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President Trump Must Take Charge on Tax Reform
by David Limbaugh
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The Texas Model of Disaster Recovery
by Nate Jackson: More than a week after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, there are still many storylines from Houston and the surrounding area. The enormous economic cost is certainly one of the most dominant, as is the human toll — 45 confirmed deaths, a number that will likely grow. And as we warned a week ago, the mainstream media has tried to politicize the hurricane to make Donald Trump look bad, though they’ve been largely unsuccessful. We also relayed early on the heartwarming stories of people helping people through the torrential rain and resulting catastrophic flooding.
As the water recedes, that story hasn’t changed. Even Beltway media establishments like The Washington Post can’t help but take note. The Post reports about one woman who began using social media to coordinate response efforts, saying, “[She] was part of an unprecedented do-it-yourself relief effort that came to define Hurricane Harvey. After the storm blew into Houston, a remarkable network of boat owners with smartphones, worried neighbors with laptops and digital wizards with mapping software popped up to summon and support an army of Good Samaritans who motored, rowed and waded into dangerous waters to save family, friends and total strangers.” In fact, the Post notes, “The ‘We the People’ response seemed distinctly Texan, an outgrowth of the state’s almost genetic disinclination to rely on the government for anything — and in some cases, resolute willingness to defy it.”
And then in a line almost guaranteed to make a reader spew coffee, the Post — The Washington Post — says “no government response could ever have been enough.”
Now that’s not in any way to diminish the valiant rescue and recovery efforts of local law enforcement, National Guard, Coast Guard, FEMA or any other government agency, but it is to say government is government, and that means sometimes slow and bloated. Citizens working on their own behalf are always more agile, and helping your neighbor will always be more personal than processing applicant number 8,042 in a government wait line.
Case in point: the argument in Washington about how to fund relief efforts. Funding anything at the federal level is always an exercise in partisan posturing, and this is no different. Should the billions in Harvey relief be a clean bill, or should it be tied to the upcoming debt ceiling hike? Republicans disagree on that question, never mind Democrats. There will be much theater on that subject in the coming days and weeks, but in the meantime, Texans are pulling up their own bootstraps. ~The Patriot Post
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RINO Sen Flake Demands TRUMP
Break PROMISE To Americans On DACA
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Open borders globalist RINO Senator Jeff Flake attempted to defend his surrender of American sovereignty and advocacy for DACA amnesty, the current slice of the amnesty pie the leftists are pushing... In response to a tweet of his that the United States needs to take immediate action to help DACA “kids,” many of whom are adults, CNN’s Dana Bash plays a clip of President Trump making a campaign promise we wish he had kept and which is still driving this conversation. Trump promises in the clip, “We will immediately terminate ‘president’ liar-nObama’s two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants.” Bash asks why President Trump should go back on that popular promise... http://rickwells.us/rino-sen-flake-demands-trump-break-promise-americans-daca/
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Tucker Carlson Spars With BLM Supporter Over
Op-Ed Asking White People To Give Up Their Property
by Jonathan Pincus
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Black Lives Matter of Louisville organizer Chanelle Helm’s op-ed calling on white people to surrender their money and property and give it away to black people did not settle well with Fox News host Tucker Carlson... and he made his thoughts on the matter clear Thursday while debating a Black Lives Matter supporter. Helm’s August op-ed for Louisville newspaper Leo Weekly, titled “White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader,” said white people “who can afford to downsize” should give up their homes “to a black or brown family.” The article also requested white people without descendants leave their property to black or brown families, and asked real estate developers to build “sustainable” complexes that black and brown people can live in for free... https://www.westernjournalism.com/tucker-carlson-spars-blm-supporter-over-op-ed-asking-whites-give-up-property/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Trump News Censored By Nanny Kelly –
Only Allowed Pro-Globalist Establishment Reporting
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Communicating the non-establishment message to President Trump is, as feared, becoming impossible under the watchful eye of his filter and censor, White House chief of staff General John Kelly... President Donald Trump has noticed the absence of non-leftist, non globalist oriented publications, the Daily Caller and Breitbart from his sanitized viewing material lists prepared daily by the news nanny. The New York Times reports that on Friday he asked about it. The Times reports, “Mr. Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering, but Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.”... http://rickwells.us/trump-news-censored-nanny-kelly-allowed-pro-globalist-establishment-reporting/.
