Overnight News: Dollar Tree can no longer promise that “everything’s a dollar!” – but it’s still where your dollar will go farther.

I love dollar stores, but more than that, I love Dollar Tree. The biggest Dollar Tree on earth is just up 99th Avenue, and, accordingly, mine is the idolatry of Dollar Tree: Sex toys, dog toys and all manner of helpful doo-dads and storage solutions.

It could be I like dollar stores because other people scorn them, but anti-snobbery only gets you so far: What I really like are the values. Spurned as returns and seconds, in fact the dollar store is just an alternative distribution channel: Name-brand goods in dollar-store-specific form factors and packaging. Everything is new and first-quality, it’s all just smaller and flimsier.

There was to have been a Willie story set at Dollar Tree, but BidenFlation has killed the punch line: “You can’t make a mistake at the dollar store, because, after all, it’s only a dollar.”

The joke is on all of us, though, especially the dollar-store snobs: Economies like the one we’re headed for is when dollar-stores grow their market share. Dollar Tree can no longer promise that “everything’s a dollar!” – but when you need to make your dollars go farther, that’s where you’ll go.

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American Thinker: The mother of real estate bubbles looms in China.

City Journal: The Menace of Moralism: Egalitarians seek the radical transformation of our society.