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Trump's 2 biggest wins in his 1st 100 days
by Gina Loudon
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Heh! North Korea Threatens China
On Sunday, Americans Will Be Free
By Michael Swartz: For many years the Tax Foundation has performed a fairly complex set of calculations to find a simple and sobering result: the calendar date that American taxpayers finally pay off their total annual toll to the government — that is, their individual local, state and federal tax bills as an aggregate. The lone spot of good news is that we're close. On average, Americans will pay off that onerous debt on Sunday, April 23 — one day earlier than last year. Still, it's hardly cause for celebration.
The results are even more telling when the data are distilled to a state level. Taxpayers fortunate enough to live in Mississippi were freed from their overall tax burden back on April 5 — a full 47 days sooner than those who live in the lowest-ranked state, Connecticut. Those of us in our humble shop in Tennessee could celebrate back on April 7, as we have the nation's second-lightest burden. And if you happen to be reading this in Utah today, allow us to wish you a happy Tax Freedom Day.
All of this is a relatively light-hearted way of comparing the burdens we all pay. Given the government spends an average of $31,154 per household, it's more sobering to realize just where that money will go. By far the largest individual portion ($12,141) goes to the combination of Social Security and Medicare. The second-largest amount goes to programs lumped together under the "anti-poverty" banner ($6,143), with defense coming in third ($4,696). Per-household defense spending, however, barely outstrips the $4,393 deficit added to the national debt on each household's behalf.
Over the last three decades, the Tax Freedom date has fluctuated with the general mood of the government in power at the time. Tax cuts under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have moved the date forward on the calendar, with George H.W. Bush, Bill liar-Clinton and Barack liar-nObama increasing rates, thus lengthening the time needed to get to Tax Freedom Day.
Like some of his GOP predecessors, revising and simplifying the individual tax code was a point on Donald Trump's agenda as well, but his main thrust was a desire to cut the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. It's a point that scores well with four supply-side economics gurus. Writing in The New York Times, Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Art Laffer and Stephen Moore argue that Trump needs to score a tax victory this summer, and the best place to begin is to cut corporate tax rates and allow for immediate, full deduction of the cost of their capital purchases. Add to that a modest repatriation fee on bringing foreign profits back to the United States, and the quartet believes these changes will help the economy. "The additional increase in real wages could be nearly 10 percent over the next decade, which would reverse 15 years of income stagnation for the working class in America," they write. "And, if we are right that tax cuts will spur the economy, then the faster economic growth as a result of the bill will bring down the deficit."
Somewhat more controversial about the approach that Forbes and his colleagues take is the idea that, as a sweetener to attract Democrat votes, a dedicated infrastructure fund should be created from the repatriated foreign profits. Regarded as a "good move politically," if nothing else, it would kill two of Trump's birds with one stone: corporate tax reform would be combined with investment in infrastructure.
In the short term, this free-market quartet concedes that tax cuts would enlarge the deficit, which was the case initially under both Reagan and Bush (43) when they reduced tax rates. But that would create a boon to the economy and lead to an increase in federal revenue, thus shrinking the deficit in years to come. This, of course, assumes that adults take charge of the purse strings and refrain from spending the new revenue before it comes in.
To bring this full circle, it's worth going beyond the Tax Foundation's report abstract to a chart that tracks Tax Freedom Day over time. A century ago, on the eve of World War I (and just after the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment) Tax Freedom Day occurred in late January. Although there's been a little bit of relief since 2000, the year Tax Freedom Day fell on May 1 — "May Day" was perhaps appropriate, as this was during the last year of Comrade liar-nClinton's term of office — the fact that we spend well past a quarter of each year rendering unto Caesar should give everyone pause and make us question how we came to this point. ~The Patriot Post
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ If there were any doubts about the sanity of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s chubby little despot, this should eliminate any doubt that the guy’s crayon box is missing a few colors… Un is a nut job who’s now threatening his country’s only remaining ally and one of the strongest nations in the world–>China. The North Koreans made the threat via an op-ed written by a person named Jong Phil in the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA),apparently as a reaction to China’s threats of sanctions should crazy Un test a nuclear device. In a related story President of China Xi Jinping came close to peeing his pants when he heard the North Korean threat…not out of fear but because he couldn’t stop laughing...
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Calif Senator Smears Trump, Sessions, Shaw...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Pro-invasion anti-American scumbag and California State Senate Leader Kevin De Leon is attacking Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump in what has now become their disgusting default argument of white supremacy and racism... Not rolling over to invading conquerors, squatters and thieves is racist, according to the bigoted anti-white, anti-American trash making the assertions. Jamiel Shaw, whose son Jamiel Jr. was killed in 2008 by an illegal immigrant released from jail that same day, who ICE had issued a detainer for that was not honored, says he feels disrespected by the statements of De Leon. He says, “It’s always like he wants to demean the victims by calling us racists or like I’m a skinhead or a white supremacist, you know, instead of just saying we’re pissed off parents. You know, we miss our kids, we loved our kids, and they want to act like our kids were never born, they just never existed. It’s not fair.” Abby Huntsman clarifies, “So it’s not about white supremacy,” an obviously ridiculous question to which Shaw replies, “Of course not, he knows it’s not... http://rickwells.us/calif-senator-smears-trump-sessions-shaw-whose-son-was-killed-by-calif-policies/
.AG Sessions Too Much, Too Positive
For Stephanopolous And His Liberal Agenda
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions made an appearance on the program of Democrat operative George Stephanopoulos, ABC this Weak on Sunday. Sessions and the administration are finding ways to get things done in spite of the Democrats best efforts... and that seems to have George a little on edge. Little George’s job is to attack and diminish, find fault and in general just make President Trump, his administration and Cabinet officials look bad. He does his best. AG Sessions didn’t make it easy on the boy, though, saying, “I know one thing, we need that wall, it’ll help us complete the promise that the President has made to the American people. That’s what they want, the American people have a right to expect it, and I believe Congress will eventually deliver.” Stephanopoulos asked one of his prepared, specially crafted gotcha questions, “As you know it’s not just the Democrats who are opposed to the wall, the Wall Street Journal reports that not a single member of the House or the Senate from the border states would commit to funding the wall... http://rickwells.us/ag-sessions-much-positive-george-stephanopolous-liberal-agenda/
.The Air, Ground, and Sub-Surface Threats
in a War with North Korea
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ With tensions mounting on the Korean Peninsula, the US focusing on force multipliers in the region, and President Donald Trump showing a resolve to confront tyrants as his missile strike against in Syria demonstrated... we hear North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's bravado. Pyongyang's "Incredible Bulk" claims he is "not frightened" by Trump and that "full-scale war" will result from any US action. Such comments are unsurprising from one whose sole military experience involved occasionally wearing a uniform, once as a child and later while being groomed for a leadership role by his father. Doubtful too is that Kim has been briefed by his military concerning its abysmal performance against the U.S. years earlier in the only known US-North Korean air combat encounters to occur after the Korean War...
