Democrats Think You’re “Rich”—Now Fork It Over by Allysia Finley If you earn more than $184,500, you are rich. Congratulations. Progressives don’t merely want to redistribute wealth. They want to raise taxes to aggrandize their own power and level opponents. Then they can decide what’s fair and who has enough. wsj.com/opinion/democrats-th… via @WSJopinion

American Exceptionalism Is No Myth The U.K. is poorer than every American state. Think about that. It’s extraordinary. The U.K. presents as a sophisticated, globally competitive country. The world speaks English, after all. The sun never sets on the supply of exquisitely talented British actors, writers and musicians. But as the Journal reports, the U.K. is suffocating under the weight of its bloated welfare state. A hardly believable 10% of the British population claims to be sick or disabled. The Brits themselves don’t seem to see it. When asked to imagine how they’d fit into the 50-state U.S. economic hierarchy, they rank themselves in the top 10. That is so far off the mark as to qualify as delusional. The U.S. contains within itself more than four dozen economic statelets that are more productive per-capita than the place that once produced Rolls-Royce, the Beatles, Harry Potter, etc. wsj.com/opinion/free-express…

Irish Eyes Are Blind to Antisemitism An EU conference of special envoys on anti-Jewish hate was rejected by Dublin’s Herbert Park Hotel. wsj.com/opinion/free-express… via @WSJFreeEx

Activist Psychiatrists Are Afraid of Evidence Who’s afraid of evidence-based medicine? The answer, regrettably, is the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, or Aacap. The organization—which strongly influences parents, policymakers and medical practice—has rebuffed our separate attempts to hold discussions on childhood gender transition at its annual meeting, which begins in Atlanta on Oct. 26. As psychiatrists ourselves, it pains us to say that Americans should ignore one of the most prestigious medical associations in our field for the sake of protecting children from lifelong harm. wsj.com/opinion/free-express… via @WSJFreeEx

🎯 ‘Digger’ Defenders Are Missing the Point The legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn deserves credit for, alongside the masterpieces he shepherded to the silver screen, supposedly coining an enduring phrase. “If you want to send a message,” Goldwyn purportedly once said, “call Western Union.” wsj.com/opinion/free-express… via @WSJFreeEx

Doing Capitalism the Chick-fil-A Way The outrage mob’s Chick-fil-A standard would make much of modern production impossible. As Leonard Reed explained in “I, Pencil,” even the production of something as simple as a No. 2 pencil involves everyone from cedar loggers in the Pacific Northwest to graphite miners in Sri Lanka. Do they all agree on gay rights—or anything else? Free-market cooperation and coordination promote social harmony. When people who would otherwise silo themselves off end up working together or trading, they see that everybody’s money is green. They also learn we’re often not as different as it seems. Yet the market’s push toward social harmony only works if we let it. If we start demanding to do business only with people who share our religious, social and political views, it all falls apart. And that would be nobody’s pleasure. wsj.com/opinion/free-express… via @WSJFreeEx

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Will any Democrats—or Republicans for that matter—learn from Sen. Dick Durbin’s apparent second thoughts on blowing up the filibuster? wsj.com/opinion/dick-durbin-… via @WSJopinion