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You might expect me to write about birthright citizenship today. Can't bring myself to.

My YouTube channel has a video about it, and subscribers of my print newsletter already know the arguments in detail.

(It's another case of Ben Shapiro batting a thousand, by the way: he was super enthusiastic about Amy Coney Barrett.)

Instead, there's this topic: there's been controversy over the "progressive" claim that USAID cuts amount to "murder."

If you don't send money to people, you see, you are killing them.

One of my favorite trolls, Jeremy Kauffman, said yesterday that by this logic he had evidently killed several Africans that morning by buying an omelette instead of sending the money to Africa.

Nicholas Kristof, who leveled the charge, was asked for specific names. Who are people who were "killed" by this?

He proceeded to give an example of someone who is said to have died "because [Elon] Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia."

Say that again?

The American taxpayer is on the hook for diesel in a particular part of Liberia?

In what moral calculus in a situation like this does the American taxpayer enter the picture at all? Diesel fuel in Liberia? How is that anywhere in the top 25,000 concerns -- or responsibilities -- of an American citizen?

All three of the socially leftist billionaires who helped shovel tens of millions of dollars into a congressional race in Kentucky to unseat a right-wing congressman and thereby make sure a foreign country's interests prevailed could have solved that diesel fuel problem with a single check.

How many Africans did they kill by spending their money propping up "Ed Gallrein" instead?

A fellow named Nick Price said: well, if you start sending money and then take it away, that's killing.

So let me get this straight:

If I send $1 billion to some Third World cause and then stop, I'm a murderer. "Nick Price," on the other hand, who has never sent anyone a damn thing but who demonstrates his moral superiority by lecturing me, is the hero of the story?

Kristof says "we were saving 1 life every 10 seconds with USAID." But note the crazy moral reasoning he's twisted himself into. As someone else on X notes, we could have been saving two lives every 10 seconds or even 10 lives every 10 seconds had we spent more on USAID, but Kristof was content to let all those people die under USAID’s old funding level.

So even Kristof himself is implicated in murder!

It's insane.

At this point everyone knows how countries emerge from poverty, but more importantly: you are not responsible for all the world's problems. You are responsible for those closest to you. No progress could occur anywhere if we let ourselves be controlled by this kind of emotional blackmail.

And as a matter of fact, we have preliminary 2025 mortality data for several African countries, and if I asked you to identify where on the chart USAID money was cut, you couldn't do it. There is no signal in the data at all.

It's exactly like Covid: here's a chart, and I'd like you to tell me when they implemented the mask mandate or the vaccine passport, and you have no way of knowing because those things don't show up in the numbers at all.

So let's recap the claims we're seeing heading mainstream, that have become very pronounced just over the past week:

* Elon Musk should be expropriated because it's immoral to be a trillionaire; being a trillionaire means he has one trillion one-dollar bills lying around, and we should confiscate that to solve the world's problems.

If you think this analysis will be applied only to Elon and not also to you, you're crazy.

* Landlords deserve to be punished. We want lower rents, but more than that we want the landlord class to suffer.

This is all over social media right now.

* Any newborn whose parents have so much as touched American soil is automatically a U.S. citizen (this is not what the Fourteenth Amendment says), and may if he so chooses vote to raid your retirement account.

* Taxing unrealized gains is another way to acquire additional government revenue.

* Wealth taxes are how to crack into additional sources of government revenue.

If you think this is going to be confined to "rich" people, you are naive.

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