February 21, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads- Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Filling in for the incorrigible, infamous, and ever wandering Ed. So, happy hump day from Cataula.
- Gubernatorial hopeful Clay Tippins made the rounds in Columbus yesterday with a stop at the Muscogee-Harris County Republican Women’s Meeting and an evening reception hosted by friends at the Chamber of Commerce.
- Ashley Bell, a familiar name to Republican circles, has been appointed regional director for the Small Business Administration in the Southeast.
- Nancy Pelosi thinks that the GOP tax bill is unpatriotic.
- In case you haven’t heard, Fergi didn’t exactly nail the national anthem. And now she is apologizing that some folks didn’t love her rendition.
- Donald Jr. is headed to India and EVERYONE is hearing about it.
- The Synovus Toast of the Town is March 2nd and it is the perfect excuse to head to Columbus for the weekend.
- The only televised Gubernatorial debate will be held in Columbus at Columbus State University.
- State Senator Butch Miller is making quite the name for himself…
- The Senate’s education committee voted on free speech bill that effects college campus in the state of Georgia.
- 80 are dead from the flu in Georgia. Have you gotten your shot yet? It’s not too late!
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Florida House refuses to debate guns, but declares porn dangerous
The House chose not to consider the bill that would lead to stricter gun control.
But it passed a resolution claiming that porn is dangerous.
The Democrats tried a procedural motion to get an assault weapon bill out of committee where it hasn’t even been given a hearing. It was defeated 36-71 largely down party lines. According to the Democrats the Republicans consider porn as a greater danger to the public health than guns.
I’m thinking that their House Republicans may still be confused on the ol’ this is my rifle, this is my gun thing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/21/florida-house-refuses-to-debate-guns-but-declares-porn-dangerous
The Party of Redistribution are saying tax cuts are unpatriotic. Letting people keep more of the money they earned is unpatriotic? Wow! Y’all reckon that’s already in a Repub campaign commercial yet?
“Redistribution” is such 1980s hackery. Any difference in effective tax rates between any and all individuals or corporations is redistributive. And that includes tax credits/expenditures, like economic development incentives. But OK, let’s complain when we give food stamps to employees of corporations who don’t make a living wage while the shareholders reap profits from capital gains loopholes and low effective rates. Redistribution was an effective way to brand partisanship, though. Congrats on falling for a simple marketing tool.
Otherwise, I was thinking about taxes and community, and I believe it’s true that you have to forego some selfishness, and have a sense of commitment to community to feel OK or good about paying taxes. Paying taxes is a form of community service.
Give me a percentage number, Balance. How much of a person’s earning should the gov’t be able to seize? It can easily top 50% for high income earners. Thoughts?
Well, I’d say “seizing” is more of an enforcement concern. People can, without use of force, voluntarily decide to comply with the law, and pay their taxes as a regular component of their citizenship.
As for %s, it’s just not so simple to me. Since you’re asking, though, as a starting point, I think it could be helpful to restructure some taxation so that they are more fee-like whenever possible. For instance, agencies like the SEC, EPA, etc., etc. all exist because without their regulatory efforts, there have been bad actors that injure and damage consumers and citizens. As such, it seems fair that those who are regulated by those agencies pay for 100% of the regulatory costs, including court costs, in proportion to their usage, and violations (thus, penalties not fees). In a way, it would just be giving a different budgetary view, but in another it promotes fairness and transparency, and distributes cost burdens proportionately.
Think you co-mingled mine and Noway’s posts- for shame! ;b
But for my part, I see voluntarily paying the costs of citizenship as the same as a form of community service. Not going out of your way to do good type of service, just subjugating selfishness or greed in order to contribute to community.
In the tweeted words of LOL GOP, previously shared here, “I only want to pay for the nuclear weapons my family is personally going to use.” 6:58 PM – 20 Sep 2017
Shocker. The dems are doubling down on stupid. Surprised Nancy didn’t accuse anyone getting a slice of that tax cut of being a Russian bot.
The dem party going all in against tax cuts for the middle class may turn out to be a political miscalculation of historic proportions.
A few pennies per hundred a week isn’t much of a tax cut for me. And those ‘other guys’ keep trying trying to sell me this as a ‘wage increase’. So insulting. I’m betting the dems are going to keep selling expanded medicare as the ship sinker.
Dems are just fulfilling their (our) traditional role of trying figure out how to pay for Repub vote buying.
Yale’s Famed Whiffenpoofs Singing Group Admits First Woman (Don’t worry, she’s a Tenor I)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/nyregion/yale-whiffenpoofs-first-woman.html
More options for healthy people, less options for people not born healthy…
https://www.axios.com/the-big-picture-on-trumps-health-care-changes-cc1f5b4c-89ae-4031-89f7-9fdb1ae08ee5.html
Florida voted 111-1 Tuesday to replace the statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith with a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capital.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-bethune-statue-florida-20180220-story.html
Georgia’s Alexander Stephens statute needs to go.
Meanwhile, in tax cut news…
https://www.axios.com/113-companies-announce-stock-buybacks-1519158953-2c1d231d-3160-4301-8b9e-cb343620f190.html?source=sidebar
You honestly think these are my guys? If the continued respect we have for each other is going to continue then these types of comments are going to need to stop.
Anyone who links to an Alex Jones article has no right to talk about anything. Including how many eggs go into an omelet.
Anyone who says that these kids are actors have no right to ever appear on a TV or radio again.
Borrowing a tweet here as a reply, “Right now in America there are Republicans who received millions of dollars from the NRA accusing CHILDREN who survived a massacre of being PAID to speak out on Guns.”
A little perspective, NoParty. “Right now in America there are Dems who receive millions from Planned Parenthood and NONE of those children survive those massacres.”
It would be interesting to see the difference in campaign contributions of the NRA v Planned Parenthood and how many years it takes to reach the millions (plural) for each organization and candidate. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00314617&cycle=2012.