VIDEOS
General Mattis: Any Threat To US Or Its Allies Will Be Met With MASSIVE Military Reponse
VIDEOSGeneral Mattis: Any Threat To US Or Its Allies Will Be Met With MASSIVE Military Reponse
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Treasury Sec. Mnuchin Talks Responding To N. Korea By Cutting It Off Economically
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Netanyahu, “Children To Be Taught To Love And Respect, Not To Hate And Kill”
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Guy Saves His House From Harvey Flood With Aqua-Dam, New Product Found On Internet
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Rick Santorum Holds His Own
In 3 on 1 With Open Borders DACA Pushers
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Former Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum goes up against a hostile panel of leftists and open borders advocates in a debate about DACA... He faces off against former Commerce Secretary under George Bush, the RINO, Cuban born servant to the US Chamber of Commerce, Carlos Guiterrez. Also part of the pro-DACA, pro-open borders panel are George Soros mouthpiece Neera Tanden and far-leftist congresswoman, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). Santorum leads off by voicing an opinion that is contrary to the actions of the dictator Hussein liar-nObama, who created this whole DACA mess in the first place by violating the Constitution and writing his own law, saying, “I hope the President Trump abides by the rule of law, which is, the law does not allow him, any president to uniformly just stop enforcing the law.”... http://rickwells.us/rick-santorum-holds-3-1-open-borders-daca-pushers/
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by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ If you thought the left weaponized class warfare rhetoric in the health care debate, just wait until tax reform is front and center. The fate of this reform will depend on President Trump's leadership and GOP conviction.
The importance of Republican conviction goes without saying, right? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean we need to just accept GOP fecklessness and incompetence and quit talking about it. Eventually, President Trump's success and future GOP congressional majorities depend on whether Republicans really stand for their core values and the positions nominally affirmed in their platform. Reducing the tax burden on corporations and businesses is on any conservative's shortlist.
Republicans need to think through this and decide what their goals are. Are they really about maximizing liberty, reducing government taxes and regulations and stimulating economic growth -- and not just paying lip service?
The positive business atmosphere Trump's victory ushered in and his market-friendly attitude have already yielded significantly positive results. We've just seen quarterly growth reach 3 percent. The stock market is thriving. Unemployment is down. Manufacturing is up. Overall, businesses are poised for growth.
Trump has done more than just champion business through his bully pulpit. He's reduced onerous regulations, taken steps to loosen the left's environmental straitjacket and issued orders to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects as part of a comprehensive rejection of liar-nObama's war on conventional energy.
But these advancements and numerous others will represent a hollow victory if pro-growth tax reform legislation isn't passed in the near future.
Given guaranteed Democratic demagoguery and mainstream-media propaganda, President Trump and his rudderless Republican congressional majorities have their work cut out for them.
I believe that President Trump made a mistake in his handling of health care reform by not commandeering the leadership role. It wasn't enough for him to say he would sign whatever bill the Republicans passed. He needed to embrace and articulate concrete and detailed policy objectives. For whatever reason, he didn't clearly and forcefully present his policy goals, much less propose specific provisions to effectuate them. He can't make that mistake with tax reform.
It's true that bills originate and must be passed in Congress before they get to the president, but effective reforming presidents have historically led or co-led major pieces of legislation for which they have later been credited.
Just look at how instrumental President liar-nObama was in passing liar-nObamacare. Likewise, on major tax reform legislation, who can deny President John F. Kennedy's pivotal role in passing marginal income tax cuts?