.How New is the New Hamas Charter?
Armed Hamas militiamen on parade with a mock rocket in Gaza
by Denis MacEoin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Anyone with a serious interest in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will be familiar with the oft-cited Charter or Covenant [mithaq] of the terrorist group currently ruling the Gaza Strip, Hamas... The Charter in Arabic was published on 18 August 1988. Its proper title is "The Charter/Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement 'Hamas' Palestine", Hamas being an acronym for "the Islamic Resistance Movement".This April, the Lebanese news site al-Mayadeen leaked a draft version of a much-revised version of the 1988 Charter, due to be released "in the coming days"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10229/new-hamas-charter
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by Gina Loudon
Putin and Assad did not predict the Syrian missile strike, and they have no idea what President Trump may do next.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thought it would be fun to test President Trump with a nuclear missile test, and now the kindergarten dictator sees China refusing coal shipments and placing troops on the border.
ISIS, which has had free reign and even support from the liar-nObama administration for the past eight years, got a surprise when President Trump got a MOAB out of mothballs and bombed the $#!% out of ISIS.
Here at home, President Trump has driven the left absolutely mad.
His popularity is twice that of Congress, and a startling 98 percent of those who voted to elect this president would do it again. Only 2 percent say they would vote differently today.
Democrats have decided that the best way to oppose Trump is to wear hats and costumes depicting genitalia, yell and scream any time they disagree with someone, destroy property and burn businesses and appear more radical than ever before.
The quantifiable achievements of the Trump administration are quite remarkable, too:
Trump's 2 biggest wins in his 1st 100 days
by Gina Loudon
{wnd.com} ~ The D.C. establishment is doing its best to obstruct President Trump at every turn, but as the 100-day mark approaches, it doesn’t look like it has been very successful, despite the narrative the media will try to inject into bot brains this week.
President liar-nObama set President Trump up very well for early success in the White House. That was so nice of him.
When Obama enacted his agenda by executive order, he didn’t predict an outsider would take the Oval Office and undo it all, literally, with the swipe of a pen. He probably expected a Bush or a Marco Rubio type who would leave in place what was, um, “established.” Oops.
You can quantify a lot of great things this president has done in a very short amount of time, despite the petulance of partisan, obstructionist Democrats and zero help from Congress. But perhaps Trump’s biggest achievements in his first 100 days are not as quantifiable as number of jobs created or increased stock-market value.
The overriding big-league wins thus far:
President liar-nObama set President Trump up very well for early success in the White House. That was so nice of him.
When Obama enacted his agenda by executive order, he didn’t predict an outsider would take the Oval Office and undo it all, literally, with the swipe of a pen. He probably expected a Bush or a Marco Rubio type who would leave in place what was, um, “established.” Oops.
You can quantify a lot of great things this president has done in a very short amount of time, despite the petulance of partisan, obstructionist Democrats and zero help from Congress. But perhaps Trump’s biggest achievements in his first 100 days are not as quantifiable as number of jobs created or increased stock-market value.
The overriding big-league wins thus far:
- He has knocked evil in the world back on its heels.
- He has driven the liberal left into the loony bin.
Putin and Assad did not predict the Syrian missile strike, and they have no idea what President Trump may do next.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thought it would be fun to test President Trump with a nuclear missile test, and now the kindergarten dictator sees China refusing coal shipments and placing troops on the border.
ISIS, which has had free reign and even support from the liar-nObama administration for the past eight years, got a surprise when President Trump got a MOAB out of mothballs and bombed the $#!% out of ISIS.
Here at home, President Trump has driven the left absolutely mad.
His popularity is twice that of Congress, and a startling 98 percent of those who voted to elect this president would do it again. Only 2 percent say they would vote differently today.
Democrats have decided that the best way to oppose Trump is to wear hats and costumes depicting genitalia, yell and scream any time they disagree with someone, destroy property and burn businesses and appear more radical than ever before.
The quantifiable achievements of the Trump administration are quite remarkable, too:
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 11 percent since Election Day.
- Border crossings are at a 17-year low.
- Consumer confidence has reached its highest level in 16 years.
- More than 660,000 jobs have been created.
- One new Constitution-loving justice now sits on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gazing into my crystal ball, I can assure you that the lamestream media narrative this week will be that President Trump has accomplished nothing at all within his first 100 days, because they simply don’t know success if it isn’t growing government. He accomplished everything so far without Congress and without the establishment. And perhaps that is his greatest accomplishment of all.
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