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 Report From Inside the Cone
by Arnold Ahlert
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 Tax Reform Is a Trump Family Affair 
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by Robin Smith:  As President Donald Trump tweets his chiding remarks to a U.S. Congress that has moved its 200-day checklist of accomplishments into a “wish list” of items that may or may not ever happen, it’s pretty obvious: tax reform is a Trump priority and even a family affair.
          While the president is consistently on message about both lowering America’s corporate tax rate (the highest among developed nations) and reducing the burden for middle class workers, Ivanka Trump is focused on the role of tax policy to bring relief to working families. She advocates a higher child tax credit to help families dealing with child care — often to the tune of five-figures per year in order to remain employed.
          Back in September 2016, candidate Donald Trump began to speak of the policy inspired and driven by his daughter, a working mother of three children. The simplest explanation of the proposal is either a doubling of the child tax credit or to allow dependent care — for up to four children and elderly dependents for individuals earning less than $250,000 — to be deducted from income taxes or a partially refundable tax credit for low-income families.
          Ivanka noted last year, “As a society we need to create policies that champion all parents, enabling the American family to thrive.” This statement is so true to recognize the value of families and to understand that removing an obstacle for productive adults to support their families is critical, especially in a world where welfare entitlements are never reformed and easily accessed.
          Last week, Ivanka joined Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist in a panel discussion regarding the plan to pass legislation providing tax credits that offset the cost of dependent care. In the audience of this forum were representatives of several conservative and Christian organizations interested in policies that impact families, including the Faith & Freedom Coalition, Live Action, the Family Research Council, Americans for Prosperity, the National Taxpayers Union, American Enterprise Institute, Focus on the Family, March for Life and the Southern Baptist Convention.
          A passionate Ivanka Trump began with opening remarks citing specific statistics that point to the reality of the burden for those who want to raise a family and yet strive to achieve an adequate income to raise that family. Ivanka declared that the current child tax credit of $1,000 should “at least double” with “this administration pushing for the largest child tax credit possible.”
          The legislators, Lee and Schweikert, spoke of details of a proposed Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit that would be increased to $2,500 and that would be partially refundable — though at a cost of at least $500 billion in taxpayer funds over 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center.
          Research shows that corporate paid parental leave policies do increase work opportunities and wages while reducing dependence on government benefits like food stamps. However, when government mandates policies within businesses, those mandates cost jobs, just as America witnessed in the change of many jobs from full-time to part-time in response to the mandates of liar-nObamaCare. Instead, the use of tax credits can boost overall wages kept by workers who struggle to remain in the workforce while juggling child and dependent care. These credits would also require that at least one parent be actively employed to qualify, making this a support to workers, not an entitlement.
          Norquist noted the unique approach to this tax proposal within the comprehensive reforms for business: “We’ve never had a successful tax reform that was not both pro-growth and pro-family. That’s how we put together a winning coalition to understand why we need to do it. It’s also important to do both of those things as we move forward.”
          Politically, this approach balances the impersonal, big-business nature of corporate tax reform to address a day-to-day issue within middle class families. While business analysts clamor for the dramatic impact to our nation’s economy that will result from a corporate tax rollback to President Trump’s proposed rate of 15%, middle class families will certainly see a greater earnings potential for those choosing and able to work.
          In light of President Trump’s recent pivot to include Democrat minority leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in his legislative efforts after the impotence of the Republican House and Senate majorities to lead, a child tax credit would provide cover for Democrat support of an overall tax proposal that was broad, not “just for the rich, greedy corporations.”
          The White House has not yet released a detailed proposal of its desired tax reforms, however, President Trump has remained steadfast in his call for both corporate and individual tax cuts that expand the benefit to businesses and workers. Knowing that his base of working class Americans are looking to see tax reforms that benefit them, not some unseen market that always serves corporate interests, Trump and his oldest daughter seem willing to fight the big money protecting corporate lobbying to see this through.
          The tension in expanding tax credits is healthy among conservatives who understand that manipulated markets are not free and don’t self-correct. In other words, there are good reasons to be skeptical of the real economic wisdom of Ivanka’s proposal. Yet Trump’s populist appeal is still strong, and increasing the child tax credit would in many ways be a big boost to families.
