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A report from the Tax Foundation is warning that Joe Biden's newest plans for higher taxes on corporations and rich Americans would cost the jobs of 788,000 people.
Fox News says the foundation assessment of Biden's plans confirms he would reduce economic output by 2.2%, slash wages 1.6% and cost those hundreds of thousands of "full-time equivalent jobs."
It's already been reported Biden is demanding a 25% minimum tax rate on households worth more than $100 million, much higher capital-gains tax rates, to explode the corporate stock buyback tax by 400%, to raise the corporate income tax rate to 28%, and that some Americans pay more for Medicare tax and more.
He wants to spend much of the increased revenue for the government on his programs, such as a tax credit to help "some" homeowners pay mortgages and subsidies for child care and drugs, the Fox report said.
The top tax rate paid on capital gains explodes to 49.9% under Biden's plan, and he would double the taxes American companies pay on foreign income.
The foundation noted, "Our economic estimates likely understate the effects of the budget since they exclude two novel and highly uncertain yet large tax increases on high earners and multinational corporations, namely a new minimum tax on unrealized capital gains and an undertaxed profits rule (UTPR) consistent with the OECD/G20 global minimum tax model rules."
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President Trump has responded to Joe Biden's designation of Easter Sunday as "Transgender Day of Visibility" with plans for another new "day."
A "Christian Day of Visibility," which would be Nov. 5, also election day.
A report at Trending Politics News said Trump told reporters during a visit to Green Bay Wisconsin, "On November 5 we are going to win this state, we're going to win the White House and we are going to save our country.
"November 5th is going to be called something else. You know what it’s going to be called? Christian Visibility Day, when Christians turn out in numbers that nobody has ever seen before," he said.
It was Biden who, while banning children from using "religious symbols" in the White House annual egg decorating contest, insisted Easter Sunday was "Transgender Day of Visibility."
White House officials said it was just chance that it landed on Easter Sunday, even though the Biden declarations specifically cites that day.
In fact, on social media, Biden claimed, 'On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate the joy, strength, and absolute courage of some of the bravest people I know. Today, we show millions of transgender and nonbinary Americans that we see them, they belong, and they should be treated with dignity and respect."
Legacy media defended Biden, claiming the day falls on March 31 every, but Biden had not tweeted about that event until this year.
Biden immediately was the target of criticism for his signature on that "Transgender" promotion proclamation.
Some Christians considered it blasphemous, including Judie Brown, head of the American Life League.
In a statement, she joined top Catholic theologian Cardinal Gerhard Muller, who has condemned Biden's open defiance of Catholic church teachings, even though he claims to be a faithful Catholic.
Muller has spoken against Biden's "open support" of abortion and other actions deemed immoral by the church.
Regarding the designation of Easter Sunday as the "day" for transgenders, Brown explained, "Cardinal Gerhard Müller recently made headlines for suggesting that the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is a 'nominal Catholic' and should be excommunicated for his support of abortion and other sinful practices. Müller’s call was affirmed on Friday, March 29, 2024, when President Biden issued a Proclamation Transgender Day of Visibility 2024.
"This is proof positive that Biden has no respect for the teachings of the Catholic Church, does not understand the basic truth that God created man in His image, male and female, and that anyone or any statement that violates that basic teaching is an abomination. It is the work of the devil who is operating through the actions and words of Biden himself," she said.
"The American Life League joins Cardinal Müller in calling for the immediate excommunication of Joseph Biden. We are sending this urgent call for justice and in defense of Truth to every Catholic Bishop in the United States. Biden is not a Catholic, he is an evil man who consistently spits in the face of Christ."
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It was only days ago that Reggie Walton, a sitting federal judge who has heard Jan. 6 cases involving supporters of President Donald Trump, and often has thrown the book at defendants, mouthed off about Trump.
WND reported Walton blasted Trump for the president's criticism of another judge who is hearing a Trump case, and who may well have been compromised already by his daughter's partisan agenda.
Walton granted an interview to CNN and repeatedly bashed Trump, who has been targeted by multiple Democrat lawfare cases, including a contrived "hush money" case being heard by Judge Juan Merchan. It is Merchan whose daughter has represented, in her job, "Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, and other Radical Liberals," Trump, who asked Merchan to recuse himself, has charged.
Merchan has responded by ordering Trump's comments to be censored.
Now Walton may be more involved in the dispute than he wanted to be, as the New York Post explains he's facing an ethics complaint for his comments.