To be sure, Rep. Jack Kemp helped inspire the Reagan tax cuts, but President Reagan personally invested himself and his legacy in passage of his first major tax bill, which reduced marginal income tax rates by 25 percent across the board.
Reagan went over the heads of the liberal media and took his case to the American people. He had been a fierce advocate for personal liberty and the free market long before he took office, so he was particularly equipped to argue his case to the American jury.
Reagan didn't approach the issue one-dimensionally. Yes, he explained that individual and corporate earnings were first the property of individuals and corporations and not the government -- rejecting the liberal notion that all property is the government's and the people are entitled to only what the leviathan, in its beneficence, allows them to retain. He also pleaded the tougher case that reductions in marginal rates spur economic growth by providing economic incentives and unleashing the power of the market.
President Reagan, certain congressional leaders and other thought leaders were intellectually grounded in every aspect of these issues and, just as importantly, truly believed in what they were selling. One of the most inspiring political books I've ever read was "An American Renaissance," by Jack Kemp, who eloquently laid out the rudimentary concept that a rising tide lifts all boats. Contrary to the then-universally accepted Keynesian notion, Kemp argued we could enjoy economic growth without inflation. The late William F. Buckley was a great admirer of Kemp's in those days and marveled at his contagious enthusiasm in presenting his ideas. Too bad we couldn't bottle that up and use it now.
History vindicated Reagan and Kemp. We experienced unprecedented economic growth without inflation, and the plight of all income groups, from the lowest 20 percent of earners to the highest 20 percent, improved. President liar-Clinton's revisionism notwithstanding, the Reagan tax record is powerful and irrefutable. I am not denying that monetary policy was important, as well, but the tax cuts were paramount.
I would respectfully urge President Trump to approach tax reform wholly differently than he did with health care reform. I'd love it if he would read Kemp's book, become a true believer -- even more than he is now -- and take the lead role in shaping and driving this legislation through Congress. If he doesn't stake out a firm policy position, he will have no credibility or leverage to push congressional foot-draggers.
It won't do for Trump to telegraph his flexibility -- telling GOP lawmakers he'll sign whatever they send him. He needs to be engaged and first send them a bold blueprint that evidences his confidence in the drive, ingenuity and sheer economic power of the American individual when unshackled from the chains of the federal government. He must not succumb to pressure to punish the so-called wealthy unless he wants to sabotage his own efforts.
We must remember that some 50 percent of Americans don't even pay income taxes, which is astonishing on multiple levels. The so-called wealthy already pay more than their fair share, so let's not go wobbly trying to defend lies to the contrary. Enough will never be enough for the demagogic left.
President Trump must be prepared to make the case that for tax cuts to work as intended -- to actually stimulate growth -- they must be across-the-board and substantial. This is the time for him to make a defining statement on economic policy and to take charge. My copy of "An American Renaissance" is available.
President Trump Must Take Charge on Tax Reform
{townhall.com} ~ If you thought the left weaponized class warfare rhetoric in the health care debate, just wait until tax reform is front and center. The fate of this reform will depend on President Trump's leadership and GOP conviction.
The importance of Republican conviction goes without saying, right? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean we need to just accept GOP fecklessness and incompetence and quit talking about it. Eventually, President Trump's success and future GOP congressional majorities depend on whether Republicans really stand for their core values and the positions nominally affirmed in their platform. Reducing the tax burden on corporations and businesses is on any conservative's shortlist.
Republicans need to think through this and decide what their goals are. Are they really about maximizing liberty, reducing government taxes and regulations and stimulating economic growth -- and not just paying lip service?
The positive business atmosphere Trump's victory ushered in and his market-friendly attitude have already yielded significantly positive results. We've just seen quarterly growth reach 3 percent. The stock market is thriving. Unemployment is down. Manufacturing is up. Overall, businesses are poised for growth.
