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Trump said tariffs (a regressive consumption tax primarily paid by American consumers)
may “substantially replace”
(progressive) income taxes.
Here is what policy experts say.
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Trump said tariffs may 'substantially replace' income taxes. What policy experts say — CNBC
During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump said tariffs could someday "substantially replace" the federal income tax system.

The New(ish) Architecture of Consumer Health and Artificial Intelligence
https://fpf.org/blog/the-newish-architecture-of-consumer-health-and-artificial-intelligence/
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That Johnston Life
Interviews real people who have made the move to Australia, sharing the highs and lows from this life changing experience...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/that-johnston-life/

It's already soooo much more than a year ago. 😫
"Residential rates will rise 14.75% by 2028. If approved, We Energies customers will have experienced six rate hikes since 2020.
The three-member state Public Service Commission sets utilities’ electric, natural gas and steam rates. It is expected to rule on the rate increases later this year."
#Milwaukee #WEEnergies

Podcasting company Red Seat Ventures, bought by Fox Corp. in 2025, is building a membership program for the ultra-wealthy, focused on hospitality and events (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/31/red-seat-ventures-membership

Scoop: Red Seat Ventures builds premium membership for the ultra-wealthy
As consumer spending shifts to live experiences, Balfe and Fox Corp. see an opportunity to get ahead of that market.

Time is Not Compute: Scaling Laws for Wall-Clock Constrained Training on Consumer GPUs
Yi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28823 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28823
arXiv:2603.28823v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scaling laws relate model quality to compute budget (FLOPs), but practitioners face wall-clock time constraints, not compute budgets. We study optimal model sizing under fixed time budgets from 5 minutes to 24 hours on consumer GPUs (RTX 4090). Across 70 runs spanning 50M--1031M parameters, we find: (1)~at each time budget a U-shaped curve emerges where too-small models overfit and too-large models undertrain; (2)~optimal model size follows $N^* \propto t^{0.60}$, growing \emph{faster} than Chinchilla's $N^* \propto C^{0.50}$, with $\alpha = 0.60 \pm 0.07$ robustly exceeding compute-optimal across all sensitivity analyses; (3)~a \emph{dual U-shape mechanism}: short-budget U-curves arise from compute bottlenecks, while long-budget U-curves emerge from data bottlenecks (overfitting), with an intermediate regime where the U-curve temporarily disappears. These findings have immediate implications for researchers training on consumer hardware, where wall-clock time -- not FLOPs -- is the binding constraint. We release all code, logs, and 70 experimental configurations.
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New solar generation record again for today... 67.5 kWh produced, 158.8 consumed, 16.4 exported, for net import of 91.3 kWh.
There's one day left in the month still, but it's looking pretty good compared to March:
* 0.73 -> 1.2 MWh production
* 5.0 -> 4.5 MWh demand (maybe this is from less heating? I don't have any instrumentation on my heat pump right now so no easy way to break down heating demand, but it pulls ~5 kW when it's running)
* 10.3 -&g…

Raiders Land Clear Message About Free-Agent QB Kirk Cousins https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/clear-message-free-agent-kirk-cousins/

"EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Pesticides #Environment

EU Plans to Weaken Pesticide Rules ‘Unlawful’, Experts Say
Plans by the European Commission to scrap routine checks on pesticide safety would break EU law, according to a new legal opinion published today (27 January).  The Commission announced plans in December to “simplify” regulations for pesticides, including ditching requirements for all pesticides to be reassessed every ten to fifteen years to account for new evidence around health and environment impacts. The move could violate […]

American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90% of the 2025 tariffs’ economic burden.
The researchers weren’t working from theory: They tracked actual transaction-level import price data
and found that prices paid by U.S. importers rose nearly one-for-one with tariff rates.
These results confirm what research on the 2018-19 tariffs already established and echoes other studies of the last year.
The bottom line is that, faced with tariffs,
foreign exporte…

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.