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4) Quote of the Day - Why Raising Taxes Never Works

A great piece in the WSJ by former Reagan speechwriter Kenneth Khachigian reminds us of what happened when Reagan was snookered into raising taxes 40 years ago.


“In 1988 Reagan complained that the 1982 tax increase that he reluctantly embraced was among the worst decisions of his presidency.”


"The fellas promised I would get $3 of spending cuts for every $1 of taxes I agreed to. Instead, for every dollar of new taxes we got $1.70 in new spending - the complete reversal of what I was promised."

We would add that on several occasions when taxes were proposed to Reagan during his second term, he would fume: "I'm still waiting for those three dollars of spending cuts they promised me the last time we raised taxes." They never came.


Reagan learned his lesson the hard way.  Will President Trump and the current Republicans in Congress?

5) No Joke: The Climate Industrial Complex Is Getting Ideas from the Simpsons

The climate change apocolyptics are running out of ideas on how to save the planet.

Call it a Hail Mary pass by climate change fanatics.


So now, the greens in Britain are funding a slew of experiments ranging from injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to brightening clouds to reflect sunlight. So Britain now wants to dim the sun at the same time it spends billions to cover its land with solar panels to collect it. Where did this idea come from? The TV show the Simpsons.

6) Beauty Is Nothing Without Brains

This Mercedes ad is the funniest of the year.

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