Socialized Medicine Can't Survive the Winter -- the British Government is Begging Sick People to Stay Away from Hospital During the Holidays":"The National Health Service has existed for years in a perpetual state of emergency. This was the case before the pandemic hit, and it has only gotten worse. ... There were 6.24 million individual patients waiting to get treatment in England as of October. That's about one and 10 people in the country waiting in the queue ... The UK spends well above the OECD average on healthcare, yet its outcomes fall short of Australia, Denmark and South Korea and we spend less as a percentage of their GDP's. Reform is largely impossible because of a religious-like devotion to the NHS."April,19, 2026: "A Medicare-for-all Future in the United Kingdom -- More Brits Pay for Private Insurance Because the National Health Service Is So Bad":"Despite the government funding and running a universal healthcare system, private hospital admissions in the United Kingdom, reached their highest level ever in 2024 ... America's health system is a mess, but the belief that a full government takeover would lead to better outcomes is just childish."May 18, 2026: "Getting Real about Medicare for All in California -- Gavin Newsom Broke His 2018 Promise to Implement Single-Payer Healthcare Because It Would Have Crushed the State's Finances":📷"California's non-partisan legislative analyst office estimated in 2022 that single-payer would cost between $494 billion and $552 billion a year. For comparison, the state budget Newsom proposed last week -- after four years of inflation -- calls for spending $349.4 billion next year. More than doubling spending would require dramatic tax hikes in a state the Tax Foundation already ranks as 48th on tax competitiveness. ... A similar experience of getting mugged by reality prompted Vermont to end this experiment with universal healthcare in 2014 before imposing taxes that would've crippled the state"July 19, 2026: "Medicare-For-All means Taxes for All -- Billionaires Don't Have Enough Money To Foot the Bill":"Roughly three-quarters of Medicare-for-all supporters believe that it could be paid for entirely by taxing billionaires. They're wrong. ... Just 40% knew the truth: Medicare for all would require raising taxes on most taxpayers, including the middle class ... It's understandable why politicians lie about being able to fund Medicare for all just by taxing the wealthy. Depending upon who's speaking, they tell the same lies about a green energy build-out, expanded Social Security benefits, zero-tuition college, government-run childcare and more. But voters deserve to know the truth."The Washington Post Editorial Board outed the Medicare for All promises by El-Sayed and the Democrats as flat-out lies. Good luck dismissing their objections as MAGA talking points.COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM

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amac.us/newsline/california-… California’s “Tax the Rich” Debacle This November, California voters will decide whether to create a first-in-the-nation “billionaires’ tax.” But the state already has a similar wealth tax in its largest city – and the result has been abysmal failure. By Sarah Katherine Sisk·October 15, 2026·5 min read Listen · 6 minAMAC Radio Save37 CommentsPrintShare 📷Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThis November, California voters will decide whether to create a first-in-the-nation “billionaires’ tax.” But the state already has a similar wealth tax in its largest city – and the result has been abysmal failure.In 2022, voters in Los Angeles approved a measure known as “United to House LA” (ULA). The policy, which went into effect in April 2023, creates a “mansion tax” of four percent on the closing price of properties that sell for more than $5.4 million and 5.5 percent on homes that sell for more than $10.9 million.Proponents of ULA – including LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who is now challenging Karen Bass in the mayoral race – sold it as a way to “make the rich pay their fair share” and raise money for “affordable” housing. They said it would raise about $900 million per year, or $2.7 billion over its first three years.📷Instead, the tax has only brought in about $1.2 billion. As The New York Post reported, “the City has barely touched the cash, spending just $114 million as of May – less than 10 percent of the money raised.” RAND also estimates that the tax cost local, county, and state agencies $452 million in revenue, including $80 million that would have gone to Los Angeles public schools.Even worse, according to a recent RAND report, ULA cut high-value real estate transactions by 31 percent, prevented the construction of more than 9,100 affordable housing units, and cost 16,650 full-time-equivalent construction jobs through early 2026.In other words, the tax appears to have deepened the housing shortage it sought to address.

