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Abortion & the Filibuster, Killing Russian Generals, The Aggressive Green Agenda

May 5, 2022 by GregC

Listen to “Abortion & the Filibuster, Killing Russian Generals, The Aggressive Green Agenda” on Spreaker.

Join Greg and Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist as they welcome signs from Sen. Susan Collins that she has no intention of ending the filibuster to pass abortion legislation but they also note how abortion could cause tension inside a GOP coalition that now includes a lot of people who don’t consider themselves social conservatives. They also wonder why U.S. officials would publicly confirm that American intelligence has been directly involved in tracking and targeting Russian generals killed by Ukraine. And they fire back as Biden climate adviser Gina McCarthy vows an aggressive green agenda – including more than a hundred regulations on appliances and severe demands for “sustainable airlines.”

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Filed Under: Abortion, Climate, congress, Elections, Energy, Foreign Policy, Health Care, History, Humor, Inflation, Journalism, News & Politics, Regulations, Russia, Ukraine Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, abortion, Airlines, appliances, Barstool conservatives, coalition, Collins, filibuster, generals, Green, intelligence, McCarthy, regulations, russia, Ukraine

The Economy: Another Jump in Jobs, Coronavirus Impact Looms

March 6, 2020 by GregC

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The U.S. economy keeps humming along, boosted on Friday by much stronger February job growth than expected, but with the markets in turmoil over the coronavirus, what will the economic impact be in the weeks and months to come?

On Friday, the Labor Department released the February jobs report, showing 273,000 new hires, nearly 100,000 more than Wall Street analysts anticipated.  Hiring was strong across most sectors and the unemployment rate once again dipped to a roughly 50-year low of 3.5 percent.

What is driving this continued hiring and economic growth?  Supporters of President Trump or his policies point to tax cuts and regulatory reductions as spurring business owners to add personnel or expand operations, but how exactly do those policies do that?

Heritage Foundation economist Joel Griffith shares those answers with Radio America’s Greg Corombos.  Griffith also explains why the markets are wildly fluctuating in response to the coronavoirus threat, which policies make the most sense in response, and why the Federal Reserve was wrong to institute an unscheduled interest rate cut this week.

Listen here for the full podcast.

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Filed Under: Economy, Health Care, Journalism Tagged With: coronavirus, Economy, Federal Reserve, jobs, news, regulations, taxes

Why Small Businesses Could Be Big Winners in USMCA

January 17, 2020 by GregC

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On Thursday, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved the USMCA, the new North American trade compact among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, and a leading small business advocate says there are plenty of changes to make life easier for American businesses and entrepreneurs.

What regulatory changes will help business owners keep costs down? How does the agreement give small business a much bigger voice in future trade deliberations? What additional provisions are included to protect intellectual property rights?

We get answers to those questions and discuss the ongoing trade talks with China with Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council.

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Filed Under: Economy, News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Canada, China, Mexico, news, regulations, trade, Trump, USMCA

California Crushes the Gig Economy

December 23, 2019 by GregC

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Earlier this year, California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted legislation they promised would protect independent workers.  Passed by the Democratic-dominated legislature, the law requires businesses to treat freelance workers like formal employees.

The goal was to prevent independent contractors from being exploited.  In reality, it’s putting them out of work.  Instead of complying with the new mandatory bureaucracy, businesses are severing ties with their outside talent and stories of websites and other businesses announcing massive layoffs are widespread.

What exactly does the legislation require of employers?  Why are they choosing to release freelance professionals instead of making them actual employees?  And what will happen once the real impact of this law is understood?

In this podcast, we discuss those questions and others with Rachel Greszler, research fellow in economics, budget, and entitlements at the Heritage Foundation.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: California, Economy, gig, Greszler, news, regulations

Regulatory Rollback, Dem Funding Flop, Impeachment Obsession

January 4, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud the Trump administration for keeping its word to aggressively roll back burdensome government regulations.  They also roll their eyes as House Democrats pass a bill to end the partial government shutdown that has zero chance of becoming law.  And they react to new Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib admitting, through coarse language, that she came to Washington to impeach President Trump.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: democrats, funding, impeachment, National Review, regulations, Three Martini Lunch, Tlaib, Trump

Cuccinelli: GOP Emboldened on Border Wall Fight

January 3, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “Cuccinelli: GOP Emboldened on Border Wall Fight” on Spreaker.

