Tag: government
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2024 Republican Presidential possibilities
At the top of my list of possibilities for the 2024 Republican nomination for President of the United States are both Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem. Both are governors of states that used common sense when it came to COVID-19. Governor Noem exercised a little more probably because it was easier for her state given…
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House Democrats ignore rules to ramrod minimum wage increase through
The Democrats have no shame. When the rules don’t favor them they obfuscate, avoid, circumvent, and even ignore them. An effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 as part of the relief package was thrown into doubt after a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian late Thursday. The nonpartisan parliamentarian said that raising…
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Dr. Levine should not be confirmed
Dr. Levine won’t answer a simple question regarding the federal government allowing for minors to make decisions on hormone therapy and surgery on their genitalia. This person should not be confirmed. Exchange between Sen. @RandPaul and Dr. Rachel Levine on on Gender Transition. pic.twitter.com/uL0zPTAmke — CSPAN (@cspan) February 25, 2021
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The U.S. income boost shell game
The government of the United States is playing a dangerous shell game with our money. Look at the headline above. This is the fakest of fake news that I have ever read. It gets even worse in the article. U.S. household income jumped 10% in January as the government delivered stimulus payments to households and…
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Georgia vs. Illinois on gun ownership
I have been living in Georgia for about four months and the differences between here and Illinois become more stark every day. A great example is obtaining a firearm concealed carry permit. It’s called a weapons carry license (WCL) in Georgia. In Illinois you have to first obtain a Firearms Owner’s Identification (FOID) card. You…
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Why Georgia needs to remain red
I come from Illinois where the government never met a tax or fee it didn’t like. Living in Illinois for 53 years, never has a proposal been pushed to reduce taxes of any kind. We had one case where the state raised the income tax rate from 3% to 5% then rolled it back to…