Now Progressive-Democrats want to give cash payments, ostensibly without strings attached, directly to low income folks in addition to the many welfare payments they already receive.
The latest effort is more far-reaching and aims to move supplemental cash directly into the hands of low-income Americans.
Which they’ll lose were they to move up the economic ladder, thereby cynically trapping those Americans in the Progressive-Democrats’ welfare cage.
…for Great Britain to go out from the European Union.
Donald Tusk, European Council President:
I’ve been wondering what that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely.
To which Guy Verhofstadt, European Parliament representative for Brexit negotiations, added
I doubt Lucifer would welcome them, as after what they did to Britain, they would even manage to divide Hell.
Tusk also said
“our most important task is to prevent a No Deal scenario”, Mr Tusk stressed.
But he said that Brussels would make “no new offer” to the UK….
There seems to be no “sketch of a plan” because the Brits expected—naively, it turns out—that the EU would negotiate in good faith rather than demanding punitive conditions for the Brits’ impudence, and now the EU refuses to negotiate at all.
Tusk, and Verhofstadt, have given the Europeans’ game away.
A generally satirical piece by Bill Walsh on The Daily Wire concluded with this straight-up bit of logic:
This [the concept of “identifying as…”] is their own logic. I’m just accepting it. For the sake of argument, anyway. Liberals still have not faced the fact that their progressive gender theory completely undermines, negates, and rules out, all of the feminist “girl power” stuff. They want to have their gender cake and eat it, too. One minute they want us to believe that gender is fluid and a person’s body parts have nothing at all to do with the matter, the next minute they want us to jump for joy because a bunch of people with vaginas were elected to Congress. The two ideas stand in obvious conflict. They must choose. Or else they will have to face the fact that every time they go off on a feminist tangent, they are, according their own ideology, guilty of transphobic bigotry.
What Walsh said.
Here’s CNN commentator Van Jones on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday:
My first take: “A psychotically incoherent speech mixing cookies with dog poop.” #SOTU #peoplesSOTU #cookiesanddogpoop pic.twitter.com/phYf4PFb0E
— Van Jones (@VanJones68) February 6, 2019
It’s a minute-20 excerpt from Anderson Cooper’s show at the link in the tweet, and Jones went on throughout his tirade in that vein.
That’s all consistent, though, with Jones’ wholly balanced position while he was in the Obama administration that Republicans are “assholes” because they didn’t agree with Obama’s policies and policy proposals.
His projection, it’s clear to see, has gotten even more irrational.
Or maybe whines.
During a Monday press conference, Mr [Andrew, D] Cuomo said wealthy individuals living in these areas were either moving or shifting their official residence to lower-tax states….
Cuomo’s whining continued:
SALT was an economic civil war. It literally restructured the economy to help red states at the cost of blue states. That’s exactly what it did. It was a diabolical, political maneuver.
Yeah—it’s really diabolical to let folks—even the Evil Rich—keep more of their money. It’s especially diabolical that those folks would want to keep their money and actually take steps to take advantage of the Federal tax reform and avail themselves, also of the benefits of living in lower-tax locales. I mean, really.
The fact that New York’s and New Jersey’s tax structure is explicitly, carefully structured to relieve the especially successful of their earnings should be a hint, but it has blown right by Cuomo and New Jersey’s Progressive-Democratic governor Phil Murphy. Picking on New York, again,
the highest-earning 1% of taxpayers accounted for $17.8 billion of personal income tax revenue, or 45.8% of the total.
On the other hand,
[t]he vast majority of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut residents received federal tax cuts because of the changes. Many who have state and local taxes above $10,000 are benefiting from lower federal tax rates, larger child tax credits, the larger standard deduction and the narrowing of the alternative minimum tax.
But that doesn’t count. Except to put a premium, in Progressive-Democrat eyes, on even more heavily taxing those rich folks.