          While specifics are elusive, the fact remains: Money that remains in the family budget is always better spent than money confiscated and redistributed by a bloated, wasteful, distant government.  ~The Patirot Post
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House Intel Committee Will Order
Stonewalling AG Sessions, Dir Wray To Testify
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) speculates that Democrats may be “fearful” that the Trump dossier is “a piece of fiction,” which would undercut their entire witch hunt... He believes that might be why Democrats are pushing back as forcefully as they are against the Republican effort to obtain answers from the DOJ and FBI regarding the dossier. Gowdy told the Daily Caller that some of the objections of his colleagues would appear to be rooted in a fear that their phony investigation could come crashing down around them...  https://rickwells.us/gowdy-intel-sessions-wray/
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Anthony Kennedy keeps Trump's travel ban
in place with temporary Supreme Court order
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by Ryan Lovelace
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday issued an order temporarily blocking a lower court ruling that would have limited President Trump's travel ban... Kennedy's administrative stay temporarily halts the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week that ruled against the Trump administration's interpretation of the controversial travel ban. The western federal appeals court heard arguments last week in the fight over who is blocked from coming to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries under Trump's travel ban, and subsequently ruled against the president...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anthony-kennedy-keeps-trumps-travel-ban-in-place-with-temporary-supreme-court-order/article/2634091?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2009/11/17&utm_medium=email
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From Florida: The Wrath of Hurricane Irma
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by Daisy Luther
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. Below you’ll see videos from different parts of Florida that show you the true wrath of Hurricane Irma... Irma first made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane. The second landfall occurred as a Category 3 on Marco Island...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/florida-wrath-hurricane-irma-video/
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Religious Tests for Public Office
 Are Unacceptable. Period.
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by Sen. Mike Lee
{dailysignal.com} ~ I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the fascinating men and women of America’s founding generation. I want to share with you one of their stories... Jonas Phillips was a penniless Jewish immigrant, an indentured servant, a hardworking businessman, and an American patriot who served in the Philadelphia Militia during the Revolutionary War. During the British occupation of New York, he snuck messages past the censors by writing in Yiddish. He urged them not to include a religious test in the Constitution as a requirement for public service, because no man, he wrote, should be “deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen on account of his religious sentiments.”...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/08/religious-tests-public-office-unacceptable-period/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell"&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1FeU1EZ3laVFEzT0RRNCIsInQiOiJKdkxsdHNIelRWWmxnRElkaE5iR0ZWS1paTFJxVnAyZTc3eVllTTI0NmQ4Q3BFa1dVOHdqS3VRbVJFUnFjb09xS3hjdUpXalRTSnhxTUVMaEJPZ2paQ2NVQ1dsbEk0NjlXaVVsZ1p2ajZUdEtEZ0RWeHZQSFpBY2k0T2N5Mkx4QyJ9
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That Horrible Day 16 Years Ago
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9/11/12 What Lessons Have We Learned From Benghazi?
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President Trump At The Pentagon Honoring 9/11 Victims
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Amb. Friedman Speaks At The ONLY 9/11 Memorial Outside U.S. (In Jerusalem)
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Key Largo Devastated By Irma
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Really Strange Requirements To Join The US Secret Service
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 Report From Inside the Cone 
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by Arnold Ahlert:  Editor’s Note: We don’t often break into first-person commentary, but this column from Arnold is a harrowing glimpse into what our Florida friends are bracing for this weekend. Join us in offering up prayers for the safety of the Ahlerts and millions of others in the path of Hurricane Irma.
          This columnist is sitting in what amounts to ground zero, 24 hours before Hurricane Irma hits wherever it’s going to hit. And believe me, I know what many of you are thinking: What are you still doing there!? How can you be crazy enough to hang around!?
          The simple answer? I had no choice. The earliest I could go was Thursday, because Wednesday was “prep” day: putting up hurricane shutters, stowing all loose objects, and getting everything like clothes, important records, backup hard drives, etc. loaded in the car. By the time that was done, neither me nor my wife were in any condition to drive the minimum six hours it would have taken to get to the Georgia border and out of “The Cone.”
          So we did leave on Thursday, but as it turns out, six hours was a euphemism. It took three hours to go 90 miles on I-95, and in front of us was bump-to-bumper traffic as far as the eye could see. There were also reports of gas shortages, all the way up to the Georgia border. So we turned around and came home. That choice was further justified by a local news story about a couple who tried to leave from Cocoa Beach, about 50 miles north of where we got, on the same day. It took them six hours … to go 50 miles.
          Spending a Cat 4 in a hurricane-proofed house is one thing. Spending it on the side of I-95 in a car with my wife — and my cat — is quite another. But even then I didn’t give up. Planes? Full or canceled. Amtrak? Canceled — period.