Democrats now control the House of Representatives, but former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says Republicans appear more committed than ever to funding the border wall demanded by President Trump.

A partial government shutdown has been in effect since Dec. 22 over a stalemate between Republicans and Democrats over funding the border wall.  Prior to Thursday, the stagnation was due to the Senate’s inability to find 60 votes for the funding.

The House Democratic majority has no plans to even consider a bill with money for the wall, but Cuccinelli says the GOP seems much more resolute than usual.

“You don’t hear me say this very often.  I was pleased to see (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell say we’re not going to pass along the House bill that doesn’t include this funding.  So he has expressly sided with the president.  And I think that’s a first on this issue,” said Cuccinelli.

“I think that show of unity between the new Senate Republican majority, which is bigger than the last one, and the president should be able to hold the line,” said Cuccinelli.

Cuccinelli expects Republicans to stand strong even as the post-holiday media pressure to end the partial shutdown intensifies.

“I don’t see a lot of the usual hand-wringing among Republicans, including establishment Republicans, that I’m used to seeing in circumstances like this.  I think, at least for now, they’re girded for a bit of a haul and to salvage some good policy at the border out of this,” said Cuccinelli.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Cuccinelli’s advice for how the GOP’s Senate majority and House minority ought to focus their time and energy over the next two years and how the Trump administration is doing far more to roll back regulations and limit new ones than any administration in recent memory.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: border, congress, house, news, regulations, Senate, shutdown, Trump, wall

Broward County Accountability, Libs Target Internet, Maduro Assassination Attempt

August 7, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are pleased to see a key figure from the Florida high school shooting replaced in the Broward County Sheriff’s Office but are irritated the media has stopped covering Sheriff Scott Israel, who still has his job despite failing to perform his duties before and during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. They also reject Democrats’ call to regulate the internet as a public utility in the wake of Facebook, Apple, and YouTube’s ban of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. And they mourn for Venezuelans as dictator Nicolas Maduro survived a botched drone assassination attempt, and they discuss regulations on drones and the potential to use them for terrorism.

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Filed Under: congress, Economy, News and Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 3MartiniLunch, Alex Jones, apple, assassination, Broward County, drones, Facebook, internet, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, National Review, Nicolas Maduro, regulations, Scott Israel, Venezuela, YouTube

Free States = Thriving States

April 23, 2018 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/4-18-williams-blog.mp3

Businesses and families vote with their feet and a new study of the states with the brightest economic futures suggests lower taxes and less regulation are a prescription for sustained growth, while heavy burdens from government lead to decline.

In the 2018 edition of “Rich States, Poor States,” published by the American Legislative Exchange Council, economists Jonathan Williams, Stephen Moore, and Arthur Laffer, say it’s clear which states are thriving and which ones are floundering.

For the eleventh consecutive year, Utah tops the list of states with the brightest outlooks.  Idaho, Indiana, North Dakota, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Virginia round out the top ten.

New York finished dead last in the study.  Vermont, Illinois, California, New Jersey, Hawaii, Minnesota, Montana, Maine, and Oregon make up the remainder of the lowest ten states.

Williams says the ranking is simply a compilation of the most important economic measuring sticks.

“We look at things that matter for economic growth,” he said.  “We look at the 15 economic policy variables that Dr. Laffer, my co-author and Reagan economic adviser, came up with years ago that really do matter for economic growth.

“Also, they’re things directly controlled by state lawmakers: tax rates, regulation, labor policy.  Those are really the three broad categories.  In essence, what we have is an economic competitiveness ranking that predicts future growth,” said Williams vice president at the American Legislative Exchange Council..

