It’s a function of his punditry.
"I also thought many times to this problem and came to the conclusion that, not only but also for this reason, Europe must take as soon as possible a federal structure," the pope said, according to the Google translation of the La Repubblica article
Talking to a newsman, putting finger in yet another pie.
Illinois’ budget impasse is over, but financial challenges remain — even with new tax hike
No. ESPECIALLY with the new tax hike.
High marginal tax rates can discourage work, saving, investment, and innovation, while specific tax preferences can affect the allocation of economic resources. But tax cuts can also slow long-run economic growth by increasing deficits. The long-run effects of tax policies thus depend not only on their incentive effects but also their deficit effects.
And you did not read this in a daily newspaper or on network TV . . .
2017 version of "Mr. Gorbachev – tear down this wall."
Anthology of sock-’em bust-’em vs. Democrats of today . . .
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Consider this from a teacher at Fairfield U., a Jesuit institution:
Taking the thesis seriously, Sealey said, means “to acknowledge that any critical investigation of race should devote some time to the problem that is whiteness.”
She should look up Moby Dick and the pursuit of the white whale seen as dangerous.
It is little wonder that Ahab’s demonic pursuit of the White Whale has become an arch metaphor for our distrust of the other, from racial purity to global terrorism.
“Pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us like a leper,” as Melville concludes, “and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him. And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?”
I’d take a class that took a Melvillian approach. Otherwise, no.
Our great state — as state rep Camille Lilly (D.-Oak Park and a string of other towns and neighborhoods as designated by Democrat district-makers) repeatedly referred to it in voter meetings recounted in my Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters — faces a huge income tax increase.
The plan [just passed in both houses] is defined by a massive, 32 percent income tax hike on Illinois residents, who are now witnessing the nation’s worst income growth. If signed into law, the House plan will hike the state income tax rate to 4.95 percent from 3.75 percent, and the corporate income tax rate will rise to 7 percent from 5.25 percent.
My debt here (for the “squeezing” adaptation) is to the post-WW2 Great Britain diplomat as regards reparations to be demanded of Germany, which got its revenge 20 years later.
No revenge is likely from Illinois citizens, however, tax-paying or otherwise — especially the otherwise, who will suffer most as the economy craters.
Some good news on the smaller-government scene.
The Senate still hasn’t voted on ObamaCare reform, U.S. workers are still waiting for tax cuts to drive economic growth and President of the United States Donald Trump is trading insults with the co-hosts of an MSNBC talk show. Yet Mr. Trump appears to be making progress in what might have seemed the most difficult task given to him by voters in 2016: reducing the power of Washington’s permanent bureaucracy.
State Dept. especially, but also Employment Prevention Agency (heh) and Energy.
