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Build Back Better Bailouts? Pension Ponzis? Pension taxes in Michigan? A conspiracy you will hardly believe…oh my!

January 10, 2023 by Rafael Wolf

Author: Rafael Wolf | Libertarian Candidate, Michigan House of Representatives Editor: TBD Do you like corporate bailouts and Ponzi schemes? What about pension taxes? What about politicians constantly dunking on you without you ever knowing it? If so then you’ll just love the America you live in! If not…well then…here we go! President Biden’s Build …

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The Straight Dope on College Tuition and Student Loans

September 19, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

Author: Rafael Wolf | Libertarian Candidate, Michigan House of Representatives Editor: TBD College, also known as “higher education”, is the heavily promoted and marketed hope of the lower and middle classes to attain a brighter future of high net worth, societal status or “the good life“. As Robin Leach once said on Lifestyles of the …

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The Straight Dope on Who Runs Lansing & Washington DC (aka “not you…”)

July 10, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

You think your vote counts? What if someone told you, it in fact does not and that it is "wasted" every election cycle?

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The Straight Dope on Taxes

June 21, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

Author: Rafael Wolf | Libertarian Candidate, Michigan House of Representatives Editor: TBD Benjamin Franklin once wrote… “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Constitution Daily How true?! When discoursing about taxes, most people automatically think about income …

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The Straight Dope on Abortion

June 10, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

Author: Rafael Wolf | Libertarian Candidate, Michigan House of Representatives Editor: Bonnie Warren Is there any topic more controversial than abortion? It divides Americans like a hot knife though butter for a variety of reasons, all of which are inherently passionate. On June 24th, after writing most of this piece a week or so prior, …

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The Straight Dope on Guns and 2A

June 10, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

Author: Rafael Wolf | Libertarian Candidate, Michigan House of Representatives Editor: Bonnie Warren Guns. Bullets. Children facing the horrors of their own executions, and those of their classmates. This is what seems to be on everyone’s minds these days. When paying attention to any number of mainstream news outlets, or the discourses of our elected …

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The Straight Dope on Education

April 17, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

We need political will and leadership to de-fund certain institutions that drag on our society, and fund others which can propel our society forward in immeasurable ways.

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The Straight Dope on Climate Change and Environmentalism

April 17, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

I would argue contemporary environmentalists, in fact, do not protect the environment and therefore are not environmentalists nor do they practice environmentalism.

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The Straight Dope on Political Primaries

March 31, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

Democratic and Republican parties are in fact private businesses and not public institutions...

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The Straight Dope on Ukraine

March 19, 2022 by Rafael Wolf

Excerpt: Sadly, the Ukraine and Ukrainian people are cannon fodder in what is essentially a fight for economic power over the European market.

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