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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/27/virginia-legalizes-marijuana-471840
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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Sunday, February 21, 2021
"No Glory For Hate" Act - Thoughts a possible agenda
AOC called for blacklisting of Trump supporters and associates, and the media has proven this to be true, including demonitizing Larry Elder on YouTube, Fox canceling Lou Dobbs, and others.
Following the acquittal of Trump during the attempted second impeachment, they are now proposing a bill that anyone impeached twice cannot be memorialized.
Pursuing litigation against Trump and establishing a legal precedent in writing sets up a likely potential to persecute and blacklist voters by association.
Is anyone litigating BLM for the riots? Just the George Floyd riots alone cost around 2B, not to mention the many, many other riots. Or a better question might be whether anyone is even investigating?
Will be watching to see what happens:
Bill proposing anyone impeached twice cannot be memorialized
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/484/text?r=12&s=1
AOC calls for blacklisting of Trump supporters and associates
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson for President
https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2021/02/16/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-running-for-president.html
Dwayne has been at this for a while. After seeing his "Where are you?" speech on youtube, I was certain he'd go on to greatness as President of the United States, employing his dramatic gifts to convince everyone that whatever is happening to them, as decided by whoever is behind the curtain, is for the greater good. President Dwayne.
Or, he could make wacky life insurance commercials.
One way or another, we'll probably see Idiocracy come to fruition in our lifetime without undergoing cryogenic sleep.
My measure of a good president is how well they wield the Voice of God.
When W was in office, I would listen to his oratory style and imagine him standing in line at McDonalds ordering 'an hamburger' with that epic dramatic cadence. With pickles. Ketchup n mustard. No onions.
At that time, everyone on the news insisted on saying 'an historic...', so W took the brunt of my scorn.
Fast forward to Dwayne, with his 'Where are you?' delivery - I can't wait to hear him order 'a hamburger'. See? NOT a dumbass, like stupid George W. Thank Almighty God for Barack's talent for reading a teleprompter and restoring the dignity of the Highest Office in the Land.
Although by then Dwayne will be preaching for that burger to a chatbot which will then translate the order in Spanish. I'm pretty sure the crew will still get the chills.
Dwayne's "Smackdown your vote" was a great way to ensure that those with the least political awareness do what they're told because bullies are bad, and puppies are cute. Vote for Dwayne.
That's why Pelosi wants to lower the voting age to 16. At 16, I was adamant about seeing boobies, and all of my friends were totally on board. Teen suffrage might have diverted the Gulf War. War in the Middle East? Nah, boobies. Boobies, not war. And I still feel the same way. Visionary.
There was a time that those who became President of the United States studied law. But nowadays, they need to devise a signature move. Dwayne's is the "Rock Bottom", which sounds about right, but his "People's Elbow" will win the day.
If we can have Dwayne for President, Japan should build Mechagodzilla. Especially if Dwayne takes on Oprah as his running mate.
Other candidates who may join in as Democrats in '24 - I'll be updating this list here:
I fully expect Oprah and possibly Tom Hanks, of course Michelle Obama is likely.
More horse shit from Dwayne
The spin of this article really spells out the strategy and sales pitch. In this interview, they ask why he sounds so genuine, which is in stark contrast to the entire point I'm making about Dwayne's shitty acting job on 'Where are you?".
Me: Dwayne, why do you sound so phony...I mean...genuine?
Dwayne: Ummm, because here's some horse shit answer that dovetails off of the Orange Man Bad platform, with a cunning 'be nice' strategy that promises to unify everyone and underscores why the left has chosen a wrestler to mimic the appeal of Trump as an 'outsider' and 'centrist'. Look! I have daughters! Awwwwwwww.
In other words, whoever pays the most for his bad acting.
From the article:
In explaining why he voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, while still extending an olive branch to those who supported Trump, Johnson demonstrated why his voice comes across as genuine, why he could speak to millions of his fellow citizens.
“My vote represented my little girls,” he said. “It also represented humanity, decency, principles and values @laurenhashianofficial [his wife] and I instill in our little daughters. And finally, my vote represented the importance of just being a decent human being. And to me, a decent human being matters. This win feels so good, but now the real work begins because we have an entire country divided. I’m not turning my back on you just because we have a difference of opinion. I’m not made that way. I’m still right here, and when the sun comes up, we all get up with it, go to work, feed our families and pay our bills.”
Last September, in announcing he would vote for the Democratic ticket, Johnson emphasized, “As a political independent & centrist, I’ve voted for both parties in the past.”
