Jan 26, 2017 - Politics & Policy

Steve Forbes begs GOP to back off border tax

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Publishing magnate Steve Forbes penned an open letter to congressional Republicans in today's WSJ (the full-pager was sponsored by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance) pleading with them to reconsider a border adjustment tax.

He calls the border tax a "massive new tax on consumers" via price spikes. Forbes predicts that it may cause the cost of daily goods to rise by 20% and gas prices to shoot up 30 cents.

Still confused on what a border adjustment tax entails? Here's our Facts Matter on it .

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Axios
24 mins ago - Podcasts

The art and business of political polling

The election is just eight days away, and it’s not just the candidates whose futures are on the line. Political pollsters, four years after wrongly predicting a Hillary Clinton presidency, are viewing it as their own judgment day.

Axios Re:Cap digs into the polls, and what pollsters have changed since 2016, with former FiveThirtyEight writer and current CNN politics analyst Harry Enten.

Orion Rummler
3 hours ago - Technology

Twitter launches warnings on election misinformation and delays

Photo: courtesy of Twitter

Twitter will start pinning notices to the top of all U.S. Twitter users’ timelines warning that results in next week’s election may be delayed and that they may encounter misinformation on mail-in voting.

Why it matters: Delayed election results are expected across many states that are handling unprecedented amounts of absentee and mailed ballots, which President Trump has baselessly called "very dangerous" and "corrupt."

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Miriam Kramer, author of Space
3 hours ago - Science

NASA confirms water exists on sunny parts of the Moon

Photo: NASA/JPL/USGS

Water on the Moon might be more easily accessible than previously thought, opening up new possible avenues for future human exploration, according to a new study.

Why it matters: NASA is aiming to send people back to the Moon as part of its Artemis program by 2024, with plans to eventually create a sustainable presence on the lunar surface. That sustainability relies on mining the moon for its resources, like water.

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