Trump Tax Reform Would Give Americans More Money To Spend

By William Teach April 26, 2017 – 7:09 am

Is there anything wrong with a tax plan that would put more money in the pockets of Americans, money that citizens, and businesses, have earned? The NY Times has found a way

Trump’s Tax Plan: Low Rate for Corporations, and for Companies Like His

President Trump plans to unveil a tax cut blueprint on Wednesday that would apply a vastly reduced, 15 percent business tax rate not only to corporations but also to companies that now pay taxes through the personal income tax code — from mom-and-pop businesses to his own real estate empire, according to several people briefed on the proposal.

They really just can’t help showing their Trump Derangement Syndrome by making it a lede regarding Trump’s businesses saving on taxes. Guess who else who save on taxes? The four article writers, as well as the NY Times! Surprise!

Then we have the Washington Post, which takes a little more realistic and adult approach

Trump plan would raise tax deductions, lower corporate and small business rates

President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens of millions of Americans, according to two people briefed on the plan.

The change is one of several major revisions to the federal tax code that the White House will propose when it provides an outline of the tax-overhaul pitch Trump will make to Congress and the American people as he nears his 100th day in office.

Trump will call for a sharp reduction in the corporate tax rate, from 35 percent to 15 percent. He will also propose lowering the tax rate for millions of small businesses that now file their tax returns under the individual tax code, two people familiar with the plan said.

White House officials think these changes will give Americans and companies more money to spend, expand the economy and create more jobs.

That’s pretty good, wouldn’t you say? Shouldn’t you be able to keep more of the money you earn? Republicans are discussing passing this through reconciliation, since Democrats are apparently not on-board with changing tax law so that citizens keep more of their own money and increase jobs.

Asked whether the 15 percent target was workable, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told reporters: “It is, if you want to blow a hole in the federal budget and cut a whole lot of things like Meals on Wheels and Lake Erie restoration and then lie about the growth rate of the economy.”

He said that the Trump administration would have to do something “huge” such as scrapping mortgage interest deductions, adopting a border adjustment tax or relying on “outrageously inaccurate projections.”

Obviously, Democrats will scaremonger over having to *gasp* reduce overall federal government spending. And recommend raising taxes on citizens elsewhere. Of course, if people, and companies, are spending more, if more people are working and paying taxes, then more money flows to the government. Perhaps it is time for government to learn to do more with less, to live within its means, like citizens and private entities do.

It’s mostly a well written, rather neutral, informative article, well worth the read.

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Bummer: Hotcoldwetdry Could Make People More Fit

By William Teach April 25, 2017 – 5:22 pm

This is horrid news

Silver Lining? Climate Change Could Make Americans More Fit

“Even the biggest fitness fanatics have at some point checked the day’s weather and then opted against a daily run. As the planet warms, that will happen less frequently, at least in the United States, a new study said.

Researchers in the new study looked at information on people’s physical activity along with historical weather data, making note of associations between weather and overall exercise levels. The scientists then applied those patterns to predictions for the future climate in the U.S. They concluded that although more days of extreme heat will discourage exercise, this will be overshadowed by the boost in American’s physical activity levels that will come with the increase in warm days.”

Shockingly, they concluded what we all know: people exercise more when it’s warm and less, get this, when it’s cold. So, according to this study, we should all drive more fossil fuels vehicles to make sure we can exercise more.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 25, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is coffee that shall soon be decimated by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Animal Magnetism, with a post on goodbye, blue Monday.

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‘Climate Change’ Could Literally Cause Sea Creatures To Dissolve Or Something

By William Teach April 25, 2017 – 10:30 am

The oceans are literally turning to acid, you guys! All because you refuse to pay carbon taxes!

Climate Change Could Cause Conditions That Literally Dissolve Sea Creatures

Seemingly every day, new evidence of climate change’s devastating impact on our planet emerges. The latest sounds like something out of a horror movie: creatures are literally dissolving right before our eyes.

