Wednesday Links

Even when the estate tax rate was as high as 80%, it didn’t raise any money!

How public health discredited itself. (Recommended) 

“Their response to the coronavirus pandemic was the worst debacle in the history of their profession, and arguably the costliest federal-policy blunder ever made in peacetime.”

The last American duel: In California on September 13, 1859.

“A caravan of spectators rode out in carriages to the lake to watch the ritual unfold.”

Work requirements for welfare under Bill Clinton made low-income families better off.

Cato on Biden’s IRA bill: the act will cost between $936 billion and $1.97 trillion over the next 10 years, and between $2.04 trillion and $4.67 trillion by 2050.

Over the past decade, the number of workers over the age of 65 has increased by 33%. 

“If you’re eligible to cash a social security check, you’re part of the fastest-growing age cohort in the American workforce.”