But Williams says the factors that determine future growth are already producing results, especially for those states at the top of the list.

“It’s where people are voting with their feet and going towards.  It’s where businesses are moving from high tax states to low tax states.  They’re going to states like Utah.  They’re going to states like Indiana, Arizona, Florida, Texas – that whole list of states that are competitive.

And of course they’re flocking to those states from states like New York, Illinois, California, New Jersey – the states that are perennially in the bottom of the index,” said Williams.

He says the number one reason people move is for economic opportunity and the same is true for businesses.

“When the Hertz Corporation leaves New Jersey and relocates and opens in Florida, or when Toyota USA leaves California and goes to Texas, or you see these massive movements of job creators going from high tax states with limited economic opportunity and high cost of doing business to states that value competition and free market environments, you absolutely see the natural connection when people then vote with their feet and go towards those job opportunities,” said Williams.

Williams suspects all states will see their economies improve in the near term, thanks to the federal tax cuts.

“The untold story of the success of federal tax reform is what it’s meant for state budgets.  When states come back and are analyzing what tax reform means for their state budget, they’re seeing, in many cases, hundreds of millions of dollars – if not billions of dollars – in unexpected revenue – coming in at the state level.  That’s because state tax codes link to the federal tax code,” said Williams.

He says two states rocketed up the list this year for taking steps to make the benefits of the federal tax cuts even sweeter.

“Idaho and Georgia were two of the states that utilized that the best this year by cutting their own state tax rates with that unexpected revenue.  Instead of allowing it to be a tax increase at the state level, they’re using it to reduce their tax rates and become more competitive,” said Williams.

Idaho shot up from number ten to number two as a result of those moves.  Georgia jumped from seventeenth to eleventh.  And Williams says many other states are moving up the list because they are embracing freedom.

“Rewind the clock a few years ago and states like North Carolina and Indiana were in the middle of the pack.  Both of those states are in the top ten this year for economic outlook because of great fiscal policy and reforms, tax cuts, pension reform, Indiana of course going right to work.

“States like Wisconsin have made huge movements over the years.  My home state of Michigan (has as well).  New Hampshire, the ‘Live Free or Die” state, moved up to it’s all-time best of number seventeen this year.

“While the states in the bottom of the index have basically been stuck for most of the ten or eleven years (of doing the survey), we’ve seen some great upward mobility of states getting it right and being able to crack through to that upper echelon of rankings,” said Williams.

While some might quibble with the methodology, Williams says you can’t argue with what is actually happening in the states.

“The proof is in the pudding.  The data is very clear that there’s a big growth premium associated with being a competitive state economy,” said Williams.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: news, poor states, reforms, regulations, rich states, tax cut, taxes

Trump Slashes Regulations, Tax Bill Drama, Net Neutrality Hysteria

December 15, 2017 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America applaud President Trump for making good on his efforts to eliminate and postpone costly and burdensome federal regulations.  They also tense up as five different Senate GOP votes could be in jeopardy as vote nears on tax reform.  They shake their heads as liberals lose their minds and predict an internet wasteland after the Federal Communications Commission votes to return internet regulations to where they were two years ago.  And Jim offers a spoiler-free look at the new Star Wars movie.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: child tax credits, John McCain, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, National Review, net neutrality, President Trump, regulations, Senate, Star Wars, tax reform, Thad Cochran, Three Martini Lunch

What We’re Politically Thankful For

November 22, 2017 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-11-22-17-thnkful.mp3

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America look through a rough and often disturbing 2017 to find three things they’re each thankful for in politics and beyond this year.  From some important accomplishments to the arrival of an important new figure in Washington to the bravery of people in different walks of life, Jim and Greg find some silver linings in our toxic political culture.  Happy Thanksgiving!  There will be no podcast on Thursday.  Please join us again on Friday.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Capitol Police, Colin Kaepernick, Harvey Weinstein, James Mattis, National Review, Neil Gorsuch, regulations, Steve Scalise, Thanksgiving, Three Martini Lunch

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