amac.us/newsline/report-ice-… A new Department of Homeland Security audit confirms what many Americans long suspected: the Biden administration did virtually nothing to remove aliens who had overstayed their visas – even those who posed a credible national security threat to the United States. The shocking report is a chilling reminder of the perils of Democrat open borders policies just ahead of the midterm elections. As AMAC Newsline has previously explained, the illegal alien population isn’t just individuals who crossed the border illegally. It also includes those who came to the United States lawfully but were only authorized to be in the country on a temporary basis, such as individuals on business, tourist, or student visas. Many of these aliens simply stay in the country indefinitely, in violation of federal immigration law. According to the audit, which covered fiscal years 2021 to 2024, the Biden administration issued a jaw-dropping 31 million nonimmigrant visas over that time period. This means that in addition to the estimated 10 million aliens who crossed the border illegally under Biden, Democrats also allowed in more than three times that number on visas. That total amounts to nearly 12 percent of the entire U.S. population. 📷 Even more astoundingly, more than 12 million of these visas were issued without in-person interviews or fingerprint collection – meaning that the Biden administration made zero effort to verify that the stated reasons for applying for a visa were legitimate. They also had no way to track or identify these individuals once they entered the country, because the addresses they provided were often hotels or other non-permanent residences. But the real bombshell in the report is a Biden policy directive telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to effectively ignore tips about visa overstays.

amac.us/newsline/the-surpris… National Security The Surprising Bipartisan Fight Against the Chinese Communist Party Is Congress finally getting serious about countering the threat from communist China? 📷By Ben SolisContributing Writer·October 3, 2026·7 min read Listen · 8 minAMAC Radio 📷Photo: Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images For years, lawmakers in Washington have warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is exploiting America’s generosity and openness to weaken the United States from within. Now Congress is moving to address that threat and close some of the most glaring pathways the CCP uses to covertly exert its influence.A series of bipartisan bills introduced this year by members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party would target Chinese involvement in fentanyl trafficking, connected vehicles, robotics, and biotechnology. Though the threats are different, the principle behind the legislation is the same. Chinese companies should not be allowed to use access to American markets, technology, capital, and infrastructure in ways that endanger Americans or strengthen the CCP.Taken together, the measures reflect a meaningful shift in Congress’s approach toward China. Rather than simply documenting the threats posed by the CCP, lawmakers are increasingly targeting the specific channels through which Beijing-linked entities can gain leverage over the United States — whether by exploiting weaknesses in the financial system, collecting sensitive data, undercutting American industry, or gaining access to strategically important technology.📷Striking at China’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis The most urgent of the four measures is the bipartisan CCP Fentanyl Sanctions Act, reintroduced in August by Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI), Ranking Member Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), and Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA).The bill targets China-based and CCP-backed chemical manufacturers, online vendors, financial institutions, ports, ships, and other entities involved in the production, financing, or movement of illicit synthetic narcotics and their precursor chemicals.A groundbreaking 2024 Select Committee investigation concluded that the People’s Republic of China under CCP leadership is the “ultimate geographic source” of the fentanyl crisis. Investigators found that companies in China produce nearly all illicit fentanyl precursors and that the Chinese government has directly subsidized the manufacturing and export of illicit fentanyl materials and other synthetic narcotics through tax rebates.The investigation also found examples of government grants and awards going to companies openly trafficking illicit narcotics materials. The Fentanyl Sanctions Act is designed to close some of the loopholes those networks exploit.One important provision explicitly extends the reach of sanctions to activity in Hong Kong and Macau, preventing companies and trafficking networks from simply shifting transactions outside mainland China. It also covers affiliates, intermediaries, online marketplaces, and other entities that knowingly or recklessly facilitate the manufacture, financing, transportation, or sale of illicit synthetic narcotics like fentanyl.That broader reach matters because recent investigations have shown how international these networks have become. A June Nikkei investigation traced a Chinese network suspected of exporting fentanyl precursors through a base in Japan and found more than 120 cryptocurrency transactions involving entities sanctioned by the United States. The investigation centered in part on a company that operated from Nagoya and uncovered suspected money laundering and cryptocurrency fraud.The bill also gives the Treasury Department more power to restrict correspondent and “payable-through” accounts tied to implicated foreign financial institutions. In plain English, these accounts can give foreign customers access to the U.S. financial system, creating an avenue traffickers and money launderers can exploit.