Trump has done more than just champion business through his bully pulpit. He's reduced onerous regulations, taken steps to loosen the left's environmental straitjacket and issued orders to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects as part of a comprehensive rejection of liar-nObama's war on conventional energy.
But these advancements and numerous others will represent a hollow victory if pro-growth tax reform legislation isn't passed in the near future.
Given guaranteed Democratic demagoguery and mainstream-media propaganda, President Trump and his rudderless Republican congressional majorities have their work cut out for them.
I believe that President Trump made a mistake in his handling of health care reform by not commandeering the leadership role. It wasn't enough for him to say he would sign whatever bill the Republicans passed. He needed to embrace and articulate concrete and detailed policy objectives. For whatever reason, he didn't clearly and forcefully present his policy goals, much less propose specific provisions to effectuate them. He can't make that mistake with tax reform.
It's true that bills originate and must be passed in Congress before they get to the president, but effective reforming presidents have historically led or co-led major pieces of legislation for which they have later been credited.
Just look at how instrumental President liar-nObama was in passing liar-nObamacare. Likewise, on major tax reform legislation, who can deny President John F. Kennedy's pivotal role in passing marginal income tax cuts?
To be sure, Rep. Jack Kemp helped inspire the Reagan tax cuts, but President Reagan personally invested himself and his legacy in passage of his first major tax bill, which reduced marginal income tax rates by 25 percent across the board.
Reagan went over the heads of the liberal media and took his case to the American people. He had been a fierce advocate for personal liberty and the free market long before he took office, so he was particularly equipped to argue his case to the American jury.
Reagan didn't approach the issue one-dimensionally. Yes, he explained that individual and corporate earnings were first the property of individuals and corporations and not the government -- rejecting the liberal notion that all property is the government's and the people are entitled to only what the leviathan, in its beneficence, allows them to retain. He also pleaded the tougher case that reductions in marginal rates spur economic growth by providing economic incentives and unleashing the power of the market.
President Reagan, certain congressional leaders and other thought leaders were intellectually grounded in every aspect of these issues and, just as importantly, truly believed in what they were selling. One of the most inspiring political books I've ever read was "An American Renaissance," by Jack Kemp, who eloquently laid out the rudimentary concept that a rising tide lifts all boats. Contrary to the then-universally accepted Keynesian notion, Kemp argued we could enjoy economic growth without inflation. The late William F. Buckley was a great admirer of Kemp's in those days and marveled at his contagious enthusiasm in presenting his ideas. Too bad we couldn't bottle that up and use it now.
History vindicated Reagan and Kemp. We experienced unprecedented economic growth without inflation, and the plight of all income groups, from the lowest 20 percent of earners to the highest 20 percent, improved. President liar-Clinton's revisionism notwithstanding, the Reagan tax record is powerful and irrefutable. I am not denying that monetary policy was important, as well, but the tax cuts were paramount.
I would respectfully urge President Trump to approach tax reform wholly differently than he did with health care reform. I'd love it if he would read Kemp's book, become a true believer -- even more than he is now -- and take the lead role in shaping and driving this legislation through Congress. If he doesn't stake out a firm policy position, he will have no credibility or leverage to push congressional foot-draggers.
It won't do for Trump to telegraph his flexibility -- telling GOP lawmakers he'll sign whatever they send him. He needs to be engaged and first send them a bold blueprint that evidences his confidence in the drive, ingenuity and sheer economic power of the American individual when unshackled from the chains of the federal government. He must not succumb to pressure to punish the so-called wealthy unless he wants to sabotage his own efforts.
We must remember that some 50 percent of Americans don't even pay income taxes, which is astonishing on multiple levels. The so-called wealthy already pay more than their fair share, so let's not go wobbly trying to defend lies to the contrary. Enough will never be enough for the demagogic left.
President Trump must be prepared to make the case that for tax cuts to work as intended -- to actually stimulate growth -- they must be across-the-board and substantial. This is the time for him to make a defining statement on economic policy and to take charge. My copy of "An American Renaissance" is available.
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