"We are seeing a dangerous pattern in which DC federal judges, like … Reggie Walton have convinced themselves they have a duty–unbounded by the judicial canons–to make extrajudicial pronouncements about President Trump," his 13-page accusation includes.
Davis sent his complaint to Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Davis told the New York Post a reprimand would be appropriate for Walton, to "send a very clear message" that judges "cannot take off their political robes and climb into the political arena."
He cited the Code of Conduct for United States Judges that judges are not allowed to "denigrate public confidence in the judiciary’s integrity."
Davis, in the Post report, said, "It is much worse when a different judge–especially a sitting federal judge–thinks it is his job to moonlight as a CNN commentator on a pending criminal case in another judge’s court."
Trump accused Merchan of suffering from "Acute Trump derangement syndrome" and said he was "compromised."
The letter cites the politics of the case against Trump, and the fact that Democrats are trying to prevent him from exercising his speech rights on the topic.
"If there is anyone in America who must have the constitutional right to speak out against the judge, the prosecutors, their staff, the witnesses, their potential biases, and the criminal process, it is a criminal defendant. Preventing a criminal defendant from exercising this bedrock constitutional right through a gag order–a prior restraint on free speech and an obvious obstacle to due process and a fair trial–is illegal, unconstitutional, and unconscionable," the letter said. "This is especially true when a criminal defendant believes political opponents have politicized and weaponized our criminal-justice system against him. It is truly unbelievable that any American judge would place a gag order on a presidential candidate during the height of a presidential campaign, especially when the presidential candidate believes the criminal indictments are part of his opponent’s political campaign of lawfare and election interference."
The letter added, "We have entered very dangerous territory as a country when attorneys accuse a criminal defendant of making a 'violent threat' against a judge for simply raising evidence of the judge’s potential bias. And it would be inexcusable for another sitting judge–especially a federal judge–to go on a primetime national television broadcast, with hundreds of thousands of viewers (including the criminal defendant's jury pool), and make such clearly inappropriate, defamatory, highly prejudicial, and outrageous claims against a criminal defendant while his criminal case is pending trial before a different judge."
It continued, "Unbelievably, this is precisely what Judge Reggie Walton, a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, did…"
Davis noted that earlier another judge, Beryl Howell, made comments about Trump "unbounded by the judicial canons."
The letter notes that Walton earlier blasted Trump as a "charlatan."
Davis' letter warns that Walton's rant may already have "poisoned" a potential jury poll for case against Trump.
Merchan, in fact, has issued a gag order against Trump banning him from commenting on many people and issues.
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Legal experts at the Liberty Justice Center have written to the prosecuting attorney in Harris County, Texas, calling for an investigation of a school district for election interference.
The letter to District Attorney Kim Ogg in Houston explains that voter affidavits accuse the superintendent of "a misdemeanor" violation of the state election code prohibition on "using public resources for political advertising."
The charged violation concerns the 2024 primary and general elections for the Texas Legislature and a school bond initiative.
The letter explains:
On March 1, the Texas Attorney General filed a Petition in the District Court of Harris County seeking injunctive relief against the District, its trustees, and Superintendent Benny Soileau (the “Petition”). The Petition alleges that Superintendent Soileau held a February 7, 2024 meeting on school grounds during which he directed Hargrave High School Administration faculty and staff to support candidates who oppose the expansion of school choice initiatives in Texas.
The legal team said the state allows, "If two or more registered voters of the territory covered by an election present affidavits alleging criminal conduct in connection with the election to the county or district attorney having jurisdiction in that territory, the county or district attorney shall investigate the allegations."
The evidence includes an image of an email from the principal of Hargrave High ordering "ALL staff" to attend the political meeting.
"The affiants also allege a similar use of District resources in August of 2023 to electioneer in favor of Huffman Independent School District Proposition A, a November 2023 bond initiative. During that meeting, Superintendent Soileau allegedly directed the participants to vote in favor of the bond, explaining that he would award raises if the election results were favorable."
Liberty Justice reported that it recently proposed a similar investigation in Denton County.
Then "registered voters in Harris County contacted LJC with a similar story of corruption in their own school district," so it has submitted a demand in that county as well.
The organization reported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also has been involved, filing a petition making allegations against the Huffman district.
"The Liberty Justice Center’s demand letter to the Harris County District Attorney argues that these uses of public resources for political advertising constitute illegal electioneering, which is a misdemeanor under the Texas Election Code. The affidavits enclosed with the letter require the District Attorney to initiate a criminal investigation," Liberty Justice said.