📷“This law will strike a fatal blow to Beijing’s narcotics operations, exposing their most vulnerable point,” said a former CCP security official identified as Dr. Zhi, who defected to the West in the late 1990s.Keeping Chinese Connected Vehicles Off American Roads The bipartisan Connected Vehicle Security Act of 2026 takes aim at another threat to the United States.Modern vehicles are essentially rolling computer networks filled with cameras, microphones, sensors, GPS systems, and communications technology capable of collecting enormous amounts of information. In some cases, vehicles can also be remotely accessed and controlled.The bill, introduced by Moolenaar and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), would prohibit the importation, manufacture, and sale of connected vehicles and key software and hardware linked to China and other designated foreign adversaries.Supporters argue this bill addresses both economic and national security issues. Chinese automakers have benefited from massive state support and industrial overcapacity that allows them to sell vehicles and components cheaply abroad, threatening American manufacturers. Network-connected Chinese technology could meanwhile provide access to sensitive information about Americans and U.S. infrastructure.Dr. Chenh Jiaying, a former economic adviser to the Politburo who later defected to the West, said Chinese leaders have long believed industrial overcapacity could help undermine the U.S. industrial base before any direct conflict. Moolenaar has similarly warned that America’s broader industrial base has been “hollowed out” by granting Chinese companies the privileges of the American market without demanding reciprocal treatment for U.S. companies in China.Stopping Chinese Robots Before They Become Embedded in America The bipartisan Guarding the U.S. Against Adversarial Robotics Dominance Act, or GUARD Act, would subject advanced robots made by companies tied to China and other foreign adversaries to federal national security scrutiny. Products found to pose unacceptable risks could be banned from entry into the United States.Robotics experts warn that Chinese-made robots can contain communications technology or potential backdoors that could expose sensitive data to the CCP. Effectively, these robots could be like mechanical spies embedded throughout the United States.The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the legislation in July as lawmakers considered how to address those risks before foreign-made robots become commonplace in American factories, businesses, and homes.Former PLA officer Colonel Lu Yin, who defected to the West in the early 2000s, warned that Chinese robots sent abroad could collect information useful to the People’s Liberation Army. He also warned that Chinese security services could use the technology to monitor dissidents, political refugees, and others regarded by the CCP as adversaries.The goal of this legislation is to stop the import of potentially dangerous Chinese robots before they become a threat.Preventing American Money from Building China’s Biotech Industry The fourth measure targets U.S. investment in Chinese biotechnology – something Americans may not immediately think of as a national security vulnerability.The bipartisan Biotech Investment National Security Act would expand U.S. outbound-investment restrictions to biotechnology, including pharmaceutical development, biologics manufacturing, and clinical research and development.Currently, American companies can provide Chinese firms with not only money, but also intellectual property, research expertise, technology, and commercial partnerships that help Beijing build industries the United States may later depend upon.Moolenaar has warned that allowing American investment, expertise, and technology to flow into Chinese biotechnology could hand Chinese companies another “chokehold” over the American economy while hollowing out the nation’s own research and pharmaceutical infrastructure.Taken together, these four bills represent a significant change in approach.For decades, American leaders largely assumed that greater trade and economic integration would push China toward freer markets and a more cooperative relationship with the West. That assumption has increasingly given way to the recognition that access without safeguards can itself become a vulnerability.Fentanyl networks can exploit financial and commercial loopholes. Connected vehicles can collect sensitive data. Robots can create new avenues for surveillance or disruption. American capital can help build strategic Chinese industries.No single law can eliminate the threat posed by the CCP. But if enacted, these measures would close avenues of vulnerability and make it far more difficult for Beijing-linked entities to poison Americans, collect their data, undermine American industry, or use American money and markets to strengthen China at the United States’ expense.

