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Tax Reform Headed to High-Tax States?
by Political Editors
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Antifa Thug Receives Christmas Karma
From A Truck While Harassing Christians
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ The group, Patriot Prayer, had received a permit for and was holding a “March for Jesus”... in the radical-friendly city of Portland Oregon on Saturday. Some Antifa girly-thugs showed up and attempted to disrupt them. While they have no problem with public disruptions or marches, they are only acceptable to them if you’re spouting hate or threats. Otherwise, particularly if you’re a Christian group, you’re the enemy. The Video goes along highlighting the differences between the two, with one of the Antifa girly-thugs getting his feelings hurt and apparently feeling justified in his hateful display because of a flag with a cross on it, claiming it is a known “white supremacist” symbol... https://rickwells.us/antifa-thug-karma-truck/.
The VA illegally allowed hospitals to hire doctors with revoked medical licenses since 2002
by Kate Scanlon
{theblaze.com} ~ The Department of Veterans Affairs has illegally permitted its hospitals to repeatedly hire health care providers... with revoked medical licenses since 2002, according to USA Today. The report follows a USA Today investigation that revealed VA hospital officials knowingly hired doctors with past malpractice claims. USA Today reported that a federal law passed in 1999 bars the VA from employing any health care worker who has lost a medical license in any state. However, in 2002, the VA issued national guidelines permitting local hospitals to hire medical staff after “prior consideration of all relevant facts surrounding” any revoked licenses and as ong as they still were licensed in at least one state... http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/12/22/report-the-va-illegally-allowed-hospitals-to-hire-doctors-with-revoked-medical-licenses-since-2002.
Shin Bet Chief Tells Knesset:
Over 400 Attacks Thwarted in 2017
by Anna Ahronheim, Yonah Jeremy Bob
{jpost.com} ~ Shin Bet Chief Nadav Argaman said on Sunday that the security agency has thwarted over 400 terror attacks in 2017... including 13 suicide attacks and 8 kidnappings, as well as 1,100 potential lone wolf attacks. Argaman spoke at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday morning and warned that “the period of quiet we are experiencing is misleading; Hamas is hard at work trying to execute terrorist attacks.” He also came out against the death penalty, telling lawmakers he opposed Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman’s proposal to allow judges to sentence terrorists to death... http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Shin-Bet-chief-tells-Knesset-over-400-attacks-thwarted-in-2017-519885?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=24-12-2017&utm_content=shin-bet-chief-tells-knesset-over-400-attacks-thwarted-in-2017-519885.
Europe: The Islamization of Christmas
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ This year's Christmas season has been marked by Islam-related controversies in nearly every European country... Most of the conflicts have been generated by Europe's multicultural political and religious elites, who are bending over backwards to secularize Christmas, ostensibly to ensure that Muslims will not be offended by the Christian festival. Many traditional Christmas markets have been renamed — Amsterdam Winter Parade, Brussels Winter Pleasures, Kreuzberger Wintermarkt, London Winterville, Munich Winter Festival — to project a multicultural veneer of secular tolerance. More troubling are the growing efforts to Islamize Christmas. The re-theologizing of Christmas is based on the false premise that the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus (Isa) of the Koran. This religious fusion, sometimes referred to as "Chrislam," is gaining ground in a West that has become biblically illiterate... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11598/christmas-islamization-europe.
Reporter who ‘broke’ bogus Trump dossier story
responds to getting busted with links to FBI top lawyer
by Tom Tillison
{bizpacreview.com} ~ David Corn, the Mother Jones reporter linked to FBI general counsel James Baker... has declared that the bureau official is just “a fellow I know.” In what proved to be a bombshell report from Politico, documents show that Baker had close ties with Corn, the reporter who first broke news about the existence of the discredited Trump dossier during the presidential campaign. Appearing in the very friendly confines of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Corn said Saturday that while he has a relationship with Baker, who was reassigned, the FBI lawyer wasn’t the source for his article. “He’s a fellow I know,” Corn said. “He’s a social acquaintance, and I do have contact with him.”... http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/12/24/reporter-broke-bogus-trump-dossier-story-responds-getting-busted-links-fbi-top-lawyer-579582?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=BPR%20Email&utm_campaign=DMS.
