Thursday, March 11, 2021
Democrats slip sneaky little rider into stimulus bill to forbid states from cutting taxes
The only hope is to grow the economy so that the debt can be paid, which is something Americans often know how to do.
But unlike other bills, this one contains a poison pill, to ensure that red states and cities inclined to cut taxes are stopped dead in their tracks.
Reason magazine's Eric Boehm has located and identified this slimy, sneaky little rider:
Buried within the $1.9 trillion emergency spending bill that Congress sent to President Joe Biden's desk on Wednesday is a provision that could effectively block states from cutting taxes if they accept federal bailout dollars.Darn right, it's unconstitutional. If a state can't cut taxes, what exactly can it do?
That provision, added to the bill by the Senate last week, could put a halt to several states' plans to cut taxes this year as a way to stimulate economic growth following the COVID-19 pandemic. Depending on how the text is interpreted, the measure could also make it illegal for states to create new tax credit programs like the ones that have become a popular mechanism for expanding school choice. Critics say this expansion of federal control over state policymaking is murky at best, and potentially unconstitutional.
It amounts to a Democrat bid to not just shovel other people's money, but that little thing that comes with money, which is control. Conditionality. Power. In exchange for passing this monopartisan spending bill, their aim is not just to bail out blue cities and states at the expense of red ones, but to make red cities and states as overtaxed and badly run as blue ones.
And don't think this isn't an issue. Democrat-run blue states are hemorrhaging people. The COVID lockdowns have cut the benefits of living in big blue cities by shutting down all economic and social activity and forcing workers into their homes. A lot are realizing they don't need to work in giant cities any more, so the crime and high taxes they pay are starting to matter.
According to this January 2020 editorial in the Wall Street Journal:
Mexican President Says Biden Border Policies 'Encouraging Illegal Immigration' And Enriching Cartels
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says US President Joe Biden's immigration policy is encouraging illegal immigration, and brings revenue to drug cartels through human trafficking operations at the US border.
According to the Reuters, Mexico has asked the Biden administration to assist by providing developmental help to Central America, where tens of thousands of migrants embark on a journey through Mexico in the hopes of reaching the United States and gaining asylum.
"They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they’re going to reach the United States," said AMLO (via Reuters) following a March 1 virtual meeting with Biden. "We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can’t be tackled from one day to the next."
Some of Biden’s policies that worry the Mexican government include a fast track to citizenship for migrants living in the US and support for gang violence victims.One anonymous Mexican official told Reuters that cartels have been using sophisticated smuggling techniques "from the day Biden took office," such as using technology to thwart authorities, making smuggling operations appear as travel agencies, and keeping migrants up to date on...
Internal assessments reviewed by Reuters — based on testimony and intelligence gathering — state that Mexican gangs have been growing their clientele and keeping tabs on US measures that would encourage migration. Additionally they have developed a new tracking system to move migrants across the US-Mexico border.
Psaki: Biden Will Push to Make Some Social Safety Net Provisions of COVID Bill Permanent
On Wednesday’s “CNN Tonight,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated that President Joe Biden will argue that some of the social safety net measures of the coronavirus relief bill should be made permanent.
Host Don Lemon asked, “There’s provisions like expanding the child tax credit and increased subsidies for health insurance. Those expire, though, after a year, Jen. How much of President Biden’s sales pitch next week will be about convincing Americans that these social safety net measures should be permanent?”
Psaki responded, “Well, a big part. He wants to make the child tax credit permanent. He’s talked about that, and certainly, he’ll look for opportunities to do that and to work with members of Congress to get that done. And he certainly wants to make health care more affordable and accessible. But his real focus is on all of the specific details and making sure that people understand out in the country how to get access to all of the benefits of this package. So, I expect that’s going to be really the focus of his travel and the vice president’s travel and other members of the administration who will be out there in the country, making sure people know how they get the direct checks if they’re eligible, how they benefit from the child tax credit, what this funding means for their schools. So, this next couple of weeks — or these trips that he’s going to take is really going to focus on this particular package. But I promise you, he sees the benefits of...
German language school: Muslim Migrant stabs teacher in the head with a knife
On Thursday, March 4, there was an attempted murder on a male teacher (44) at a language school in Mölln, a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Under urgent suspicion is a 32-year-old Syrian who is said to have attended the school in the past.
According to the current state of the investigation, the former student visited the school around lunchtime and advised the teacher that he wanted to register for a new language course. While the teacher was making a note on the registration form, the accused suddenly attacked him with a knife and stabbed him in the head at ear level. The knife had an approximately 15-cm blade.
This was followed by a physical altercation in which the victim managed to grab the knife. As a result, there was a scramble between the two men over the knife, with the injured person falling to the ground and the accused sitting on him. The accused is said to have also hit the teacher. Police officers, who had been alerted by the victim’s fellow teachers, finally managed to pull the attacker off the victim using pepper spray.
The victim was admitted to hospital with cuts to the head and hands. The accused has not yet made a statement.
The public prosecutor’s office will apply for a pre-trial detention warrant to be issued against the 32-year-old on the basis of the urgent suspicion of attempted manslaughter and dangerous bodily harm, as well as the risk of...
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