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Morning Reads – Thursday, December 6, 2018

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Good Thursday Morning! Here’s what’s happening around our state and nation:

Peaches

Jimmy Carter

Sweet Tea 

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Jessica Szilagyi

18 Comments
  1. Will Durant

    If $64 million in corporate tax credits pays for 1,100 teachers then it stands to reason that the $100 million being siphoned off to private schools in tax credits would pay for 1,700 more.

  2. Benevolus

    Note to Gov.-elect Kemp- When you get an RFRA bill, will it allow Satanists to adopt children?

  3. Dave Bearse

    “Making sure we keep the voter list up to date so it’s clean, fresh and accurate, it’s very important,” SoS-elect Raffensperger the day after election.

    An independent investigation and report on the undervote of 100,000 in the Lt Gov race, and complete and through examination of the security of all SoS databases, the latter because the Gov-elect had them open to outsiders on a yearly basis, are more important than disenfranchising some voters.

  4. armanidog

    Should the state legislature obey the Open Records Act?

    “State lawmakers have long passed laws that don’t apply to them, but a new case before the Georgia Court of Appeals raises questions about one of their most controversial outs: an exemption from following the Open Records Act transparency statute that most other government officials have to obey.
    A three-judge appeals court panel heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that began when state officials denied records to a nonprofit libertarian public interest law group called the Institute for Justice. The institute was looking into the General Assembly’s 2012 decision to regulate the practice of music therapy.

    Among other things, the group produces reports on how lobbyists for professions often persuade state legislatures to pass licensing and regulation laws to limit competition.

    However, once the group sought public records on how the law was created, it ran into a roadblock reporters and plenty of Georgia residents have long known about: the General Assembly — which receives more than $43 million in taxpayer funding each year and has the ability to regulate the health, taxes and professions of Georgians — and its offices don’t have to follow state transparency laws…

    Such records are already open for state agencies and most other governments in Georgia. But Harris’ argument led members of the appeals court to ask whether opening up legislative offices to transparency laws would mean now-exempt judicial offices would also face more scrutiny.

    “If we were to agree to a reading of your definition of ‘office,’ would the (court) clerk’s office and other offices be subject to the act?” Judge Carla Wong McMillian asked.

    Jeff Lanier, deputy legislative counsel, told them they could be. So the court has a personal stake in the issue.”

    https://politics.myajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/court-case-strikes-georgia-legislature-ability-exempt-its-staff/N92eAhjGID2giQyVYP2SDI/

    The judges will probably shy away from opening their own offices to public scrutiny. I would hope the state legislature would voluntarily apply the law to themselves but they probably like the secrecy too much.

  5. Ellynn

    This list has someone on it for everyone to like and dislike…

    https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-bloomberg-50/#jose-andres

  8. Ellynn

    If you don’t follow Tom, you should. And his latest book is worth reading too.

    https://twitter.com/radiofreetom/status/1070716754731679749?s=11

    • Dave Bearse

      No need to worry about the $56B October trade deficit. “[T]rade wars are good, and easy to win.”

      Nor is there need to worry about 2018’s $780B increase in the national debt, the highest since 2012 when the country was exiting the great recession.

      Trump said the $19 trillion national debt could be eliminated by 2024. Having invented the phrase “prime the pump”, proves his economic bona fides.

      • Ellynn

        This is really bad downthemiddle impersonation.

        (yes I know you’re being snaky)

    • xdog

      How’d y’all like the latest in the trade wars, where the US leaned on Canada to arrest the CFO of a Chinese IT company because we’re convinced they trade with Iranians and build back-doors in their components? The arrest comes just a week after the administration assured us that we had new trade understandings with China.

      Add in that the CFO happens to be a sister of the company’s founder and that the administration’s goal seems to be that foreign companies follow domestic policy, and we have markets in continued uproar and the always wary and nationalistic Chinese incensed.

      All that’s left for another TinyHand triumph is to get the Canadians to hand her over to us so we can ship her off to the Turks to get them to lay off the Saudis so they’ll keep brutalizing the Yemenis so that the Iranians will be forced to pull their support and go home, and we’ll have them where we want them. Surely the plan of a stable genius.

      • Dave Bearse

        Continuing with the snark, Trump did such a great job lining up EU, North American and US Asian allies behind action against Chinese theft of intellectual property and unfair trade and domestic market practices, that all are no doubt on board.

        I commented here months ago that it was time to reallocate a good chunk out of equities. Wish I’d followed my own advice. but inertia is strong and there was almost nowhere to go.

        Now three year bond yields are inverted. Consider this a prediction of recession in or prior to 2020.

      • Ellynn

        Left a Bloomberg link a few space back with the comments

        “How to make trade wars harder to win…”

  11. xdog

    U.S. nabbing Huawei is the dog that caught the car.

    ” regulations need the support of allies. And that will require Trump to spend more time being friendly to the U.S.’s friends and less time being friendly to its enemies. It would also require the U.S. to recognize that not every problem can be solved with a sledgehammer.”

  12. Dave Bearse

    Trump said the GOP’s tax legislation would repatriate $4 trillion in overseas profits to the US. It’s only been one-half trillion so far. Trump’s “very, very large brain” and the best and brightest couldn’t comprehend that foreigners imposing taxes on money leaving their countries would cause companies like Johnson & Johnson, Ebay and Cigna to leave their money where it is.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trumps-tax-promise-of-trillions-back-to-us-fails-to-materialize/ar-BBQAR8O?ocid=spartanntp

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