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The Stupid Party Gets Smart
by Stephen Moore
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Fusion GPS Bank Records Unsealed –
What About Complicit Journalists?
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ The swamp creatures have an endless variety of ways of dragging out and obstructing investigations into their criminal wrongdoing... They seem to also have more than enough help from within the judiciary and executive branch departments and agencies to keep things stalled until a political criminal can once again be installed as President. The much awaited unsealing of the Fusion GPS bank records happened on Tuesday, with only information related to transactions with two law firms visible. Their favorite black marker was applied to everything else, including the names of journalists they employed as paid propagandists. There was nothing visible regarding their payments to Christopher Steele, the Trump dossier creator, nor any other information that might prove of interest... https://rickwells.us/fusion-gps-unsealed-journalists/.
Iran Using German Firms
to Run Counterfeiting Operation
by Vijeta Uniyal
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Two German companies have been hit with sanctions by the US Treasury Department for their involvement in a multimillion-dollar counterfeiting ring run by the Iranian regime... Hundreds of millions of dollars in Yemeni bank notes were counterfeited with the help of Iran's elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), US Treasury Department said. The two German companies were being used as a front to deceive the European suppliers to procure high-tech printing machinery, and other materials needed to run the counterfeiting operation. Last month, the US formally added Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the anti-terrorism sanctions list for providing support to a number of terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Taliban... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/iran-using-german-firms-run-counterfeiting-operation.
The Left Keeps Lying About Tax Reform
by Amelia Hamilton
{truthrevolt.org} ~ In case you missed AM Joy on MSNBC this morning, and I'm going to assume that you did, here's what happened... Romina Boccia of the Heritage Foundation discussed the new GOP tax plan and Austin Goolsbee, former chair on the council of economic advisors under President liar-nObama, made things up with an assist from host Joy Reid. Reid came armed with things like a chart that showed millionaires would be raking in the benefits of this plan while poor people with sick children would be hung out to dry, a chart which Boccia said was "highly misleading, because it assumes that all of the tax changes that are set to expire will actually be allowed to expire. I don't think that's going to happen. Most likely, lawmakers will reverse those long before those will expire."... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/left-keeps-lying-about-tax-reform.
North Korea Defectors Report Eating
Own Lice, Other Desperate Survival Measures
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ The recent defection and life threatening escape of a 24-year-old soldier identified only as “Oh” from North Korea to the South... has brought increased attention to the situation of people living under the brutal regime of Kim Jong-un. Oh is presently hospitalized with gunshot wounds delivered at the hands of his fellow soldiers and an infestation of stomach parasites. Others who have escaped from the North report their own hellish experiences with day to day survival. One who is telling his story is Lee Wi-ryeok, who described his childhood in a North Korea orphanage during the late 90s. He says he’s haunted by the horrors of his childhood to this day. He talked of how tuberculosis and other diseases were often fatal due to a lack of medicine... https://rickwells.us/n-korean-defectors-eating-lice/.
VIDEOSCan Republicans Fix The State And Local Taxes (SALT) Problem?
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No Surprise: Students Reject US Flag More Than ISIS Flag At UC Berkeley.
Creepy Uncle loose lips-Joe, The Former SCHMOTUS.
Trump Is Rebooting The Federal Judiciary.
Detroit Free Press: Rep. John Conyers Must Resign.
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The Stupid Party Gets Smart
{townhall.com} ~ Republicans have long been known as "the stupid party." They do stupid things, such as waiting until mid-November to push a must-pass tax cut that should have been done by April.
But in recent weeks the GOP is finally showing some brains and some backbone on taxes. They are using their majorities in Congress to roll back and roll over the left, and it's about time. In a more rational world, tax reform could have been bipartisan. But once Democrats declared they would be unified obstructionists on tax reform, there was no reason to throw a bone to the "resistance movement." Playing nice with Chuck clown-Schumer won't buy any votes, so why bother?
It's hard not to be impressed with how Republicans have instead suddenly gotten very smart on the "pay fors" in their tax bill. Three of these revenue raisers are welcome policy changes, and they help defund the left.
Start with the elimination of the state and local tax deduction. Congress shouldn't subsidize flabby and inefficient state and local services and bankrupt public pension programs. Just as one would predict, the states with the highest taxes are Democrat-controlled states. There is no evidence that higher taxes in these states lead to better schools or safer streets. New York spends around $7,500 per person on state and local government, while New Hampshire spends less than $4,500. Yet public services are better in New Hampshire than in New York.
The big blue states must cut their taxes and costs, or the stampede of high-income residents from these states will accelerate. The big losers here are the public employee unions -- the mortal enemies of Republicans. This all works out nicely.
Next is the decision by Republicans to offset the cost of the tax cut by eliminating the individual mandate tax imposed mostly on moderate-income Americans. About three of four people who pay the tax earn less than $50,000 a year. The purpose of the tax is to force low-income Americans to purchase insurance they either don't want or can't afford.
Isn't it amazing that liar-nObamacare provides subsidies to Americans if they buy the insurance and imposes penalties if they don't, yet at least 13 million Americans still refuse to buy it? What a great product this must be.
Eliminating the individual mandate will allow poorer and younger Americans to buy less expensive forms of coverage, such as health savings accounts. These additional options will lead to the slow death of liar-nObamacare. Smart.
Finally, there is the proposed tax on college endowments. These are massive storehouses of wealth: Harvard and Yale combined sit on a nest egg of almost $60 billion, enough to give every student free tuition at these schools from now until forever. Instead, these university endowments act like giant financial trading dynasties, with very little of the largesse going to help students pay tuition. The GOP plan would put a small tax on the unspent money in the endowments if they don't start spending the money down. My only complaint is that the tax is way too low. But the first shot against the university-industrial complex has finally been fired.
The productivity of American universities, as Richard Vedder of Ohio University has documented, continues to decline. Vedder also found that university tuitions don't go down when these schools have bigger endowments. They go up. These endowments subsidize the six- and seven-figure salaries of pompous, tired, and tenured professors who teach four or five hours a week and administrators. Bravo to Republicans for starting to turn off the spigot.
The best indication that this is all working is the rise of what I call the "tax-bill crybaby caucus." This group consists of health insurance companies, liar-nObamacare supporters, public employee unions, state and local officials, the welfare lobby, municipal bond traders, lobbyists and, most of all, the liberal politicians who are funded by all of the above.
Not only are we getting pro-growth tax policy but also Donald Trump and the GOP are finally draining the swamp. It doesn't get any better than this.
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