Editorial

We are halfway through the current baseball season, and congressional elections are just a few months away. So just what is America’s favorite pastime? Is it politics or baseball? Politics has always been a major spectator sport, particularly here in my home state of Louisiana. But don’t sell baseball short. Not only has baseball been around longer than any of America’s professional team sports, the game’s highs and lows have been injected in national politics almost from the sport’s inception.

In President Joe Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act, there are $288 billion of price controls for the Medicare Part D prescriptions drug benefit that are intended in part to offset the cost of $369 billion of green energy subsidies and a $69 billion Obamacare extension.
The goal of the price controls is to lower the price Medicare pays for certain drugs by allowing for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers.

Our politics are arguably more divided now than at any other time in modern history – however, the one thing that both Democrats and Republicans in Louisiana do agree on is the need to rein in Big Tech.
Big Tech companies – specifically Alphabet (Google) and Meta (Facebook) – have come to dominate nearly every aspect of our daily lives, and now wield tremendous amounts of power over the news, content, and information we watch, read, and listen to.