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Universal Income for Kids
https://www.wsj.com/articles/universal-basic-income-could-be-coming-for-kids-11613574528
Universal Basic Income Could Be Coming for Kids
Tax-credit proposals would send almost every parent $250 or more a month
Proposals to change the child tax credit seek to reduce child poverty, which is higher in the U.S. than in most advanced countries.
PHOTO: CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Entrepreneurs, intellectuals and presidential candidates have in recent years touted “universal basic income,” a cash stipend to everyone with no strings attached, as the answer to poverty, automation and the drudgery of work. It has never gotten off the ground in the U.S.
Instead, something similar in spirit but cheaper and more practical may be in sight. Both President Biden and Sen. Mitt Romney (R., Utah) have proposed significantly expanding the child tax credit and dropping many of its restrictions, in effect turning it into a near-universal basic income for children.
The main aim of their proposals is to reduce child poverty, which is higher in the U.S. than in most advanced countries. Both would slash the number of children in poverty by around 3 million, or a third, according to the Niskanen Center, a center-right think tank.
In the process, it may also become the only major benefit in the U.S. that achieves near universality—testing traditional American notions of the safety net. “It would be a huge change in how we think about delivering benefits,” said Elaine Maag, principal research associate at the Urban Institute.
Federal benefits usually require the recipient to meet some criterion of need: poor (for food stamps, welfare and Medicaid), unemployed (for unemployment insurance), working or looking for work (the earned-income tax credit and some programs with work requirements), or disabled (Social Security Disability Insurance). Only Social Security and Medicare approach universality: Almost all elderly are eligible.
While some 90% of households with children qualify for the current child tax credit, many don’t get the full $2,000 because they don’t owe enough tax. At most, they can receive back $1,400 more (the refundable portion) than they owe.
Mr. Biden’s plan, as detailed in legislative language unveiled by House Democrats last week, would boost the credit to $3,600 for a child under 6 and $3,000 for a child aged 6 to 17 and make it fully refundable, meaning even a parent with no income would receive the full amount. The boost would start to phase out for individuals earning $75,000 a year and couples earning $150,000. The remainder would phase out starting at incomes of $200,000 a year for individuals and $400,000 for married couples, as it does under current law.
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Mr. Romney would raise the credit for children under 6 even more, to $4,200. He would match Mr. Biden’s $3,000 for older children and start phasing out the full amount at $200,000 a year for individuals and $400,000 for couples. He would also replace the current earned-income tax credit, which is more generous for people with children, to a standard amount per family.
The upshot is that under Mr. Biden’s plan, families with two children would typically receive $6,000 to $7,200. Under Mr. Romney’s plan—$6,000 to $8,400. That’s less than the $12,000 per adult in universal basic income proposed by Andrew Yang, former Democratic candidate for president and now candidate for mayor of New York City. But it’s a lot of money to a lot of parents, regardless of whether they work and (almost) regardless of how much they earn.
Almost as important is how the plans are administered: Both Mr. Biden’s and Mr. Romney’s proposals would pay the credit each month, instead of once a year when the recipient files his or her taxes. Mr. Romney goes further by entrusting the job to the Social Security Administration, which already sends monthly checks to Social Security beneficiaries. Mr. Biden would leave it to the Internal Revenue Service.
Ms. Maag said the IRS is better positioned to administer the plan right away; it already delivers some kind of benefit to 95% of families with children and has shown it can quickly send out checks as it did with last year’s pandemic-relief legislation.
But Melissa Kearney, an economist at the University of Maryland, thinks calling the benefit an allowance and administering it through Social Security would underline that this isn’t just another provision of the tax code. While academics consider a tax credit and an allowance “mathematically equivalent, in practice, they are not,” she said. Just as Social Security represents a commitment to end elderly poverty, a child allowance would do the same for child poverty, she said. “We should set our priorities as a nation and then commit to spending on them.”
Universal basic income for kids costs a lot less than UBI for everyone. Ms. Kearney has estimated UBI for adults, depending on the design, would cost $1 trillion to $2.5 trillion a year. By contrast, Mr. Romney’s plan would add $66 billion to current costs, which he would finance by ending several tax provisions and federal welfare block grants. Mr. Biden’s would cost $105 billion. He has yet to identify a permanent funding source.
UBI could discourage a lot of able-bodied adults from working, although experimental evidence is inconclusive. By contrast, the National Academy of Sciences estimates a $3,000 annual child allowance would reduce employment by only about 100,000 workers (compare that to the 1.4 million jobs a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage would cost, according to the Congressional Budget Office). Moreover, those who work less are probably spending more time raising their children, a trade-off most Americans can relate to.
UBI for kids is also easier to sell politically. Many liberals like that most of UBI for kids goes to those on lower incomes without robbing other parts of the safety net. Some conservatives like that it’s pro-family. The two may be enough to make it happen.
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