George Rebane
The specter of California’s AB5, and raising the state’s minimum wage to $20/hr, are again and predictably wreaking more havoc in our small business community and providing another shot in the shorts for consumers. A shot close to home arrived yesterday in a letter from our beloved Union. On 2 April next, the newspaper will cease morning delivery of its pulp edition and start using snail mail instead. Why? Because AB5 and $20/hr will “restructure our ability to use carriers to deliver the newspaper.” Note the compliant and uncomplaining manner in which this latest action of California’s butt-stupid government is described by a compliant and well-behaved leftwing business.
‘The rate of inflation is decreasing’ is today’s celebratory trumpet from the Biden campaign. The message is perfectly designed to keep the nation’s marginally informed in perpetual ignorance about the impact of Bidenomics. What these folks totally miss is that Biden’s inflation has already increased the prices that we pay every day, and these are not going down. Slowly decreasing inflation will not fix another full-fledged feature of Bumblebrain’s economy – that wages have not kept pace with the baked-in inflation, and the buying power of all Americans has gone down under this administration, that in total contrast to what they did under Trump’s stewardship. This adds to the Democrats’ lies that Trump’s reduction of regulations and taxes only benefitted ‘the rich’. Exactly opposite of what government data shows happened – businesses prospered, middle and low income taxes were reduced, upper income people continued to pay more, and government revenues increased. (Can everyone spell ‘Laffer’?) And then came Biden.
[7mar24 update] ‘Why Black Voters are Ditching Democrats’ Had lunch with a liberal friend who unsurprisingly was not aware that not only blacks but also other non-white voters – Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, etc – are realizing that life has been bad under Democrats, and has gotten worse under Joe Biden. Basketball great Charles Barkley explains the matter to those who will listen (here).
[8mar24 update] Re last night’s SOTU – the corrupt sumbich just can’t stop lying every time he opens his mouth. Check out ‘Fact-Checking Biden’s State of the Union Address’.
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