No more bad faith pseudo-negotiations by Brussels. No more dithering and bad-skilled pseudo-negotiations by Theresa May.
The UK asked the European Union to delay its departure from the bloc until June 30, an extension that if approved would give Prime Minister Theresa May just weeks to break an impasse in Parliament over her withdrawal deal.
It’s not just an internal impasse between the PM and Parliament. It’s also and more importantly an impasse between Great Britain and Brussels.
Who would have thought such a thing?
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D, CA) has decided to use her committee to go after the hated banking industry. Congresswoman and Committee member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY) has announced
We’re going to hold oversight hearings to make these banks accountable for investing in and making money off of the detention of immigrants[.]
Dangerously, and sadly, the overt intimidation seems to be working.
On February 5 JPMorgan Chase announced it will no longer do business with private prisons. In January Wells Fargo said it would no longer market to private prison companies, aiming to achieve the same objective by attrition.
That’s what the headline would have it.
The German government is poised to renege on its pledge to raise military spending, the latest gesture of defiance by Chancellor Angela Merkel toward President Donald Trump.
And
Under the new budget plan, unveiled by the finance ministry Monday, [Germany’s] spending would rise to 1.37% of GDP next year, but then decrease again to 1.33% in 2019, 1.29% in 2022 and 1.25% in 2023.
However.
Germany won’t be defying Trump. It’ll be betraying NATO and its fellow members. Especially those eastern European members that front on Russia and behind which Germany ducks.
New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo (D), has provided another example of the dishonesty of Progressive-Democrats as he continues to whine about his State’s excessive State and local taxes no longer being deductible above a high maximum on Federal income tax forms.
He said Trump intentionally targeted states whose populations oppose him by a majority.
And
You pay your state income tax, they then tax your state income tax payment. First time ever.
The Wall Street Journal opined earlier this week that, in the words of the piece’s subheadline,
A no-deal crash out of the EU may be the best outcome now.
The rest of the thing was a string of rationalizations of why this is true, but the heart of the matter is that subhead.
In fact, though, a no-deal departure always has been the best outcome.
A priori because that’s what the Brits voted for in their referendum—they wanted their sovereignty and control of their own borders back. Full stop.
Hospital and insurers want to keep their pricing agreements hidden from those who must pay those prices, especially those who must pay under the duress of huge costs and the immediacy of the need for medical services.
Hospitals and insurers are gearing up to battle a Trump administration plan that could require the public disclosure of negotiated prices for medical services, part of an effort to lower US health-care costs.
Because price transparency facilitates competition, which in a capitalist, free-market economy helps drive costs down. But hospitals and insurers insist
The newly elected Wisconsin Governor, Progressive-Democrat Tony Evers, has made plain the Party’s definition of “choice.” Choose to do it our way.
Evers’ current budget proposal
caps voucher enrollment in 2020, entirely phases out the program for special-needs students and blocks the creation of new independent charter schools.
No need for all those charter schools. Progressive-Democrats want to avoid confusing us with such a plethora of decisions to make; they’ll protect us by deciding for us.
With not too many apologies to a hypothetical Joseph:
That’s British Minister Theresa May’s plea to Brussels.
…the decisions that the European Union makes over the next few days will have a big impact on the outcome of the [parliamentary] vote. … [L]et’s not hold back. Let’s do what is necessary for MPs to back the deal on Tuesday.
The EU functionaries have been playing you for a fool for a year and a half. This is confirmed by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier:
EU commits to give UK the option to exit the Single Customs Territory unilaterally….
This one has the advantage of being live and current. The Progressive-Democratic Party has extended its control over the State of California. The results accumulating from the several years of Progressive-Democratic dominance (now outright control) are these. California has
Now the French have decided to add another tax on American multinationals—a 3% “digital-services” tax on companies that do “targeted advertising or run[] a digital marketplace,” a tax aimed in particularly at Alphabet’s Google and Amazon.com.
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire:
These giants use your personal data and make a significant profit from it, without paying their fair share of tax[.]