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Dec 10, 2017 ~ Michael Tanner, 'Trump's Plan to Cut Corporate Taxes Would Help Both Workers and Businesses'. The left portrays his tax plan as just benefiting the wealthy. The truth is the opposite. It benefits almost everyone except a few wealthy. [Tax Cuts, Economics, Economy]
Jan 7, 2018 ~ Jazz Shaw article, 'Canadians shocked when minimum wage hike negatively impacts workers' - loss of paid breaks, benefits, and perks - shift from full time to part time - and wages set to keep rising. Liberals think artificially raising wages has no negative consequences. [Minimum Wage, Economics]
Jan 8, 2018 ~ The rich are fleeing Connecticut in droves - obvious consequence of high taxes but liberals don't get it - lost over $100 million in tax revenue in just one year - counter-intuitive but taxes too high make the deficit worse. 'more than $2 billion in income moved from CT to FL' [Taxes, Economics]
Jan 8, 2018 ~ David Harsanyi article, 'Economists Say' a Lot of Things. Many of Them Are Wrong - Journalists quote the economists that fit their bias - ignore the hundreds of others and never report when their predictions did not come true. Provides many examples. [Economics, Fake News, David Harsanyi]
Jan 8, 2018 ~ America Needs a Balanced Budget Amendment now more than ever - Transfer payments are now about 70 percent of federal spending - as long as politicians are allowed to spend borrowed money, they will beat politicians who try to be responsible [Deficit, Economics]
Jan 8, 2018 ~ Walter Williams, 'Dangers of Government Control'. Walter Williams explains how the Great Depression was a series of disasters caused by government intervention having unintended consequences. [Economics, Walter Williams]
Jan 8, 2018 ~ Over 1 Million Workers Have Received a Bonus Since The Trump Tax Bill Became Law - dems either silent or still trying to pretend this is a tax cut for the rich. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 11, 2018 ~ Stephen Moore, 'One Year in Office, Trump Keeps Defying His Critics' - long list of economists and pundits predicting he would tank the stock markets and economy which would never recover - exact opposite happened - he defeats those who call him a moron [Trump Win, Economics]
Jan 11, 2018 ~ Because of Tax Cuts, Walmart to raise its starting wage to $11, far above the federal minimum - expanding maternity and paternity leave, giving employees bonuses. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 11, 2018 ~ Jamie Dimon explains how the tax cuts are good for America - his and other companies will give bonuses, raises, hire more, bring money back to the US etc. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 13, 2018 ~ That new soda tax in Seattle is working out about as well as Chicago's - outraging consumers who then go out of city to get soda and since they're there, everything else - net loss of tax revenue - no health benefit [Taxes, Economics]
Jan 13, 2018 ~ Bruce Bialosky, 'The New Tax Bill explained in Simple Terms and Without the Snarky Comments' - dem tax cut for the rich talking point is a lie, 'even the left of center Brookings Institute's Tax Policy Center states 80% of Americans will receive a significant tax cut.' [Tax Cuts, Economics, Fake News]
Jan 14, 2018 ~ Due to Trump Tax Cuts, Fiat Chrysler will spend $1 billion to revamp its Warren Truck Assembly Plant and bring back 2,500 jobs from Mexico to Michigan by 2020. Also, a one-time bonus of $2,000 for 60,000 employees. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 20, 2018 ~ Due to Trump Tax Cuts, Waste Management announced that 34,000 employees will receive $2,000 'special bonuses' - Pelosi continues to roll her eyes at the 'crumbs' real Americans appreciate. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 20, 2018 ~ Jay Cost, Earmarks have been banned for good reasons - don't bring them back - once one guy gets one, everyone else will withhold support until they get earmarks as well - explode budget, corruption etc. [Economics, Politics]