"Officials at the Huffman Independent School District illegally used school resources to pressure their employees to oppose school choice candidates," said Dean McGee, of Liberty Justice. "They violated state law—and voters’ trust—by abusing their positions of authority. We are proud to stand with Harris County voters demanding a criminal investigation by the District Attorney."
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A North Carolina business owner and the Pacific Legal Foundation have filed a lawsuit against Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency for ignoring a water law precedent established by the U.S. Supreme Court several years ago.
That precedent, in a case involving the Sackett family of Idaho, established that "waters," in order to be considered "waters of the U.S.," must be connected by surface water to an actual federal water resource, such as a lake or river.
That case essentially involved some soggy pieces of a residential subdivision lot on which the Sacketts wanted to build a home. The Supreme Court ruled in their favor twice, establishing that the EPA could not attack, threaten and punish them over water the bureaucracy had no claim over.
In the newest dispute, Robert White of North Carolina filed an action against the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers "for ignoring" the Supreme Court's ruling.
"Ours is a nation of laws, not of unrestrained bureaucrats," said Charles Yates, a Pacific Legal Foundation lawyer. "EPA’s new navigable waters rule completely fails to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA. Regulators cannot ignore the Supreme Court when it rules against them."
The legal team explained the Sackett II ruling established that the Clean Water Act "extends to only those wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are 'waters of the United States' in their own right, so that they are indistinguishable from those waters."
The PLF said White has worked for years to build a commercial seafood business, and he's invested much in coastal property as a way "to ensure financial security for his children."
The problem is he's facing financial ruin because of the "remorseless power grab by two federal agencies, even after they were unanimously rebuked by the Supreme Court."
"Some of Robert’s land is in a low-lying region along Big Flatty Creek and the Pasquotank River and is prone to flooding. Robert set out to make the necessary improvements to minimize flooding risks and to facilitate productive uses, including agriculture and mineral extraction," the legal team said.
White obtained all the needed state permits and permissions, but then was put in a bull's-eye by the EPA and Corps of Engineers, which claimed his land has "navigable waters."
While the case against White was begun before the final Sackett ruling, that in and of itself should have prompted a "change" in the bureaucrats' action, but it didn't, the PLF said.
And, the legal team said, the EPA's new "rule" that allegedly meets the requirements of the Supreme Court's standard, doesn't.
Instead, the agencies claim "broad federal authority over enormous areas of private land, in every corner of the country," the PLF said.
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There is ample evidence the illegal aliens invading the United States under Joe Biden's open borders policy have brought in dangerous diseases – infections like chicken pox, mumps, measles and tuberculosis, that mostly had been eliminated from America.
But now a report by the Epoch Times warns that diseases riding the flood of illegals into the United States actually could threaten the nation's food supply.
That tuberculosis, for example, already has infected cattle in Texas, the report said.
And worse could be coming.
The report noted with "unfettered illegal immigration – some 9 million encounters since 2021" – there's simply no option for screening for "unwanted diseases."
It was Dr Michael Vickers, a veterinarian for 50 years and member of the Texas Animal Health Commission, who said the tuberculosis cases in dairy cattle were just the start, and "it’s only a matter of time before U.S. agriculture experiences a fresh disaster on a grand scale," the report explained.
"These people are just destroying our country. And our food supply is going to be a real critical issue," he confirmed in an interview with the Times.
He said in recent years "thousands" of cattle in Texas have been slaughter after being infected with TB, and not just TB, but drug-resistant TB, through contact with illegal aliens.
In 2015 one disaster hit a herd of about 10,000 cattle in Castro County and in 2019 another calamity hit a herd of 13,000 in Sherman County, the report said.
The Times revealed tests confirmed the strains originated outside of the U.S.
The infections are spread because, officials explained, illegal aliens are often hired to care for the herds, actually doing the milking many times.
Vickers told the Times the USDA bought the Castro herd and slaughtered it. In the later case, TB tests continue with infected animals removed.
He said, in the report, 12 illegal aliens working with those herds also were found to be infected.
The problem is that rules intended to screen people who are carrying such infections out were "sidelined" by Biden.
Ammon Blair, of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the Times, "We’re really just mass releasing these people into the United States that could be carrying multiple diseases that aren’t even checked."
The report said there also have been spotted outbreaks including screwworm, tick fever, malaria-like infections and worse.
The diseases can arrive as larvae riding on illegals, in luggage, on backpacks and more.
