2 April 2017 - Granite Grok

April 2, 2017

BlogQuestion of the Night: Which will get done first?

SHOT: BREXIT: UK publishes ‘Great Repeal Bill’ plan to replace EU laws. Unveiling plans to convert EU law into domestic law, the government disclosed that 12,000 EU regulations are in force in Britain. About 7,900 “statutory instruments” — government orders — have implemented EU directives. Some 186 acts of Parliament passed between 1980 and 2009 …

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Data Point – Trump is “gutting the Federal budget”?

From The Corner, a two-fer: biased journalists and the “cuts” (emphasis mine): Issie Lapowsky at Wired has an interesting piece on Ro Khanna’s proposal to radically expand the earned-income tax credit. Lapowsky writes that this will be difficult to do, because “the Trump administration is gutting the federal budget.” Setting aside the fact that tax …

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