amac.us/newsline/iran-s-dwin… For decades, Iran’s clout was based on far more than missiles, proxies, or a nuclear file. It was about its ability to control shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Geographic location has given the regime significant strategic leverage and an ability to hold global energy markets hostage on a whim. What happens to oil if shipping stops? How high do prices go as millions of Iranian barrels vanish overnight? Those questions still matter, but a new reality is changing energy markets and fast eroding Tehran’s leverage. The conflict in the Middle East has laid bare something Tehran would rather keep quiet: Iran’s hold on world energy markets is slipping. Its military might is greatly diminished, and so too is the centrality of the Strait of Hormuz as energy producers step up production and new pipelines are built. 📷 Since the conflict began, much of the lost Iranian crude oil has been replaced by other nations’ increased production and exports. In total, about 17 million barrels of crude per day were held up in the Persian Gulf. After the June Memorandum of Understanding, overall traffic increased to as high as 10.8 million barrels per day. A slow return of U.S.-protected shipping through the strait and new loadings and pipeline flows from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates took total flows back up to over 13.5 million barrels per day. That has again fallen to approximately 7.6 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency. Reuters recently published numbers that tried to include the “dark crossings,” which it rightly notes are increasing supplies, but are wildly variable. “In a September 2nd note, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimated that total Gulf oil exports, including ‘dark crossings,’ were roughly 15 million to 16 million barrels per day, about two-thirds of pre-war levels.” Taken together with pipeline flows, the impact on crude oil shipments is narrowing; not so much for liquefied natural gas, which can only be shipped from fields in the Persian Gulf. American military action and sanctions have put enormous pressure on Iran. They have halted its tankers and stalled its oil production and exports—as of Sept. 25, the Navy has redirected 122 commercial vessels and has destroyed at least eight Iranian tankers in response to attacks on U.S. warships. Even if Tehran had wanted to exert more pressure on shipping, it couldn’t, given that the entire Iranian navy was sunk early in the conflict, with much of its missile and drone capacity threatening shipping greatly degraded. Despite disruptions, the global economy has held up. Alternative producers have increased output, nations have tapped their strategic reserves, and some consumption has slowed. At the same time, new infrastructure and shipping patterns have sprung up, reducing the world’s dependence on a single chokepoint and giving buyers other options. Rough videos of hundreds (or thousands) of Iraqi tanker trucks streaming across the desert toward Syria match with GPS maps showing tankers making “dark crossings” and ship-to-ship transfers, all to make the same point. As shadowy as that trade may be, it shows how hard it is to stifle energy demand. If the official channel is blocked, cargo finds another way to move toward the demand. And the longer this conflict runs, the more permanent this new energy network becomes, to Iran’s lasting detriment. Customers are making this choice every day. When European refiners lost Russian barrels a few years back, they looked to the U.S., the Middle East, Africa, or Brazil. As the supply of Middle Eastern barrels becomes increasingly uncertain, North American suppliers look far more trustworthy. Every tanker filled with crude from a reliable producer means reduced leverage for a nation that traffics in fear and terror as much as it does oil. The U.S. stands to gain the most from the ongoing shift. American producers have put large volumes of oil, natural gas, and refined products on the water while the Middle East has been in turmoil. International Energy Agency reports provided some context, noting that “total crude and petroleum product exports from the United States surged to a record high of 13.1 million barrels in May.” For buyers hunting reliability, U.S. exports are an option that can safely fill a portion of that demand. That ability to fill demand will grow as Venezuelan crude begins to flow once again as well. Washington regulators spent years arguing over whether American energy should be treated mainly as an environmental problem or as a strategic asset. Recent global events have unequivocally settled the argument. It’s no longer realistic to ignore the fact that American energy security and national security are inextricably linked. That truth is why increasing both domestic production and refining benefits the entire planet. Resilient U.S. volumes keep domestic prices low and give our allies a secure means of avoiding risky suppliers whose interests run against ours. That backdrop also helps drive the pressure on Tehran. At the United Nations last week, President Donald Trump urged other nations to keep Iran economically isolated. Soon after speaking, he also rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “I’m rejecting the deal,” he explained. “They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately because they’re losing so badly.” The president knows the U.S. has time on its side. The naval blockade and proactive military strikes to deter any threat to shipping can be sustained for many months to come, even after the midterm elections, which the Iranians incorrectly believe will constrain Trump. While gas and diesel prices have certainly risen, our economy is proving very resilient, with the Atlanta Fed reporting real gross domestic product growth in the third quarter of 5%. And to put today’s gas prices in context, the nation weathered a longer period of higher gas prices from 2011 to 2013 (adjusted for inflation, $5.28 per gallon of gas then to today’s $4.48). Again, none of these changes renders Iran harmless. The regime and its proxies can (and do) still represent a serious threat. The most recent example of that threat was a missile attack on a ship carrying U.S. Marines, injuring eight. But the world has now seen it can survive without Iranian oil and meet energy needs even with limited shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, meaning Iran’s leverage over global energy markets is fading fast. Reprinted with permission from the Daily Signal.

amac.us/newsline/democrats-d… Politics Democrats Demand More Migrants on Welfare as Trump Vows to End the Handouts President Donald Trump is invoking a 144-year-old law to ensure that any immigrants allowed into the United States will contribute to the national economy – but dozens of Democrat states and cities are suing to stop him.

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REPORT: Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger Considering a New Tax on GYM MEMBERSHIPS thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05… #gatewaypundit via @gatewaypundit Shortly after winning the Virginia governor race by running on a campaign about affordability, it was widely reported that Virginia Democrats were gearing up to create a slew of new taxes for their constituents. Now it is being reported that Spanberger is considering a new tax on gym memberships and possibly on streaming networks as well. Wehere does it end and how is any of this considered part of affordability? More importantly, why is cutting the size of the state government not even a consideration? The Daily Mail reports:

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