News The Major Media Didn’t Report – Briefly … (Sep. 6)
RFK Jr. ordered off Michigan Ballot by state appeals court
A Michigan appeals court has thwarted the state’s Democrats’ attempt to dilute the vote for former President Donald Trump by siding with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request to have his name removed from the general election ballot, with the secretary of state’s office planning to appeal the decision to a higher court. -The Epoch Times
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Arkansas reduces the income tax
Of all the possible forms a tax can take, an income tax is one of the worst. The income tax is a tax on productivity. The income tax is the government telling people “If you work harder, I will take more of your money.” It is not a good thing. There are many alternatives to an income tax. The government could replace it with a value-added tax on sold goods, or maybe even tariffs. Economists debate often about the best course of action.
One reliable option is to simply reduce government spending. Income taxes should go down, and there is no excuse. Lower income taxes also drive economic growth, which is why Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders decided to take the hammer to the state income tax in June.
George Behizy posted on X that “Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a law drastically reducing property & income taxes, and plans to get rid of the income tax altogether soon.”
He continues to state “This is her third tax cut as governor and has done so without cutting any agencies, foolproof that government is forced to be efficient the less money it collects to spend. Specifically, the law will reduce the state’s top income tax rate from 4.4 percent to 3.9 percent and the top corporate rate from 4.8 percent to 4.3 percent.”
The people of Arkansas should rejoice. They will get to keep more of the money that they made going forward. The state will also get wealthier. Lower corporate taxes will allow more business to develop across the state. Behizy concludes: “This is what red states need to be doing. There are no good excuses why states like Arkansas can’t be attractions for the biggest businesses in the world. The best way to bring wealth to an area is to make the government broke and efficient.” – Ed Martin, Phillis Schlafly Report
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Democrats’ green agenda could gift Midwest to Trump
The Midwest will decide who wins the White House in November. Much has been written about Kamala Harris’s not-so-subtle appeal to Michigan’s Muslim voters, and her choice of Tim Walz as running mate rounds the ticket out with a Minnesota governor who once praised an extremist Muslim cleric as a “master teacher.”
But away from the cheap tactics of identity politics. Harris and Walz may have more trouble convincing the region of their environmental and industrial policies. Over the last few months, the drive towards an all-electric auto industry has crashed against technological and economic realities. Electric vehicle mandates, demanding that EVs constitute roughly 70% of all car sales by 2032 (only 7% today) are extremely ambitious. Harris has been doggedly in favor of these mandates. But now companies such as Ford, Stellantis, and Volkswagen have begun to lay off workers or delay new plants due to a weak market. Ford already cancelled plans to build an all-electric SUV, while Volkswagen decided not to expand six battery plants in North America and Europe.
In the Midwest, voters are worried about the economy, taxes, and immigration—not gestural identity or environmental politics. Readjusted job numbers going down by one million should be a warning to Democrats. Failure to heed that warning through a continued infatuation with EVs is only more likely to push Midwesterners into Trump’s arms. -Joel Kotkin, UnHerd
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Key vote: Defining Male and Female Act
Until recently, no precise legal definition of sex—and especially the terms “male” and “female”—was needed because no one contested the inherent differences between men and women. Unfortunately, because of gender ideology’s growing influence on our laws and institutions, Congress no longer has this luxury.
Thankfully, Representative Mary Miller (R-Ill.) has taken the initiative and introduced the Defining Male and Female Act (H.R. 9218) which will protect women and children by enshrining scientific and legally sound definitions of male and female in federal law. This bill would permanently reverse the Biden-Harris Title IX rewrite and prevent future agencies and administrations from redefining “sex” as a pliable legal category. The Heritage Foundation
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Venezuelan illegals seize apartment blocks; mayor blames feds
Mike Coffman, the mayor of Aurora, Colorado, has spoken out after video footage published online showed Venezuelan gangs taking control of various apartment complexes across the city. Coffman told Fox News on Aug. 29 that approximately three apartment buildings in the Denver suburb have fallen victim to the gangs. He noted that the buildings are also home to a high “concentration” of Venezuelan illegal immigrants. “It is my understanding that Venezuela does not share criminal histories with the United States, so it’s very difficult to vet them at the border—yet they’ve been allowed to come in anyway.”
The mayor added that the city of Aurora took a position early on that it was “not going to participate in the migrant crisis” and was “not going to provide taxpayer support.
“This is a problem created by the federal government at the border with bad policy,” referring to the Biden-Harris administration’s management border—or lack thereof—of the U.S. southern, notably overseen by the Biden-appointed “Border Czar,” Kamala Harris. -NTD
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Nebraska Governor bans agencies from procuring lab-grown meat
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican, signed an executive order on Thursday barring state agencies from procuring lab-grown meat—or meat products that are developed from animal cells, saying they aim to protect the state’s agriculture industry and consumers from lab-grown meat.
“We feed the world and we save the planet more effectively and more efficiently than anybody else and I will defend those practices,” Pillen said in a press release. The governor also announced that he would work on drafting legislation to ban lab-grown meat in Nebraska during the upcoming legislative session.
“Nebraska consumers want…and deserve to know that they are purchasing is safe, wholesome meat—and not a lab grown product,” Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) director Sherry Vinton stated.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in May a bill that prohibits the misbranding of certain food products, including lab-grown meat. Florida and Alabama have outright banned the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat products. -The Epoch Times
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The Squad’s dismantling
Democratic Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman of New York are two of the Democratic Party’s most radically left members. Both progressives suffered primary defeats to more moderate opponents in 2024. Bush fell in early August, losing her race to St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell in Missouri’s 1st Congressional district.
“I just think people are tired of it,” said Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “They’re just tired of anything that smacks of this idea that everything has to be viewed through some racial or group identity.”
“They’re tired of DEI. They’re tired of the campus protests. They’re tired of our cities being burned down by Antifa every summer. They’re tired of Jewish students on our college campuses being prevented from going to their classes by campus racists,” said Gregg Keller, a Republican political consultant and founder of the Atlas Strategy Group.