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Defense of Liberty IX Recap Via Tweets
Nick Schroer and Tim Jones opened up the evening.
@ceciliasjohnson GOP Activist shared her background and how she because a shares the story of her journey to conservatism & the Republican Party.
shares the story of her journey to conservatism & the Republican Party.
Senator Onder helped kick off the evening sending the message about Jeff City and the upcoming primary election: @FreedomPrincipleSTL “We must fight the RINO establishment swamp. Stand for conservatives not RINO Republicans.”
Senator Eigel Introduced Donald Trump Jr. with a compelling reminder: @FreedomPricipleSTL “We are fighting in a war of ideas. A war where we are being told our freedom doesn’t matter. We must fight back.”@BillEigel
Donald Trump Jr. had the crowd laughing the majority of the time because of the stupidity of the current administration and the RINOS that have been exposed. However, he brought it all home by remarking…this is not really funny…this is sad and frightening. @FreedomPricipleSTL “Are you enjoying your 8.5% pay cut thanks to Joe Biden?” It’s actually far greater than 8.5%… @FreedomPricipleSTL “What we are experiencing is not because of Joe Biden. It’s because of Democrat policies. Their energy policy is driving low income families to have to skip meals.”
Seth Dillon from Babylon Bee concluded the evenings lineup. His opening remarks were from G.K. Chesterton, “It will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact. Learn more from their website or pick up his book “The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness” here.
Landmines Are Everywhere
We’re getting to that point in session. Three weeks left. Time is critical. Yesterday, Sen. Bob Onder reminded the Senate of that fact when he warned that a point of order ruling might trigger a filibuster. Sen. Bill White’s SB 671 was being debated. It dealt with visitation of folks in hospice or long-term care. Its title was “protection of vulnerable persons.” Sen. Rick Brattin offered an amendment dealing with preventing minors from accessing online porn. Sen. Doug Beck raised a point of order that it beyond the scope of the bill. While White and Beck argued it was clearly not related to the nursing home visits, Onder and Brattin retorted that it clearly fit under the title of the bill. Both arguments made sense.
But Onder said it was so obviously appropriate to the bill that if the point of order was ruled well taken, it could impact the rest of session. Most immediately, “We might need to have a discussion whether he [Pro Tem Dave Schatz] got it right.” The situation was defused when Schatz took the question “under advisement,” putting off a ruling until later. But it shows how easily the Senate could blow-up or lose a day in these critical final weeks. Landmines are everywhere folks.
Source MO Scout
Fact Check: Missouri Students Were Given Math Assignment About Maya Angelou's Sexual Abuse, Sex Work
A school district in Missouri drew wide condemnation online after social media users shared posts of a math problem that referenced author and poet Maya Angelou’s sexual abuse and sex work. “CRAP BEING TAUGHT (TO) OUR KIDS – SICK!” a Facebook user wrote April 18 in a post that was shared more than 250 times in two days. Other versions of the image racked up thousands of additional shares across Facebook and Twitter. The image shows two algebra problems attached to trivia questions based on Angelou’s life. The first question asks students to fill in the blank to the following prompt: “Angelou was sexually abused by her mother’s ______ at age 8, which shaped her career choices and motivation for writing.” The second says, “Trying to support her son as a single mother, she worked as a pimp, prostitute and ______.”
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More Consultants Join Better Elections
The April filing of Better Elections, the campaign vehicle to pass ranked choice voting in Missouri, showed more political consultants have joined the campaign. In addition to the previous consultants (Barklage Company, Hancock & Prouty, Husch Blackwell Strategies, and MO Political Consulting), Veterans for Political Innovation and Show Me Victories are now listed for “coalition building and outreach.” The largest expense on the report was to Fieldworks, which is collecting signatures for both Better Elections as well and the marijuana legalization effort. (I was told that Fieldworks is paying $26 per hour, with a small signing bonus – a reflection perhaps of the tight labor market). Better Election’s April report showed $690K on-hand, but last week a fresh $1.6 million was contributed from their dark money source.
Source MO Scout
Lower Tax Rates, More Revenue
Quick history lesson: When the founders of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity (Laffer, Kudlow, Forbes, and Moore) advised Donald Trump back in 2016 on tax reform, we recommended a 20% corporate tax rate, because the U.S. rate of 40% (when including state taxes) was the highest in the world. This incentivized capital to flow out of the U.S. to leverage lower tax rates in Europe and Asia. We predicted and Trump agreed that this policy would lead to more jobs (it did), more capital flows into the U.S. ($1 trillion came in), and higher wages for workers (biggest wage gains in 20 years).
What we didn’t expect was the gusher of tax revenue INCREASES with the lower rates. Our friends at the Wall Street Journal editorial page broke this story last night that revenues have been HIGHER after the corporate rate cut than they were before the cut. AND the revenues were higher than the bean counters in Washington predicted. See chart. The Laffer Curve strikes again. But facts like these don’t seem to matter to the progressive Bidenites. The White House and Bernie Sanders are still pushing a 28% corporate rate hike. These are the same people who say “follow the science.” Read the full article here.
Source Unleash Prosperity Hotline
DeSantis Does It Again – Reins In Tenure For Fat And Happy Professors
We’ve argued for years that it is time for lawmakers to go after the outrageous cost increases at public universities. But no one had the backbone to take on the higher education lobby. But now Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has signed a bill he says “removes the stranglehold that faculty unions and accrediting agencies have had on universities and colleges and adds common-sense transparency requirements for tuition, fees and cost of materials.” In a jousting session with reporters at the signing, De Santis said the new law will “make sure (professors) don’t just have tenure forever without having any type of ways to hold them accountable or evaluate what they’re doing.” Every five years, he said, tenured faculty would be required to go before their university’s board of trustees, which could part ways with them. The leftists who run universities are predictably and indignantly hooting at DeSantis for interfering with academic integrity and ensuring that the best professors leave Florida’s schools…blah, blah, blah. DeSantis is proving to have great reformist instincts and a spine of steel.
Read full article here.
Red States Still Recovering Lost Jobs MUCH Faster Than Blue States
The state employment data for March was released this week. The remarkable finding is that there are now 13 states that have fully recovered all the jobs lost from early 2020 when COVID hit these shores. Guess what! Twelve of the thirteen are red states. Four of the five states that have recovered 95% or fewer of their jobs are blue states like New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
We think there are two explanations for the slow recovery of jobs in blue states. First, because blue states had more severe lockdowns, they lost more jobs in the first place. Second, the blue states with slow job recoveries also tend to be states with high welfare benefits, and so workers in those states are in less of a hurry to get back on the job. The chart shows the 13 states that have recovered all of their jobs (i.e., have exceeded 100% of their pre-pandemic employment).
Source Unleash Prosperity Hotline
Social Media Highlights
1) https://twitter.com/DLHoskins/status/1516422908452786179
2) https://twitter.com/DLHoskins/status/1516422908452786179
3) The continued “Covid Craziness” https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1515322263645609988
4) Hypocrisy is everywhere…you just have to look closely for it. https://twitter.com/FreedompplSTL/status/1516565511789756425
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