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Joe Biden’s Economic Agenda Is a Marxist Template for Control


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What Biden brings should be self evident. Joe Biden’s economic agenda is a Marxist template for control. It would destroy millions of American jobs. His plan would crush economic recovery from the virus.

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Carbon Tax… Bad

Carbon tax bills are the talk in DC these days. There is marginal bipartisan support for enacting a new tax. Enacting a carbon tax will impact American families and businesses. Bipartisanship doesn’t make it good policy. A principled tax system is the way to promote prosperity for its residents. It should advance a government’s economic … Read more

Immigration Policy

Strong immigration policy is foundational to remaining a nation. It is part of what has made the United States exceptional. Today the debate over immigration and border security is toxic. Many are simply paralyzed on the issue. The result is the security of all Americans is being held hostage. The Marxist open borders agenda is … Read more

Data Point – Europe is a lot poorer than most of US States

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Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer than Most of the United States: “Most European countries (including Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium) if they joined the US, would rank among the poorest one-third of US states on a per-capita GDP basis, and the UK, France, Japan and New Zealand would all rank among America’s very … Read more

Taxes: Can we have too much of a good thing?

Progressive taxes: What is the definition of too much? Americans generally accept the concept of progressive tax rates. We do. That is a fact of life. But our tax rates must not be punitive or de-motivating. Allowing those things to occur causes damage to the social fabric. That is the problem with socialism. What Socialists … Read more

Be thankful for Capitalism’s Abundance and the Charity it allows

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Kevin Williams has a very thoughtful piece on Capitalism for yesterday’s Day of Thanksgiving.  While not directly thanking God (which the Pilgrims did on that day back in 1623), he confronts the wave of Socialism that reared it’s ugly head on November 6 and does a nice job of defending it when most cannot stand against the “kindness” onslaught of those believing that Government directed economies (Socialism, Communism) and behaviors are VERY MUCH superior to customer / individual self-directed choices (Capitalism). In part (reformatted, emphasis mine):

There is a part of the Christian tradition that relates charitable giving to the Seventh Commandment, which is the prohibition on theft. The idea is that the world and all that it contains are God’s gift to corporate mankind — “the universal destination of goods,” in theological jargon — so that the man with two coats holds one of them unjustly when his neighbor shivers in the cold with no coat at all. Private property, in this understanding, is instrumental in promoting the common good, but it does not supersede the primordial gift.

There is great grace and goodness and wisdom in that. But it simply assumes the existence of coats and coat factories, the vast and incomprehensibly complex apparatus of coat-production that incorporates materials, effort, and intelligence from people all over the world, coordinating the efforts of men and women who do not speak the same languages, share the same religion, reside in the same countries, or even know of one another’s existence — from goose farmers to computer programmers to chemical engineers.

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Harrell Tweets On Right To Work (revisited)

Steve MacDonald

With the Union Leader reporting again that New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate in the nation and is the only state under 10%, this seemed like a good time to revisit a post from mid-September; I expect the left will be regurgitating this meme so we should be prepared to rebut their nonsense.

 

Harrell Tweets On Right To Work

HKirstein%20RTW.JPGSo here we have New Hampshire Democrat Party Propaganda Minister Harrell Kirstein sharing some cherry picked wisdom.

"7 of 10 poorest states are RTW4Less states…blah blah blah."

My first thought is, define poor? (…without getting into this and this.)

Poor, like rich, is an elastic concept which our friend Harrell and the Demolition party stretch to fit their narrative.   It looks at wages but ignores things like cost of living, tax burden and relies entirely on total annual income as an arbitrary line drawn on a national chart, to define poverty, irrelevant of any other factor.  But it is these factors that affect wages and as it turns out, states without Right to Work are exponentially more expensive places to live.  So even if you are working for less income, you’re spending exponentially less of it on things you need to live a comfortable life.  And here’s one very critical example of that. 

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For Repeal of RGGI

Don

This morning NHPR had a program on RGGI.  Senator Peter Bragdon spoke for keeping RGGI and  Representative Jim Garrity spoke for repeal.  I tried to call and comment but didn’t get on the air.  They suggested that I send in my comments, so I sent the comments below.  Some of my comments are reactions to Peter Bradgon’s comments supporting RGGI.   

 

"I am for repeal of RGGI.

1.  We have plenty of energy in this country in the form of coal and gas, and even oil if the government would let us get it.  We do not need to import fuel from countries that want to kill us to generate the electricity we need.  My understanding is that gas can be relatively easily burned in oil fired energy plants, we have lots of natural gas.   

2.  It is hard to believe that wood pellets burn more cleanly than oil or certainly than gas.  While I understand the desire to buy locally, they should compete like other fuels. 

3.  If energy efficiency is beneficial to people, governments, businesses, etc., then why do the rest of us have to subsidize it for them?

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Recovery From Irresponsible Democrat Budgets

Don

To the Editor:

Every child knows which parent to approach for permission to do something risky, expensive, inappropriate, or too impractical.    The parent who says “No” is called “mean”, “uncaring“, “selfish”, etc.     

Some marriages have problems because over-spending threatens  financial disaster, e.g., eviction, inability to purchase real needs like food and health insurance.  Sometimes one spouse stands up to avoid the disaster, slashes expenses, sells expensive toys, cancels unessential services, etc.  Family members enjoying the excess spending may call these cuts “extreme” and the responsible parent “mean”, “uncaring“, “selfish”, etc.   

Across our country city, state, and federal governments have recklessly over-spent and over-committed future spending. 

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