Jan 20, 2018 ~ Democrats Keep Beclowning Themselves With Tax Reform Lies. Continue to disparage the obvious benefits workers are getting. Schumer 'There's nothing about this bill that is suited to the needs of the American worker or the American economy.' [Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 21, 2018 ~ Apple announces plans to repatriate $250 billion in overseas cash and will contribute $350 billion to the US economy over the next 5 years - will hire 20,000, give $2500 bonuses - credits Trump Tax Cuts [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 21, 2018 ~ Software Company Spellex Corporation CEO Credits 'Trump Tax Cut and Jobs Act' for $1,000 Employee Bonus Checks - the 'memo' section of each $1,000 bonus check read, 'Trump Tax Cut and Jobs Act' [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 22, 2018 ~ Why bitcoin is NOT MONEY - many reasons - its far too volatile - money needs to be more stable, backed by the government and universally accepted - John Horvat II [Economics]
Jan 24, 2018 ~ Tom Purcell, 'Hey, Feds, Take Your Ethanol Mandate and Shovel It!' - Ethanol continues to destroy the fuel systems of cars, boats, lawn equipment and other engines - provides absolutely no benefits in exchange for all the harm. [Economics, Regulations, Energy, Climate Change]
Jan 24, 2018 ~ Disney to Give over 125,000 employees in the U.S. a one-time cash bonus of $1,000, as well as make a new $50 million investment into an education program for employees thanks to GOP tax cuts. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 24, 2018 ~ Due to GOP tax cut, 22,000 JPMorgan Chase workers are getting a raise to between $15 and $18 per hour - also hiring 4000 new workers, opening 400 new branches - increasing small business loans by $4B, philanthropic $ by 40% [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 27, 2018 ~ Due to GOP tax cut, Starbucks Announces Employee Raises and the disbursement of $250 million in bonuses and expanded benefits - between $500 and $2000 bonus per employee [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Jan 28, 2018 ~ Due to tax cuts, Home Depot hourly employees to receive up to $1000 bonuses - Home Depot has 406,000 employees. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Feb 2, 2018 ~ Trump Triumphs at Davos Economic Forum - treated like a rock star - says 'America is open for business' - gets incredible reception to the annoyance of liberals. [Trump Win, Economics]
Feb 4, 2018 ~ Lowe's Announces $1,000 Bonuses and Expanded Benefits Due to Tax Reform [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Feb 6, 2018 ~ Monica Showalter, 'In their love for illegals, Democrats pitch the black community overboard' - after decades of not improving anything for blacks, dems sit on their hands as Trump announces lowest black unemployment ever - dismiss black people killed by MS-13 [Illegal Immigration, Economics, Race]
Feb 7, 2018 ~ Michael Novak - 'capitalism better helps the poor to escape from poverty than any other system. ... capitalism is a necessary condition for the actual success of democracy' [Economics]
Feb 8, 2018 ~ 100s of large companies and more every day have announced bonuses, raises, new hiring, expansion, money repatriation, etc. due to Trump Tax Cuts - Democrats said it wouldn't happen. Then when it did, they dismiss it all as 'crumbs'. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Feb 10, 2018 ~ Due to tax cuts CVS to hike wages, introduce paid parental leave with windfall from new tax law - 240,000 employees - starting hourly wage increased from $9 to $11 per hour - $425 million being returned to workers. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Feb 10, 2018 ~ Due to tax cuts, Chipotle rolls out new benefits, cash bonuses due to tax cut - $1000 bonuses to 71,000 employees plus additional family leave, also added life insurance and short-term disability insurance coverage. [Trump Win, Tax Cuts, Economics]
Feb 18, 2018 ~ Foreign Freeloading To Blame For High Drug Prices - Betsy McCaughey explains that many foreign countries put price caps on drug prices meaning drug companies can only recoup their costs from the US Market making US prices much higher than they should be. Trump says 'very unfair' [Economics, Health Care]
Feb 20, 2018 ~ CNN and other news reports that Obama reduced the deficit by two thirds - Stephen Moore 'Obama's Real Debt and Deficit Legacy' - 'this takes data torturing to new heights' - complete opposite - Obama was the worst debt accumulator of any President ever. [Fake News, Economics, Debt]
