NATION
Lawsuit Against Key Speech Silencers Threatens To Blow Open The Censorship-Industrial Complex
Blaming Conservatives For Collapse: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t On The Debt Ceiling
FISA 702 Reauthorization Scheduled for This Year – Here’s Why It Must Be Opposed
Texas Insurrection? Twitter
1 Year Later: Dobbs Leak Led to Attacks on Justices, Pro-Lifers, Catholics
Speaker McCarthy Flip-Flops On ‘No Blank Check For Ukraine’
Corona: creating the illusion of a pandemic through diagnostic tests
WATCH: Innocent Grandma Brutalized In Front Of Kids, Dragged From Home As Cops Raid Wrong House
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: DEI Training’s Unintended Consequences YT
Conservatism, Inc. Fiddles While the Republic Burns
Don’t hate the messenger: the numbers and data speak, overwhelmingly, for themselves. So maybe, just maybe, we might want to examine what we’re actually doing moving forward before the republic is completely gone and we have zero chance of ever restoring it.
More than 70 years ago, the Left funded by the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and other staid-but-strayed foundations began investing in institutions in Washington and New York to support their policy endeavors. And it makes sense that 50 years ago, conservatives sought to build similar institutions as a counterbalance. But during that time, the Left continually has invested in every other tool necessary for seizing and controlling power in our country.
The Left’s nonprofit money funds investigative journalism, lawfare, voter registration, community organizing, and mobilization. It dumped more than $400 million into battleground states in 2020 alone to (very questionably) boost the blue vote in blue counties. They do all these things to build the mechanism of achieving power. Not the Right. No, we write white papers about what should be done instead of doing what it takes to achieve power.
Maybe we should start thinking about how we reposition ourselves, our strategy, our tactics, and our funding before it’s too late? Because, trust me, we’re not beating back the militant Left by swatting at them with white papers. And what we could be doing right now is educating people about “ballot out, ballot in” efforts for next year and registering people to vote instead of blowing $125 million a year on the Heritage Foundation.
WORLD
Israel bombs Gaza as tensions rise over death of Khader Adnan
TikTok Parent Company ‘Monitors’ And ‘Suppresses’ Posts About Trump, Uyghurs: REPORT
RSF claim their forces shot down a MiG fighter jet in Sudan
French police clash with protestors during May Day rallies YT
A violent theory explains why most people are right-handed
HEMISPHERE
Colombia, Venezuela Security Partnership Puts Pressure on ELN
Brazil’s ‘fake news’ bill sparks outcry from tech giants
In Pics: Migration Crisis On Chile-Peru Border
HEALTH
The Shocking New Truth About CANCER! (Nobody Shares This) | Dr. Thomas Seyfried YT
MACRO
Congress Ignores Real Debt Ceiling Drama
Digital Dollar Project to launch five U.S. central bank digital currency pilots Mainstream
Bank Failures – A Push For CBDC?
MICRO
2023’s 10 Best-Performing Stocks Mainstream
The Remote Work Revolution Has Been a Low-Tax Migration
No One Is Talking About This: Midwest Housing Slump YT
WORTH ANOTHER LOOK
Could Solar Panels in Space Solve all Our Energy Needs? YT
CULTURE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
Stephen King’s Fiction Is Just Clumsy Left-Wing Moralism Now
MONDO
An Immodest Proposal: Tax The Taxman
For the Union to survive, we will need a sound economy, minimal debt, a strong currency or currencies, and those conditions can only be met with the prior curtailing of federal spending. A tall order, no doubt.
Why not make revenue the only source of revenue? That is, why not suspend all current means of federal enrichment–income tax, corporate tax, capital gains–while taxing all state, county, and municipal revenue at a one hundred percent rate?
Of course, this would mean that Uncle Sam would o longer play sugar daddy to his harem. This is an eventuality anyway. No grants, no funding of welfare or daycare or education or Section 8 Housing. The federal government would finance essential functions such as maintaining national defense, securing the borders and protecting our national parks. Entitlements, if they would exist at all, would be scaled down. Federal pensioners might receive a lump sum buyout. Austerity is not optional.
State and local revenues currently total about $1.9 trillion. Taxed at one hundred percent, this would be our federal budget at baseline. States would immediately find their path to thrift. Schools might cut back on non-teacher salaries. State universities might eliminate scholarly disciplines of dubious value. DEI coordinators might find greener pastures in the private sector where their predecessors have already paved the way at places like Anheuser-Busch.
Sooner rather than later, state and local taxes would decrease, and federal revenue would decrease in unison. Should that number creep too low to maintain essential functions, we jump-start a low capital gains tax that was completive with the rest of the planet. Say eleven percent, or half or the current non-competitive rate? If we really cannot function on this budget, we could gradually introduce new “revenue streams” to meet, but not exceed the shortfalls.
You get less of whatever is taxed. Why then, do we not tax the taxman?
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