Scientists from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) just published research in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences detailing their study of bryozoa, a class of invertebrate organisms also referred to as moss animals. They found that exposure to more acidic waters after being raised in warmer waters caused large sections of the animals to simply dissolve.

“We thought there would be some thinning or reduced mass,” said the study’s lead author Dan Swezey in a news release. “But whole features just dissolved practically before our eyes.”

Doooooooooommmm….oh, wait. This study didn’t actually happen in the oceans. The study didn’t actually look at the conditions of the bryozoa in the wild. It happened in a lab, where the scientists exposed the bryozoa to extreme conditions not seen in nature.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t some “what if?” undertaking. The conditions created as part of the study accurately mimic those currently found in the creatures’ natural habitat off the Californian coast. The increase of carbon in our atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels is being absorbed by the ocean, increasing its acidity, and animals like the bryozoa can’t survive in these new environments.

Um, no. Those conditions do not exist. The ocean acidification scare has been debunked time and time again. It is not a threat right now, and will most likely not be a threat later. It is yet another example of climate change scaremongering, meant to get government to enact taxes, fees, and restrictions on your life, to force you to stop using the same fossil fuels that the people who push this scaremongering refuse to give up themselves.

It’s not science: it’s politics.

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Illegals Are Provided Coaching On How To Avoid Deportation

By William Teach April 25, 2017 – 7:28 am

I wonder if all the groups are familiar with 8 U.S. Code 1324?

(Washington Times) Immigrant-rights groups released a new video Monday coaching illegal immigrants on their constitutional rights and how to avoid run-ins with federal deportation agents, as advocates gear up to try to thwart as many deportations as possible.

The video is part of a growing infrastructure designed to protect illegal immigrants from legal consequences under President Trump, and gives instructions on handling everything from encounters on the streets to when agents show up at a home with a deportation warrant.

“If they come here, to the house, don’t open the doors. ‘No abran las puertas,’” the advocates say in a 7-minute training video, released by a coalition that’s dubbed itself Informed Immigrant.

The video is aimed at children, who are encouraged to get their families to plan for potential encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and agents.

Already, officers say they’re seeing far fewer people willing to open doors to them in recent months as warnings take hold.

This is a violation of (A)(1)(a)(iv) and (v). But, really, few are ever charged with the statute. It’s usually those who smuggle illegals over the border. That said, as I’ve noted many times, it would be worthwhile for ICE to get warrants. Have a bunch of judges across the country, perhaps some retired ones who want a little something to do, who will authorize arrest/detain warrants for those who are unlawfully present in the U.S.

Of course, these are the types of people the activist groups are helping

Fortunately, we have grounded people working in the Senate

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Yeah, it is a crime to be unlawfully present in the United States. Illegally coming to the U.S. is actually a crime, for which “for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.” Overstaying visas has similar penalties.

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Trump Softens Stance On Border Wall To Push Budget Compromise Forward

By William Teach April 25, 2017 – 7:05 am

On one hand, Trump promised a wall. On the other, he has time. And the third hand, this is the kind of thing a businesses person does, who understands sometimes you have to give a little to get a little, and that compromises can be made. And that you pick your battles. Oh, and that the elected GOP are often squishes and are not willing to fight

(Washington Post) The White House sought Monday to calm a jittery Washington ahead of a showdown with Congress over spending, and President Trump softened his demand that a deal to keep the federal government open include money to begin construction on his long-promised border wall.

Despite one-party control at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, the brinkmanship that came to define spending battles in the Obama years has tumbled into the Trump era, as have the factional divisions over strategy and priorities that have gripped the GOP for a decade.

But with a Friday deadline looming to pass a new spending bill, the Trump administration projected confidence that a shutdown would be avoided. In the face of fierce Democratic opposition to funding the wall’s construction, White House officials signaled Monday that the president may be open to an agreement that includes money for border security if not specifically for a wall, with an emphasis on technology and border agents rather than a structure.

