With the midterms in the national rear-view mirror, the Democratic/Socialist/Marxist/Communist winners are giving the country a preview of their real agenda. Surprise! It’s not about addressing affordability, but it is all about revenge. They have reemphasized their “Lawyer up!” warning to anyone who has or had a position in the Trump Administration.
Like a bunch of out-of-town rubes suckered into a street-corner game of three-card monte, the folks who voted for this bunch have been deceived. They let the shills in the legacy media fool them into betting on economic change, when the actuality was that the Dems and their pals had no plan or any earthly idea how to address affordability. What they do have is a plan to subpoena, investigate, and attempt to prosecute all things Trump. Their plan also includes impeachment of all his cabinet officials.
Throughout America, the folks are getting a future that wasn’t what they voted for. In California, the new governor, Xavier Beccera, has indicated that a tax for drivers based on the number of miles they travel in their vehicle is a strong possibility. Strangely, the X man never said that when he was campaigning from his backyard. He is also proposing new taxes on corporations…there’s an incentive for them to keep their businesses in the state. Not!
In New York, reelected governor Kathy Hochul has announced that her pledge of no new taxes may need reexamination. The left-leaning lawmakers and allies of Mayor Mamdani continue to push for higher taxes on corporations and high earners (such as raising the corporate tax rate) to fund extensive programs like universal childcare. Everyone with a political IQ higher than a boxcar knows she owes her reelection to the support of Mamdani and his fellow socialists. She’s a tool.
Every state that has a new Democratic majority is dealing with a bunch of lying pols who have hornswoggled the folks. There is no real intention to work on making their lives less expensive. Like California and New York, these states under their stewardship prove beyond a doubt that higher taxes don’t translate into a lower cost of living.
The American people want to focus on economics, not on making life more expensive through direct and indirect taxes; that was a lesson of the election. They want elected officials to work on getting prices down and wages up. If Democrat elected officials continue to go down the road of recriminations in Washington—telling the Republicans “you're immoral, you're doing illegal things”—they’ve forgotten that the public is sick of this petty school-yard behavior. No one voted for a revenge sh*t show.
Nevertheless, senior Democrats are pursuing traditional and novel tax hikes on high-income households. Ideas proposed by lawmakers include graduated surtaxes on incomes exceeding $1 million (ranging from 5% to 12% extra on top of existing marginal rates). That will drive money out of the United States to safe overseas tax havens.
Additionally, proposals for raising the corporate tax rate, tightening international tax rules, and rolling back specific bonus depreciation rules for tech and artificial intelligence data centers are on the table. These policies create a “trickle-down” effect that will eventually find its way to consumers. Corporations are not going to take a hit to their profits without passing that pain along.
Politics has left the country more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Last week’s election centered on Donald Trump. Without his confrontation with Iran, Republicans would have cruised through. Yet Trump inspires intense hostility—exceeding even that faced by Abraham Lincoln.
That hostility now frames the next round of political battles over the White House. Democrats and the legacy media are pushing three stories to damage the White House: the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the Epstein conspiracy, and alleged corruption within the First Family.
According to incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia (D-CA) “everything and everyone is subject to scrutiny”. Well Bob, that scrutiny will certainly have a massive effect on the price of gas and groceries. The Nation is thankful that this little twerp has come up with a solid solution to the “affordability” problem facing the American consumer. Right?!
Frankly, if anyone saw that these “Coming Attractions” were going to become reality, the vote would have been decidedly different…
No one wants to see a remake of a movie they didn’t like the first time.