The report explained the problem: "President Joe Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump’s 'Remain in Mexico' policy, under which would-be asylum-seekers stayed in Mexico while awaiting adjudication on their immigration court case. Instead, most are released directly into the United States. That has allowed wholesale importation of illnesses that illegal immigrants may have."
And it noted there have been cases in which illegal aliens brought into the U.S. chicken pox, mumps, measles, leprosy, COVID-19, and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Documentation from the federal government has confirmed that Joe Biden's dogs, while he's been in the White House, have attacked and bitten dozens of federal workers, including Secret Service employees, and at least one ended up hospitalized.
He thinks it's funny.
So he made a joke at a fundraiser for his campaign this week.
The Gateway Pundit immediately skewered him for his lack of concern over those injured by his dogs.
The report recalled, "The attacks by Commander and the Bidens’ previous Shepherd Major were so numerous and severe that each dog was exiled from the White House and Biden family–but only after news of the attacks leaked to the media."
The fundraiser, at which Barack Obama and Bill Clinton appeared, had tickets costing up to $500,000.
"Reuters reporter Nandita Bose reported the joke by Biden, “'@JoeBiden at the NY fundraiser: Harry Truman said if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. I got one and it bit a secret service agent,'" the report said.
And the Pundit noted the Bidens are "in your face" about "their vicious dogs" because they featured one on this year's official White House Easter Egg.
It was government watchdog Judicial Watch that uncovered 269 pages of records from the Secret Service confirming attacks on personnel by Biden's dogs.
Commander alone is blamed for 23 biting incidents, and legal experts have pointed out that had that dog been owned by someone else, they easily could have been found liable in civil court for damages from what amounts to a dangerous animal.
The Pundit reported, "After one incident, East Wing public tours were stopped for approximately 20 minutes due to the blood on the floor from the attack in the area of the 'Booksellers.'"
The Pundit reported Judicial Watch's source reported Biden mistreated his dogs, punching and kicking them.
WND previously has reported on the documentation of the dog attacks, and their subsequent removal from the White House.
A report at the time confirmed "biting incidents" actually "terrorized Secret Service agents" and others.
A report then "explained famed dog behaviorist Cesar Millan had offered to try to help, but sources confirmed the Bidens refused to engage in 'any problem-solving discussions to protect the agents and [executive residence] staff.'"
In one attack situation, Biden essentially called a Secret Service agent a liar after his report of the attack.
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Red flag laws have been flaring across America, as someone can complain he or she has a "fear" of someone else, and a judge without even contacting the target can order his or her guns confiscated.
Promoters claim it is a way to protect the public, but in reality, what it has done is forcibly disarm law-abiding citizens multiple times.
Those statutes so far have been based state by state, but Joe Biden, in his war on self-protection, now has launched a plan for a national "red flag center."
Which, two experts have argued, he didn't have the constitutional right to do.
It is John R. Lott Jr., chief of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who have written at the Federalist that Congress, controlled by Democrats at the time, provided authorization for the president to hand out grants to states with those red flag laws.
"But never was he authorized to establish a federal red flag center," they explained.
They note that Kamala Harras bragged about Biden's new "National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center."
She said the goal is to see to the "effective implementation of state red flag laws" and "keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others."
But Biden has "confused" "grants" for state programs with "an entirely new center."
The state programs already are raising questions, they note.
Under ordinary laws, they explain, "If you worry that someone is dangerous, you can tell the police your concerns. If the police agree that there is a 'reasonable' chance the person is a danger to themselves or others, mental health professionals will evaluate the individual. If the professionals give their consent, an emergency court hearing is held. A lawyer is provided to those who cannot afford one. Judges have recourse to various options, such as outpatient mental health care or driver’s license suspension. Gun confiscation or involuntary commitment may also be options, but only after going through the proper legal process."
Red flag laws bypass routine restraints, the charge.
There "a judge acts solely on the basis of a written complaint. He never talks to the person who made the complaint or the person against whom it was made. States vary on how quickly hearings must occur, but they all require that they take place within a month after one’s guns are taken away. But the steep cost of legal representation often deters defendants from seeking counsel, as lawyers can charge upwards of $10,000 for a hearing."
Only 29% of the public, they note from survey evidence, support such extremism.
They point out that suicides are not necessarily prevented, as there are methods not involving guns. And violence isn't always prevented as a criminal can drive a car into a crowd and injure.