Trump showed even more flexibility Monday afternoon, telling conservative journalists in a private meeting that he was open to delaying funding for wall construction until September, a White House official confirmed.

The wall may be a campaign pledge, one which excites the Trump base, but, a full border stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific is unrealistic, and, even unpopular in many border areas. It would be worthwhile in certain areas, particularly those in the middle of nowhere, but

In a speech on the Senate floor, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted the idea of a wall while suggesting that a combination of smart technology and law enforcement, including the use of drones, would be “a much more effective way to secure the border” without hitting an impasse in Congress.

It’s strange when it’s Schumer having a good idea. Of course, in reality, he probably doesn’t want those things either, he’s just taking a position that is not broadcast as “open borders for all.” Yet, using more manpower, drones, and technology are better than a wall from sea to shining sea.

“I’d like to make it as clean as we can and fund the government,” said Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.). “I wouldn’t mind funding the wall, but it’s a question of what we can do. The question is, what’s doable and will we make the deadline?”

What the bill should do is fund the core government responsibilities as defined by the Constitution, and leave everything else to the states. No wasting the taxpayer’s money at the federal level. No more shrimp treadmills.

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Democrats Are Ready To Flex Their Muscles In Demanding Anti-law Measures For Spending Bill

By William Teach April 24, 2017 – 4:16 pm

Despite losing well over a thousand federal and state seats during the time of Obama, then losing the White House, Democrats are super enthused!

House Democrats grow bullish after Trump’s stumbles
Their fear of languishing in the minority is turning into hope for a quick revival.

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House Democrats are ready to flex their muscles, providing a list of demands Republicans must meet if they want Democratic votes to keep the government running beyond Friday. And they could be key players on tax reform and infrastructure in the coming months, if Trump ends up needing bipartisan buy-in.

What are they bullish about, in regards to the budget and demands?

Democratic leaders say they won’t accept a Republican proposal that funds Trump’s proposed border wall, pours federal dollars into a “deportation force” or blocks federal grants for so-called sanctuary cities, all top priorities for a White House looking for its first big legislative win.

Democrats also say Republicans must agree to maintain Obamacare subsidies for lower-income people in the spending bill, a program Trump has threatened to derail.

As to the first, the Democrats are demanding that the federal government ignore not only federal law, but the Constitutional provision that the federal government protect the country from foreign invasion. That the federal government excuse lower level government violating federal law.

That said, you do have to wonder how Congressional Republicans will surrender to the Democrats, like they do time and time again.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 24, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on yet another reason Trump was elected.

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New Meme: ‘Climate Change’ Wrongthink Is A Clear And Present Danger Or Something

By William Teach April 24, 2017 – 10:34 am

Recently, the Cult of Climastrology has been trotting out a new meme, namely, that failing to toe the line on anthropogenic climate change is big, big, big danger to everything. Previously, Warmists complained that failure to Do Something, which revolved around taxes, fees, and restrictions on citizens and private entities, was the danger. Now?

EDITORIAL: Climate change denial a clear and present danger

Climate change deniers come in many forms. Some — including the president of the United States — argue the whole thing is a hoax fostered by nefarious figures. Others will concede a degree of warming that’s simply part of a global cycle that can’t be altered. Some acknowledge that man-made emissions may have contributed to the warming, but not enough to justify jumping through environmental hoops to try to counter the impact.

What all of those denial theories have in common, however, is a dismissive attitude toward the effects of climate change — if those effects even exist in the skeptics’ minds. Rising sea levels, extreme weather and polluted air and water will mostly be our grandchildren’s problem, not ours. So why hurt businesses now in response to a manufactured crisis?

This is the Asbury Park Press editorial board, a leading newspaper along the New Jersey shore. They’re taking the opinion that no one is allowed to have a differing opinion on ‘climate change,’ because, otherwise, we’re doomed. Liberals are codifying their views on Wrongthink heavily to AGW. Liberals really do not like when people have divergent thoughts. Of course, the ABP was unable to actually, you know, prove the hypothesis that Mankind mostly/solely is at fault for the Modern Warm Period. Weird, right?