Feb 21, 2018 ~ Really good explanation by Jim Geraghty for why a Utopia can't exist - There are no solutions, only trade-offs - You can't get the good side of every tradeoff and not get its associated negative consequences. Freedom vs. Security, Socialist equality vs. incentives for prosperity. [Economics, Politics]
Feb 25, 2018 ~ David French, 'Our Government Is Not Constructed for Competence' - essentially impossible to be fired from a government sector job - no one is ever let go and it never shrinks - The public sector is paid higher than the private sector where you actually have perform to keep job. [Economics]
Mar 6, 2018 ~ Deportations of illegal workers have been creating more jobs for black workers which is one of the reasons that black unemployment has fallen to all time lows. [Trump Win, Illegal Immigration, Economics]
Mar 6, 2018 ~ Auto makers are forced by the government to take huge losses on their electric vehicles that no one wants. States like California making it even worse by enacting mpg requirements way higher than the national average. These significantly harm regulations make US auto makers. [Economics, Climate Change]
Mar 6, 2018 ~ Steve Moore, 'How Environmentalists and Liberals Keep Heating Bills High' - They push LIHEAP program which would help far fewer people than shale gas with they opposed - they blocked pipelines that would have lowered prices further requiring imports. [Economics, Climate Change]
Mar 10, 2018 ~ CaliBurger creates a burger flipping robot named Flippy that does a better job at it than humans. Created in an environment where minimum wage just hit $12 and is rising to $15. As the minimum wages rise, companies automate to remain competitive, killing those very jobs. [Minimum Wage, Economics]
Mar 10, 2018 ~ Economy continues to boom - Blowout jobs numbers, record number employed, manufacturing adds 263,000 since Trump, black and Hispanic unemployment at historic lows. [Trump Win, Economics]
Mar 10, 2018 ~ U.S. Steel to Call Back 500 Employees to Illinois Plant After Trump Announces Tariffs on Foreign Steel [Trump Win, Economics, Trade, Tariffs]
Mar 20, 2018 ~ Philip H. DeVoe, 'Rolling Back Dodd-Frank' - not enough but some of the worst parts of Dodd-Frank are being fixed or removed by the Republicans in charge. [Trump Win, Regulations, Economics]
Apr 18, 2018 ~ Walter Williams explains 'Accumulative Decay' process by which big cities decline - When schools and services decline, the first people to leave are those who care the most about those things and have means - city must then raise taxes which causes more to leave. [Economics, Walter Williams]
Apr 28, 2018 ~ Discrimination and Disparities - new book by Thomas Sowell that shows how so called disparate outcomes are not the result of racial discrimination [Economics, Race]
Apr 29, 2018 ~ Jibran Khan, 'Finland's Basic Income Experiment Comes to a Close' - It should have been obvious that it wouldn't work - Finland's unemployment rate is 9.2%. [Economics]
May 1, 2018 ~ David Deming, 'The End of Peak Oil' - Fake idea that has been liberal orthodoxy for nearly a century - it has been proven wrong time and time again but they could not let it go and don't understand why its wrong. Steve Moore, Peak Oil is 'Peak Idiocy'. [Energy, Economics]
May 5, 2018 ~ National Review, 'Guaranteed Bankruptcy' - Bernie and the dems now floating the idea of 'guaranteed jobs' from the government - it would not only bankrupt America faster, it would destroy all necessary market incentives to gain skills, relocate, etc. [Politics, Economics, Sanders]
May 5, 2018 ~ New York Times runs piece 'Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right' on its pages - Ben Shapiro details how very wrong he was and why he was one of the worst people in human history. 'Marx's philosophy would lead directly to the deaths of 100 million human beings' [Fake News, Ben Shapiro, Economics]
May 6, 2018 ~ Emmett Tyrrell, 'The Health Care Mountain' - Milton Friedman called it decades ago - knew health care was 'elastic' - If money and time for it are available, patients will keep going to the doctor - no wonder its become unaffordable to the country. [Health Care, Economics]
May 15, 2018 ~ Walter Williams, 'Before and After Welfare Handouts'. Williams notes that people were taken care of in both cases - but before people gave willingly because recipients were grateful and did not take advantage. [Economics, Walter Williams, Entitlements]

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