          So here we are, waiting and watching. And mostly what we’re watching are the outbreaks of cluelessness, hysteria and hatefulness that attach to everything these days, even natural disasters. And since there’s nothing better to do after stocking up on the essentials, we decided to make a game of it, finding examples of each and awarding a “Best of category” prize.
          First, cluelessness. One of my brother’s friends, “Kenny,” is riding Irma out — in Key West. Apparently the fact that Key West sits about five feet above sea level with predicted 10-12 foot surges is lost on this hardy bohemian who “made it through Andrew and isn’t about to be intimidated this time.” Best guess is Kenny will learn the difference between riding it out and swimming it out. More cluelessness involves a neighbor who put out home renovation trash, despite there being no bulk pick-up until after the hurricane. Apparently she remains oblivious to the idea that in 150 MPH+ winds, everything is a missile. Honorable mention goes to another neighbor who used cardboard and duct tape as hurricane “shutters.”
          First prize in this category goes to celebrity airhead Jennifer Lawrence, who implied Donald Trump voters should bear responsibility for natural disasters, because they don’t believe in man-made climate change. “It’s also scary to know, that climate change is due to human activity, and we continue to ignore it, and the only voice that we really have is through voting,” Lawrence stated.
          I’m guessing it might be scarier to be so stupid. You’ll alienate half the movie-going public — again — while promoting your new movie. Even after your last movie bombed.
          In the hysteria category, the mainstream media is a cornucopia of relentless pre-storm doom-and-gloom, all centered around “worst Atlantic basin storm in history” pronouncements, as if we need constant reminding. To that they add a considerable dollop of post-storm prophecies, as in Florida and elsewhere being devastated for the foreseeable future, with no electricity restored for “days, weeks, months” as a blurb on Drudge put it.
          First place in this category goes to Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, who referred to Irma as a “nuclear hurricane.” In Levine’s defense, he is dealing with the same “I’m not leaving!” hammer-headedness that afflicts Key West Kenny. But, just as it was with Hurricane Harvey, emergency service personnel have made it crystal clear there will be no rescues of any kind on any barrier reef until after the storm. Yet one suspects even those folks know that comparing a hurricane with a nuclear blast is a tad excessive. Flooding and wind damage is one thing. Radiation poisoning is quite another.
          No doubt many “experts” in media and government will try to top Levine as this unfolds. Like Irma, they too are blowhards.
          In the hateful category, we lead off with the Islamic State, whose supporters took to social media to celebrate the upcoming devastation. “Yallah Irma Yallah Ya Allah make their cities destroyed the same as Mosul, Raqqa, Al Bab, Fallujah, Tikrit, Baji, Ramadi and others Ya Allah punish them,” Stranger_Ghuruba38 bloviated on Instagram. Another heart-warmer, “May Allah drown the enemies of Islam and force them into their knees subdued, and humiliated, defeated, and scattered!” was posted on the pro-Islamic State Facebook page called The Monotheist Page.
          On the bright side, that outburst will likely take some heat off Mark Zuckerberg. Critics have accused Facebook’s hate speech algorithms of protecting white men, and allowing pro-Islamic State sentiments to make the cut will undoubtedly restore some much-needed “balance” for those who see racist implications — in everything.
          Islamic State supporters, however, are minor leaguers compared to some of our own “enlightened” progressives, especially those hoping President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort will be wiped out. “Dear God, if you’re up there, give us a sign. Like Irma only destroying Mar a Lago. Thanks,” tweeted Patrick S. Tomlinson. “If Hurricane Irma plows into Mar-a-Lago later this week, it may force me to reexamine my beliefs about god,” added voizeofreazon. “We the people offer #Irma the fine seaside resort of Mar a Lago in atonement for our sins against the climate. Please take it and go,” offers Iris Pangburn. Who knew leftists were so “religious?”
          First prize in the hateful category goes to one JMarie03 for casting a “wider net.” That tweet railed, “I would be pleased if Irma just hit Mar a Lago like a bullseye & leave the rest of the US alone. Bonus if #45 & family were there.”
          Got that? Another doyen of tolerance wishing devastation, not only on the president, but his entire family. Perhaps adding Trump’s ex-wives, and/or maybe a few cabinet members to the list, would really make JMarie03’s heart flutter.
          Coming up for me and my neighbors, a long, gut-wrenching weekend, followed by … who knows? If you see another column, you’ll know we made it. In the meantime, we take care of each other in this community — all political differences notwithstanding.
          As for the clueless, hysterics and haters, the effects of natural disasters dissipate over time. Being consumed by the baser parts of human nature? Sometimes that lasts forever.  ~The Patriot Post
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