Also weird: the ABP uses vast amounts of carbon pollution spewing fossil fuels and energy, along with killing lots of trees, so that they can gather the news and disseminate it.

Then you have this guy

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science Deniers In Power Are A Profound Threat To Democracy

The U.S. grew from a “backwoods country” to one of “greatest nations the world has ever known” thanks to science — but that pillar of America is eroding, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warns.

Science deniers “rising to power” now create a “recipe for the complete dismantling of our informed democracy,” Tyson says in a powerful new video that he promises contains “what may be the most important words I have ever spoken.”

“People have lost the ability to judge what is true and what is not, what is reliable, what is not reliable,” he says in the above video, which he posted to Facebook Wednesday. “That’s not the country I remember growing up in. I don’t remember any other time where people were standing in denial of what science was.”

Warmists are equating disbelief in AGW with a denial of all science. Which is funny, considering these same Warmist typically are unable to state that there are just two sexes. But, hey, if you don’t believe in AGW, then you are dooming Democracy! Wrongthink to the max.

And you can bet this meme will continue to rise, where the Warmists go on a rampage against Wrongthink. You can see it happening on Twitter and Facebook and CoC blogs. Now it’s spreading into the higher level Warmist talking points.

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Democrat Big Wigs To Pro-Life Democrats: Get In Line Or Get Out

By William Teach April 24, 2017 – 9:07 am

Abortion on Demand with no restrictions has long been the holy grail of the Democratic Party. No issue is bigger or more important for them. Everything returns to abortion. And most of the big shots have a message for pro-life Democrats

(Daily Caller) The 28 percent of Democrats who oppose abortion have no place in the Democratic party, according to two of the party’s leading figures.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin echoed party chair Tom Perez Sunday in saying that there is no room in the party for dissent on the abortion issue.

“I am committed to women’s rights under the law, reproductive rights certainly, and our party is [committed],” Durbin said in an appearance on CNN. “We’ve made that part of our platform and position for a long, long time. I know within the ranks of the Democratic Party there are those who see that differently on a personal basis, but when it comes to the policy position, I think we need to be clear and unequivocal.”

Those who personally believe abortion is wrong can be allowed in the party, Durbin added, “as long as they are prepared to back the law, Roe versus Wade, prepared to back women’s rights as we’ve defined them under the law.” That is: all members of the Democratic party are expected to publicly support abortion, regardless of what they personally believe.

I wonder if this would have applied to Senator Harry Reid who, for most of his career, was pro-life, thought Roe v Wade should be overturned, and generally refused to support abortion except in cases of incest, rape, or when the mother’s life was in danger.

Nancy Pelosi was the almost voice of reason, or, more likely, attempted to protect the Democrats from idiots making proclamations that could drive Democrat voters away

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared to contradict Perez and Durbin on Sunday.

“Of course” Democrats can also be pro-life, Pelosi said on MSNBC. Pelosi quickly changed the subject, however, and did not address whether Democrats can support pro-life policies, in addition, to personally opposing abortion.

Democrats have long had a purity test for federally appointed judges, especially for the Supreme Court, continuously asking if the candidate would uphold Roe v Wade and other abortion “rights.” They will mostly abandon any Democrat running for office who is pro-life or not sufficiently pro-abortion.

In wondering why Democrats are fighting each other on abortion on demand, Bill Scher notes

(Real Clear Politics) NARAL Pro-Choice President Ilyse Hogue responded with force: “If Democrats think the path forward following the 2016 election is to support candidates who substitute their own judgement and ideology for that of their female constituents, they have learned all the wrong lessons and are bound to lose. It’s not possible to have an authentic conversation about economic security for women that does not include our ability to decide when and how we have children.”

Groups like NARAL are essentially the most important groups that back the Democrats. Displeasing them is a Bad Idea. And, apparently, we can’t discuss anything women related without making sure women who had unprotected sex while drunk can have an abortion whenever they want.

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