And, they found, "Allowing for easy gun confiscation can leave good, law-abiding people defenseless. Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter in the 2017 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, recently had an Extreme Risk Protection Order used against him by a neighbor in rural Oregon. When Pollack finally had his hearing in court, the judge didn’t even need to hear a defense because there was no evidence that Pollack had threatened anyone. Unfortunately, while disarmed, he faced a mountain lion outside his home. His dog tangled with the mountain lion, requiring 50 stitches on his side. As is virtually always the case, there was no punishment for the neighbors bringing the false claim."
A report at Liberty Nation explained, "Considering the hostility with which government at all levels have often viewed the private ownership of firearms, such laws are, of course, ripe for potential abuse."
And the report noted Massie's reaction was blunt, on social media: "What the hell is this evil? A Federal Red Flag center? We did not authorize this."
The report charged, "The anti-gun lobby was likely hopeful that red flag laws would facilitate a sort of slow-moving gun-confiscation program, but media investigations have shown that such laws are, in fact, rarely used – hence the creation of this new resource center, one can assume. According to the Associated Press, only four ERPOs were enforced in Chicago between 2020 and 2022, while there were 8,500 shootings resulting in 1,800 deaths during the same period. Red flag laws were used eight times in New Mexico over the same two years – the state had 600 gun homicides. Massachusetts used red flag laws 12 times and had about 300 fatal shootings."
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A new poll reveals Joe Biden's pressure campaign on Israel – to give up on its pledge to destroy Hamas and make sure that terror threat does not reappear in the near future – is backfiring on Biden.
Israel has pursued, militarily, Hamas ever since last Oct. 7 when the terror group invaded Israel and killed some 1,200 civilians, often in brutal butchery that included beheading babies and burning whole families alive.
Biden, while originally pledging support for America's longtime Middle East ally, recently has been putting pressure on Israel to let the terrorism go.
The new polling by RMG Research, founded by Scott Rasmussen, was produced in partnership with Gideon300, a public affairs agency.
"This data reveals that voters are squarely opposed to any proposal that would force Israel to make a deal with terrorists, or those who support terror," said Matthew Faraci, president of Gideon300.
"At the beginning of this survey, a slim majority favored the U.S. brokering a deal involving the Palestinian Authority. However, after learning about the PA's alignment with Hamas, voters dramatically switched their opinion, and – in the end – a strong majority across all parties opposed such a deal. "
The polling revealed the biggest seismic shift was among Democrats. Their opinion changed a "stunning" 30 points.
Significant changes also registered among independents and Republicans.
"Elected representatives in both parties should look past the noise and pay close attention to data revealing where the public is on this issue," the poll report said.
The survey included 1,000 general election voters has an accuracy of +/- 3.1% at a 95% confidence interval.
It reports that initially, 55% of American voters favored encouraging Israel to reach a deal with the terrorists, including 27% who strongly favored it.
That, however, plunged when voters learned the Palestinian Authority wanted to form a unity government with the terrorists in Hamas, including giving cabinet positions to those terrorists.
At that point, only 10% strongly favored pressuring Israel to make a deal, and only 30% had any sort of favor for that idea.
It revealed that a majority now say the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are part of the same terror cartel, given the PA's expressed desire to include terrorists in a unity government.
The Democrats, exhibiting the biggest flip-flop went from 73% pushing Israel for a peace deal with the terrorists to 47%.
Support among independents dropped from 47% to 28% and among Republicans, the support dropped from 38% to 19%.
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Joe Biden took to a podium right away on Tuesday after word of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
There a critical support structure had been hit and knocked down by an out-of-control container ship.
And Biden told how he had commuted many times by car and train across that very bridge.
Except, according to a report in the Post Millennial, the bridge "did not have any rail lines."
It's just the latest in a long list of stories related by Biden that didn't happen because they couldn't have happened. Earlier tales include his interactions with an Amtrak conductor who was long gone before the "conversations" with Biden took place, as well as Biden's multiple "conversations" with foreign leaders who happened to have died years earlier.
The report noted Biden pledged to have the U.S. taxpayers rebuild the bridge for the harbor there.
And, "He claimed he had taken a commuter rail on the bridge 'many many times' even though it did not have any rail lines."
Biden told reporters he took the bridge 'many many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car,'" the report said.
He said, "It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort."
So far, the loss of the bridge appears to have been an accident.
"Maryland Governor Wes Moore as well as Biden have indicated that the incident was an accident. Prior to the crash, the crew had notified authorities with a mayday call and the power failed aboard the ship," the report said.
The ship, "Dali," was run by a Singaporean company Synergy Marine Group, and is owned by Grace Ocean Pte Ltd.