Additionally, Republican leaning districts, which overlap significantly with rural areas, see marked advantages compared to Democratic districts. These results highlight the potential for a VMT tax to address longstanding inequities in transportation funding

My internal (but late to the game) grammar police have called me to task for saying "are out" rather than "is out"

I said it was readable, not recommended. Most of their stuff doesn’t even get up to that standard.

Worse, he argues that one must tack on the German VAT to the country’s tariff, conveniently ignoring the fact that the VAT is charged on domestic as well as imported cars. Sigh!

First, he argues that the U.S. has a 2.5 percent tariff on German cars in contrast to the German rate of 10 percent. The U.S. rate is actually 25 percent – someone forgot to tell Gordon that Trump raised the rates a month before his lecture.

Gordon provided a decent history of tariffs and their destructive influence on the world economy, despite ignoring the incredibly destructive nature of Trump’s mercurial on-off again trade “policy” approach. But then he veers off the rails with a rant against German auto policy.

You're missing my point. Not meaning to generalize about anyone. But Vance is generalizing when he says judges are overturning "the will of the American people."