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Southwest Hits Turbulence, Global Corporation Tax, Virginia Dems Panicking

October 11, 2021 by GregC

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Join Greg and Rob Long as they try to figure out exactly what’s causing hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights to be cancelled for the third day in a row. The airline is clearly lying but is this resistance to the vaccine mandate or something else? And if it is about the mandates, what happens next? They also shudder as the Biden administration joins most other countries in supporting a global minimum tax for corporations. And they cry foul as some Virginia Democrats look to loosen absentee voter requirements now that the Virginia governor’s race might not be going their way. They also touch on Columbus Day and the latest insane law in California.

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Filed Under: congress, Constitution, COVID-19, Elections, Foreign Policy, History, News & Politics, Taxes, United Nations Tagged With: absentees, corporations, democrats, Global, National Review, Southwest, taxes, Three Martini Lunch, United Nations, Virginia

Corporate America Plays Politics, Biden’s War on Freelancers, Kids & COVID Vaccines

April 1, 2021 by GregC

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Chad Benson is in for Jim today. Join Greg and Chad as they discuss corporate America’s spineless response to yet another political controversy. They also take a deeper dive into Joe Biden’s effort to boost labor unions by crushing freelance work. They fume as Dr. Fauci and others suddenly decide kids now have to be vaccinated before life returns to normal, and they remember the fascinating and controversial life of the one and only G. Gordon Liddy.

 

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Filed Under: COVID-19, Economy, Education, Elections, Entertainment, Health Care, History, Humor, News & Politics, Sports Tagged With: All-Star game, Biden, corporations, COVID, Fauci, freelance, kids, Liddy, National Review, PRO Act, Three Martini Lunch, unions, vaccines, woke

Brady Talks Tax Reform

December 21, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/12-21-brady-blog.mp3

The man who spearheaded the tax reform effort in the House of Representatives says the new provisions will accelerate America’s economic growth and surpass previous expectations thanks to middle class tax relief and a far more favorable environment for corporations and small businesses.

On Wednesday, both the House and Senate approved the $1.5 trillion package without any support from Democrats on either side of Capitol Hill.  The win for the GOP ends the year on a political high months after the deep frustration of failing to pass an Obamacare repeal or reform bill.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, led the tax reform push in the House of Representatives.  He says the key to success on this package was Republicans all starting on the same legislative page.  And Brady says the credit for that belongs at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

“We started off from a good place.  There was a lot of common ground.  That’s because President Trump agreed this summer to work with the House and Senate tax writers towards one tax reform approach.  That really made the difference in my view,” said Brady.

There were some important differences between the original House and Senate bills that needed to be ironed out in a conference committee.  The Senate got its way in keeping seven tax brackets, although they were adjusted to make sure the vast majority of Americans got a tax cut, and repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate.

The House also won some tussles in conference, including what Brady believes might be the most important provision in the bill.

“The most important economic issue was to make sure that these tax cuts occurred for local businesses  as well as our companies that compete around the world now, on January 1st of next year.  We need that growth and expansion now,” said Brady.

In the end, Brady says the final bill was better than either the House or Senate bills, something he says almost never happens in Congress.

The passage of the tax reform package comes at a time when the stock market is booming and economists see GDP growth of three percent or more for quite a while.  Brady says the new laws will accelerate our growth even more.

“[Economists] think that will stay this way for another decade or more, so the question for the country is do we just settle for this very slow growth where paychecks never move and kids come out of school without good paying jobs or do we shake it up?” asked Brady.

“This tax reform plan was about shaking it up, giving people back more of what they earn, creating an economy where their paychecks grow and getting our jobs back from overseas.  This tax reform plan achieves that in a big way,” said Brady.

Brady says virtually everyone will benefit from the new law, starting with middle class families.

“If you look at the typical family of four in America, they make $73,000, so two blue-collar workers.  They save $2,059.  I know Washington doesn’t think that’s much.  But for American families, that really matters,” said Brady.

A dozen House Republicans voted against the bill over the issue of state and local tax deductions.  Previously, Americans could deduct those against their federal taxes.  The new bill restricts the deductions to the first $10,000 in state and local taxes, meaning wealthy people in high tax states like California, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey may well see higher tax bills.

But Brady says everybody else will have more money in their pockets.

“I don’t believe it will.  Even the Tax Policy Center, which is very, very liberal and doesn’t even count growth and pretends the economy never changes – even they say 90 percent of Americans will see a tax cut, a real tax cut.  Five percent will be close to break even.  So this is real tax relief,” said Brady.

The biggest cuts, however, are for businesses, with corporate rates dropping 40 percent from 35 percent to 21 percent.  Democrats assert that the money won’t go to new jobs or company expansion but will instead line the pockets of executives and shareholders.

Brady disagrees, contending businesses have been begging for tax relief for years in an effort to get more competitive.

“That 21 percent rate was all about making our businesses able to compete and win anywhere in the world, including here at home in America, then to be able to bring their earnings back to be reinvested in America.  They can’t do that today.

“So that rate wasn’t a giveaway.  It was a ‘get-them-back’ tax rate to bring our jobs back to America and make sure our workers and their businesses can compete,” said Brady.

