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Coming to a federal government near you?

• Health care: Ed Morrissey on health care rationing, Peter Suderman on the history of state health care reform fiscal failures, and Jim Geraghty speculates why so many people suddenly now think health care is free.

• Dan Mitchell says we should be wary of efforts to impose a value added tax (something Scott Lincicome has been sounding the alarm on for a while). Just remember, no country has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

• Super Economy predicts better than even chances Republicans will take over the House of Representatives this November.

• Ryan Avent wonders if our politicians will now starting warning about the economic menace posed by Germany. Then again, playing on concerns of German economic domination is so 1991.

• Daniel Henninger looks at youth unemployment in Europe. Nearly half of those under 25 in Spain are jobless.