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I agree that the tax systems need to be updated / upgraded. The potential revenue clawbacks, however, aren’t nearly as much as would justify the Inflation Reduction Act. Just like taxing unrealized gains (how would that have gone over the last few months), a 100% tax on billionaires, or other out there taxation measures wouldn’t fund the federal government for more than a few days. We’re not Italy, Greece, or Spain, who have massive underground economies and therefore small tax bases that could be expanded with better systems.
As for the internet observatories, the left has really gone all-in on the disinformation industry (after defending the right to free speech for a long time). It’s chilling. The “COVID misinformation” bill passed in California (championed by Dr. Richard Pan, who went after Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Twitter… which will become Exhibit 1 of the lawsuit), and is likely unconstitutional. We’re living in dangerous times, when confirmation bias is weaponized to censor.
Don’t forget that UW’s center is run by our very own Kate Starbird. Her early work was excellent. Her more recent work (or more accurately her center’s more recent work) is so hopelessly infected with political bias that it is worthless.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/747
Not sure if Silicon Valley’s days are over. San Francisco’s days may be numbered.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1569718637551828993
Doesn’t matter. Damage was done.
Looks like Robert Telles’ political fortunes were going up until his defeat in the primary (by about 2k votes). As far as I know, he didn’t practice criminal law.
I have met both the victim and the perpetrator in person (several times each). Jeff German really tried to be accurate and get things right. Good sense of humor (off the record).
Rob Telles was a law student and attended some bar events while a student and once he graduated. Always had a big smile. Did seem like the politician / networking type.
My guess is that having his political ambitions dashed broke him. Weird thing is he may have impersonated a burglar who broke into the Summerlin Lindo Michacoan restaurant a few weeks ago. Not sure how he expected to get away with it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1567274292693565440
It wasn’t climate change? Does sewage treatment fall under the water infrastructure bond that California voters passed, but the billions of dollars haven’t gone into a single storage mechanism or other water project?
https://mobile.twitter.com/nancook/status/1562066995734011905
We’ll see what the parameters are tomorrow, but it isn’t looking good.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MarcGoldwein/status/1562129779326853121
If it is a payroll tax on everyone, it really will be plumbers paying for lawyers.
Oh, and the Rasmussen tracking poll had only a 47 favorable 52 unfavorable split today. Way up from the 15-17 percent gaps during the spring.
NEW: @Civiqs / 08/21
Biden Job Approval
Approve 36%
Disapprove 55%Independents
Approve 26%
Disapprove 63%Georgia: 32/57
Arizona: 34/58
Michigan: 36/55
Nevada: 37/55
New Mexico: 37/54
Pennsylvania: 38/53
Wisconsin: 39/54
New Hampshire: 40/51https://t.co/pm6mEdfpy0 pic.twitter.com/KSDTsTig9F— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) August 22, 2022
Like I said, there’s a shift in the vibe. May or may not affect midterms. If the so-called Inflation Reduction Act ends up keeping inflation high / forcing the Fed to keep raising rates as I suspect it might (the CBO agrees with me), then this may go down as a self-own.
https://mobile.twitter.com/omriceren/status/1559718385704996864
Also, no one has been held accountable for the kids killed in the mistaken drone strike on the aid worker and his family.
The word Biden appears zero times in this story from the NYT. https://t.co/0QoofQA8Y4
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 16, 2022
No mention of Biden and the logistics of the fall of Afghanistan in the NY Times or the NPR stories about the anniversary. Apparently ABC ran a long video on the fall and also didn’t mention Biden. Left-wing Twitter is out to try to blame Trump today, which has been interesting.
Bad things that happen during the Biden administration happen TO the Biden administration, not BECAUSE of the Biden administration.