Critics aren’t so sure.  In a column for the Weekly Standard, Matt Labash excoriated Republicans for throwing crumbs to the middle class while giving a big wet kiss to big business.  Labash points out that of the $1.5 trillion in tax relief, one trillion goes to businesses and $200 billion comes in estate tax relief, leaving just $300 billion over ten years in personal income tax relief.

Brady believes that’s a bad interpretation of the impact this bill will have on middle class families.

“Middle class tax relief is the top priority.  You’ll see in there, up and down those income brackets, people are going to be able to keep more of what they earn and, more importantly, get those paychecks up by encouraging businesses to invest in workers in their companies.  That is good for middle class America,” said Brady.

Leading liberals in Congress have used very strong language to condemn the legislation.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called it the worst piece of legislation ever to come to the House floor.  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, predicted it would lead to the deaths of 10,000 Americans each year.

“I think they’re so obsessed with these things that they’ve ignored what this really does, which is to get America growing again and get people back on their feet in the economy,” said Brady.

“When they talk about the worst piece of legislation, I think most people look at Obamacare that’s the worst piece of legislation that’s been approved.  Getting the individual mandate removed so people have choice about whether they want that health care is very critical,” said Brady.

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‘Dirty Dozen’ Firms Facilitating Sexual Exploitation Exposed

February 28, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/2-28-halverson-blog.mp3

Social media, premium and cable television and educational resources are all among the worst corporations to profit from and facilitate sexual exploitation, according to a new story.

The “Dirty Dozen List” is a project of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.  Communications Director Haley Halverson says the list is designed to highlight the worst offenders in several different venues.

“We’re targeting 12 mainstream corporations or organizations that we invite into our home, and that we think of as a reputable brand, that are facilitating pornography, prostitution or sex trafficking,” said Halverson.

The “Dirty Dozen List” has a page of information for each entity, so concerned citizens can reach out and urge the companies to change course.

“We don’t typically advocate for boycotts since that’s often not that effective.  But we have created several different ways you can reach out and email the executives at these companies and it’s been tremendously expensive,” said Halverson, noting public pressure works quite well.

“We’ve changed policies at Google, the Department of Defense, at Walmart and Hilton Worldwide.  The Hilton Worldwide hotel company used to sell on-demand pornography.  For an example, when they contacted us to say that they would stop selling this contact, they told us they were receiving a thousand emails a week from our supporters,” said Halverson.

The list includes social media giants Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat.  Halverson says Snapchat’s entire history is clogged with trafficking in obscenity.

“Snapchat is frequently used for sexting.  With its new addition of Snapcash, Snapchat is actually monetizing a lot of sexting, some child pornography and also prostitution,” said Halverson.

“That’s something that Snapchat could easily fix or at least clean up by allowing users to age-gate some sexually graphic content that in their ‘Discover Stories’ section.  Snapchat has actually been sued by a 14-year-old who was exposed to some graphic material in their stories section, which users can’t opt out of.  They have to see what these images are,” said Halverson.

YouTube has volumes of explicit material available and Halverson says that site and Twitter do a terrible job of enforcing their policies against such content.

“They’ll have a policy against something like pornography or prostitution but then they won’t do anything to enforce it.  It’s time that we just stand up and say. ‘It’s your platform and if you’re going to have this policy, you need to do your best to actually create a safe and friendly user environment,” said Halverson.

Comcast makes the “Dirty Dozen List” while Verizon does not.  Halverson says Verizon is taking steps to force users to access explicit programs rather than listing it where every family member can see it.  She says Comcast is doing just the opposite.

“Not only do they sell this on-demand pornography, but they’ve actually written us a letter defending the pornography on there that has very violent, incest and racist themes, saying it’s all part of their consumer choice,” said Halverson.

HBO is also cited.  Halverson says the premium cable outlet is guilty of “mainstreaming” pornography in popular television programs such as “Game of Thrones” and “Westworld.”  Other violators in this category include Roku, Amazon, Backpage, and Cosmopolitan magazine.

The list also takes aim at educational institutions that insist on making explicit material available to users of any age, specifically the American Library Association, or ALA, and Ebsco.  The American Library Association consistently says it refuses to allow internet filters because of its commitment to the first amendment.

Ebsco specifically caters to kids.

“They’re an online resource to public and private school and some libraries.  They’re basically a big database that kids can go in and find some academic resources for their papers,” said Halverson.

However, she says they end up finding a lot more.

“You can go in there and search something as innocent as seventh grade biology and there will be links to hardcore pornography websites.  There will be articles advising kids to try public, violent, and anal sex and on how to convince your girlfriend to do that,” said Halverson, who notes that elementary school kids use the resource as well.

Halverson also pushes back against the argument that the first amendment is an adequate defense for allowing kids to see such content.

“The first amendment does not protect obscenity, which is most hardcore pornography.  That has been upheld by the Supreme Court several times.  Secondly, the Supreme Court rules against the ALA in a case, saying that it is OK within the first amendment to filter out sexually graphic material in order to create a safe environment for children to learn,” said Halverson.

One asset in the fight against the proliferation of obscene materials is a Justice Department willing to enforce existing laws.  Halverson says the DOJ almost made the list due its inaction.

“The last administration did not enforce this law.  They’re on the watch list now because it’s still early.  We’re waiting to see what the DOJ will do moving forward,” said Halverson.

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