The Washington Post has identified the most important item in President Joe Biden’s (D) legacy.
He is the person who moved decisively to stop Donald Trump….
What a recommendation to history: Joe Biden…won an election.
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Arizona Has a Chance to Lead the Way
This fall, the good citizens of Arizona will be voting on, among other things, a State constitutional amendment that would make it more difficult to increase State taxes.
If passed it would amend the state constitution to require a 60% majority to raise taxes through any future referendum. Current law requires a two-thirds majority to raise taxes through legislation but only a simple majority to do so by plebiscite.
State Representative Tim Dunn (R), who led the effort to get this onto November’s ballot:
When you have something that you can’t change without going back to the voters, I think we should have overwhelming support.
Yewbetcha.
As The Wall Street Journal put it,
A 60% threshold ensures broad consensus before rates can be raised by referendum.
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The point is to make it harder for Arizona to join states that raise taxes as a first fiscal resort rather than examine spending.
A Burgeoning Economy
According to President Joe Biden (D) and his Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen (D), our economy is burgeoning, prosperous, a Valhalla of growth, fairness, and optimism.
This is what the Progressive-Democrats’ Valhalla looks like in the real world:
- US inflation reached 7.9% by February 2022 and had been…burgeoning…since fall 2021
- US inflation currently is above 8%
- before the pandemic, inequality was falling as wages rose faster for low-income workers than they did for the affluent amid healthy growth [note that after the pandemic has been the Biden reign]
- the US economy contracted by about 1% of GDP in the first six months of this year, even as real wages were falling
- real average hourly earnings declined 3% over the 12 months through July
- real average weekly earnings declined by 3.6%
- real average earnings have fallen 4.2% since Mr Biden took office
But wait—aren’t gasoline prices falling now? Sure they are, but they’re still very much higher than before Biden took office, and they’re falling because demand is falling: we can’t afford to drive as much as we did pre-Biden reign.
For Biden to call this terrific is for him to expound from his Newspeak Dictionary.
Surveillance State, Part 2
Another one from New York. It seems that US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s Stand for America PAC, a 501(c)(4) organization with a legally protected list of donors has had that list released by the NY AG’s Charities Bureau to Politico, which then proceeded to publish that list.
The Charities Bureau is an arm of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (the same one who “consulted” with then-FBI Director James Comey to suppress any hint of investigation of Hillary Clinton’s classified email handling ‘way back in 2016) Attorney General office.
Never mind that the leak was illegal. Never mind that the Supreme Court in Prosperity Foundation v Bonta—just a year ago—had ruled that the California AG’s blanket demand that all charities disclose donor information was unconstitutional.
Letitia James, a Progressive-Democrat through and through, cares not a fig for any law that’s inconvenient to her. She’s going to collect non-Progressive-Democrat data and release it whenever she takes a notion to.
Anathema
In response to President Joe Biden’s (D) constant accusations of half of Americans being “semi-fascists” and “threats to our democracy,” Fox News‘ Mark Meredith asked Biden’s Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre what percentage of the 74 million people who voted for Trump in the 2020 election the White House regarded as extremists. Jean-Pierre’s answer (keeping in mind that a Press Secretary speaks the President’s words, not her own):
I’m talking about specifically MAGA office holders. That’s what we’re talking about. We’re talking about MAGA office holders who have put forth an agenda that is extreme.
Because wanting to Make America Great Again is extreme. This is what Biden and his Progressive-Democrat Party are so angry, so threatening about. A strong America is anathema to them.