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.Tax Reform Headed to High-Tax States?
by Political Editors: One of the most significant changes brought about by tax reform deals with the amount of state income taxes paid that residents can then deduct on their federal tax returns. This change has received the most vocal protests from the leaders of the high tax states of California and New York. California Governor Jerry Brown called Republicans a bunch of “mafia thugs,” while New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dramatically complained that the tax law was a “dagger to the economic heart of New York” and that it would ignite “an economic civil war” between high and low tax states.
But who is actually most affected by the GOP tax bill in these high-tax states? The short answer: high-income earners. As the Wall Street Journal explains:
The truth is that few taxpayers even in high tax states will be hurt because they won’t need a deduction beyond the $10,000 state-and-local cap in the bill. Tax writers estimate that only about 5% of households will even itemize their deductions because the bill nearly doubles the standard deduction to $24,000. Most affluent households who do itemize will also be held harmless because of tax-rate reductions.
But the tax math will be tricky for many high-earners in states with the highest tax rates. The bill reduces the top federal tax rate to 37% from 39.6% and increases the threshold at which it kicks in to $600,000 from $470,000 for couples filing jointly. Our friend Don Luskin did the math and says that high earners in states with top rates exceeding 6.56% could see their tax bills increase.
What these high-tax states will be facing is pressure to lower taxes in order to prevent high-income earners from moving out of state. As the Journal further explains:
The problem is more acute when you consider that the top 1% of earners pay nearly 50% of state income taxes in California and New York, and 37% in New Jersey. States may experience significant budget carnage if more high earners defect. To head off a high-earner revolt, Mr. Cuomo could seek to eliminate the millionaire’s tax he campaigned against in 2010 but has repeatedly extended. Mr. Brown could campaign to repeal the 3% surcharge on millionaires he championed in 2012.
Both California and New York, as well as the Democrat-run states of Oregon and Minnesota, for example, may soon be facing an increasing exodus of high-earners to the low-tax pastures. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53091
by Political Editors: One of the most significant changes brought about by tax reform deals with the amount of state income taxes paid that residents can then deduct on their federal tax returns. This change has received the most vocal protests from the leaders of the high tax states of California and New York. California Governor Jerry Brown called Republicans a bunch of “mafia thugs,” while New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dramatically complained that the tax law was a “dagger to the economic heart of New York” and that it would ignite “an economic civil war” between high and low tax states.But who is actually most affected by the GOP tax bill in these high-tax states? The short answer: high-income earners. As the Wall Street Journal explains:
The truth is that few taxpayers even in high tax states will be hurt because they won’t need a deduction beyond the $10,000 state-and-local cap in the bill. Tax writers estimate that only about 5% of households will even itemize their deductions because the bill nearly doubles the standard deduction to $24,000. Most affluent households who do itemize will also be held harmless because of tax-rate reductions.
But the tax math will be tricky for many high-earners in states with the highest tax rates. The bill reduces the top federal tax rate to 37% from 39.6% and increases the threshold at which it kicks in to $600,000 from $470,000 for couples filing jointly. Our friend Don Luskin did the math and says that high earners in states with top rates exceeding 6.56% could see their tax bills increase.
What these high-tax states will be facing is pressure to lower taxes in order to prevent high-income earners from moving out of state. As the Journal further explains:
The problem is more acute when you consider that the top 1% of earners pay nearly 50% of state income taxes in California and New York, and 37% in New Jersey. States may experience significant budget carnage if more high earners defect. To head off a high-earner revolt, Mr. Cuomo could seek to eliminate the millionaire’s tax he campaigned against in 2010 but has repeatedly extended. Mr. Brown could campaign to repeal the 3% surcharge on millionaires he championed in 2012.
Both California and New York, as well as the Democrat-run states of Oregon and Minnesota, for example, may soon be facing an increasing exodus of high-earners to the low-tax pastures. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53091
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