Airports

As the TSA employees go without pay there is pressure to privatize the TSA. There are 20 airports that currently use private security instead of TSA. While most are smaller the exception is San Francisco where checkpoints are not seeing long lines.

Tax the rich

Many who oppose higher taxes on the rich maintain that in time it will filter down to the middle-income groups. An example is the current proposed estate tax by NY City mayor Mamdani. The current estate tax, some call death tax, in NY is 16% of all money over $7.5 million. The new tax will be 50% of all assets over $750,000. Many people have homes worth that much or more. The tax is not progressive like the federal estate tax but a flat 50%. This will affect about 7 million households

Vetting immigrants

As of Feb, this year, 3,313,000 immigrant cases are backed up in the courts and of these 2,232,000 are awaiting court decisions. 201,000 new cases have been reported and 334,000 cases have been closed in 2026 and 1079 have been granted relief. In 2025 about 600,000 have been deported and another 1.9 million have voluntarily self-deported. It is easier to control immigrants as they come in, rather than trying to work out ways to determine their cases once they are here. Properly vetting immigrants also limits the numbers of criminals entering the country. Once the process is under control, then immigrants can be selected based on age and skills, with people under age 30 who can speak English being given preference.

Fraud

The budget for Medicaid is $930 billion and a number of Medicaid programs are being investigated for fraud which started in MN but now appear to be in other states. The fraud is in 13 different programs including Housing for seniors and disabled people Children with autism Personal care services Adult Day services Nonemergency medical transportation Hospice. Add to that Medicare fraud estimated at $100 billion per year and billions more in defense and the government needs a program like DOGE

NY state

In the four years since NY Governor Kathy Hochul took office, the state budget has increase from $220 billion to $254 billion or 15% per year. Florida with a population of 23 million (vs NY at 20 million) has a budget of less than half at $117 billion. New York State's structural budget deficits, including a projected $22 billion-plus gap, are primarily driven by rapid spending growth in Medicaid and public education, along with costs for housing migrants and asylum seekers Take education as an example. New York now spends the most in any state at $36,293 per K-12 student and the national average is $20,000. NY state ranks 22 on test scores. For MN the cost is $20,700 and MN ranks number.

Companies leaving

It would be logical to assume that a big corporation would be hesitant to relocate to save money if they already have millions tied up in their local main offices but that may not be the case. When laws are passed that make it difficult for companies to operate there comes a point where they will leave. Many companies are leaving California because of strict regulations and high taxation because governors acted as if that was not possible. A recent example is New York Governor speaking to business executives. In 2022, Kathy Hochul said: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong… you are not New Yorkers.” Well surprise, many left and now in 2026 she is saying “Maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded,” the Democratic governor said at a forum hosted by Politico last week. The latest proposal is that the New York state estate tax be changed from a progressive rate of all assets over $7.5 million to a flat 50% tax on assets over $750,000. That will not encourage rich people to move to New York.

Europe today

The use of small nuclear reactors, whether using thorium or uranium pellets, can provide all the power needs of the country. They offer low-cost electric power and that can be used to manufacture diesel fuel without increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere. Electric power can split water by electrolysis to make hydrogen which can then be combined with carbon dioxide extracted from the air to make diesel, gasoline and aviation fuel. When these are burned, the CO2 is returned to the atmosphere from which it came thus being CO2 neutral. These reactors are made assembly line style in factories and shipped to the use point, avoiding the need for long transmission lines and they do not need water to operate. The U.S. government is aggressively pushing nuclear energy, aiming to quadruple capacity by roughly four-fold by 2050. Led by the Department of Energy (DOE) and recent Trump administration executive orders , policies focusing on fast-tracking new reactor licensing, boosting domestic fuel production (HALEU), and supporting $80 billion in new projects. In addition, private companies—particularly major technology firms—are increasingly turning to nuclear power to meet the immense, 24/7 electricity demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers. This shift is marked by investments in both existing nuclear reactors and next-generation advanced reactor technologies.