The soon-to-be-implemented paid family and medical leave tax in Massachusetts has so many problems that its supporters are calling for a three-month delay in implementing it, and many state legislators who approved the bill last year agree.
A coalition of labor and business groups who negotiated the so-called "grand bargain" last summer recently called for state legislators to delay the 0.63 percent payroll tax until October 1 instead of July 1, as currently provided by the new state law.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered all the Pavlovian anti-Trump dog whistles. She talked about walls and climate change. She mentioned gun violence and multilateralism. She referred to free trade and globalism. And she condemned nationalism and isolationism.
Checking off the liberal agenda, the only line she omitted was sharply rebuking "the deplorables."
