Do Harvard Law Grads Need Loan Forgiveness? President Joe Biden’s Education department is run by none other than Elizabeth Warren & Co.. The education department’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio would rank as the 5th largest bank in the U.S. by assets, explains Allysia Finley in the WSJ: Imagine a bank that has made hundreds […]
Socialism, Saving Oodles for Taxpayers
A Pervasive Culture of Corruption At the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton uses the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) as his example of an “utterly failed agency.” Mr. Menton thinks that the Authority is probably the best large-scale example of a pure socialist-model economic enterprise in the United States. You can read a few of […]
While Biden Bungles Tax Policy, Super States Take the Lead
The tax reform signed in 2017 by President Trump led America to a pre-COVID economic boom that proved just how strong the policies of freedom are. Now, as the world says good riddance to COVID, Biden wants to reverse Trump-era tax policies and bring the country back to the bad old days. Thankfully, America’s state […]
How Biden Is Hiding the Real Cost of Build Back Better
Originally posted on November 19, 2021. Build Back Better Bankruptcy Unlike President Biden’s perfidious claims that Build Back Better will cost “zero;” the WSJ, in a service to its readers, outlines the ways in which Democrats are disguising (lying about) their entitlement blowout. Add Another $1.5 Trillion to the Deficit The Journal begins with the […]
Dems’ Hypocritical Tax Scheme – One for the Ages
How will Democrats, especially Nancy Pelosi, explain their expansion of the state and local tax deduction (SALT) for largely affluent taxpayers in mainly Blue states? As the WSJ explains: It’s a raw exercise in political and economic hypocrisy. This is a giant political payoff to House Democrats from New York, New Jersey, Illinois and California […]
SUICIDAL: Biden’s Tax Increases Will Kill America’s Fastest Growing Industries
In 2011, Pat Buchanan wrote his book, Suicide of a Superpower. There is probably no faster way to kill a superpower nation than to hamstring its fastest-growing industries with new taxes, but that’s exactly what Joe Biden wants to do. Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato Institute, explains how Biden’s tax plan […]
SAVE AMERICA: Fight Biden’s Reconciliation Bill
Fight the reconciliation legislation by calling the Capitol Switchboard and your House Representative or Senators. The Capitol Switchboard: 1-888 355 3588 1-888 818 6641 1-877 851 6437 Just tell the operator whom you wish to speak with, and you will be connected to that office. You can leave a message even after hours.
Biden Progressives Propose Crushing Tax Increases
Joe Biden, and the progressives who run his administration, are proposing taxation on Americans unlike anything seen since the last World War. Jay Starkman explains in The Wall Street Journal: The Biden administration proposes to raise the top individual rate to 39.6% (plus 3.8%) and to 28% for corporations Some of the most burdensome proposals […]
Trump Fought Marxist Globalism, Now It’s Running America
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently encouraged a “global minimum corporate tax rate.” This anti-liberty proposal would turn the world’s governments into a globalized extortion cartel like OPEC but with taxes rather than oil. In her statement, she said, “it’s important to work with other countries to end the pressures of tax competition.” Trump fought this […]