Friday, January 17, 2020

SERVANTS OF THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS MOVE TO CRUSH SMALL BUSINESS

Democrats move to crush small business




Democrats may be obsessed with impeachment, but they’re still finding time to advance a left-wing agenda. And that should terrify all Americans.
At its core, the Democratic Party remains the party of high taxes and burdensome regulations, and one deeply critical of America’s free-market economy. Our economy is not only the most powerful in the history of the world, but it is also reaching new heights under President Trump. The unemployment rate remains below four percent, while consumer spending is near an all-time high.
When even Vox calls the economy “strong,” you know there isn’t much to complain about.
And yet the Democratic platform would only weaken it, punishing employers and employees while ballooning the size of government.
Rep. John Larson (D-CT) recently introduced the Secure 2100 Act, which would subject all income above $250,000 to the Social Security payroll tax. In practice, this would amount to a $19 trillion tax hike, particularly detrimental to small business owners and those who depend on them. (Even Larson admits that many taxpayers would “pay more.”)
At least he’s honest. Larson’s plan would exponentially increase the tax burden on self-employed Americans -- from restaurant owners and daycare providers to farmers and real estate agents. Small business owners like these don’t split their Social Security tax liability with a traditional employer, making any tax increase disproportionately more detrimental.
aren’t just coming for “millionaires and billionaires.” Real estate agents, for example, would be especially impacted by Larson’s proposal. And the average realtor doesn’t make anywhere close $1 million per year. Trust me: It’s closer to $60,000.
Of course, Larson isn’t alone. On the campaign trail, former Vice President Joe Biden has proposed a $3.2 trillion tax hike, including a higher corporate tax rate and a minimum tax on company’s  pre-tax income. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have proposed even more significant tax increases -- from a “wealth tax” to additional business fees.
This simply isn’t the blueprint for economic prosperity. Nor was it the recipe for the booming economy we see today.
Under President Trump, economic growth has been unleashed because the federal government is taking on a lesser role, not a greater one. Tax reform, for example, saved a typical middle-class family over $2,000 per year. Those families now have more resources to spend, save, and invest.
President Trump knows that ours is a small business economy, driven by millions of small business owners who employ millions more. America is home to over 30 million small businesses, employing nearly 60 million workers -- half of the private-sector workforce. Over 280,000 of those small businesses are exporters, contributing to the local, national, and global economy.
As a longtime small business owner, I’ve seen that positive impact on a very personal basis. What we don’t need is a $19 trillion tax hike, taking money away from private investment and sending it to Uncle Sam. That’s not the American economy that creates about 300,000 jobs in any given month.
Impeachment is troubling enough. By obsessing over foreign scandals and faux-scandals, anti-Trump Democrats threaten to undermine the trust in our political system and the sky-high consumer confidence powering our economy. When they turn on the news, Americans need to see a reason to go shopping or to invest in real estate, not fear, skepticism, or petty politics. A partisan, polarizing impeachment process sends the wrong signal.
And, unfortunately, so does the Democratic platform. Tax hikes and regulatory crusades send the signal that government is the solution to our problems, rather than the cause of them.
Even when impeachment takes the oxygen out of the room, ignore liberal policies at your own peril. They are coming for you too. No one is safe -- starting with small business owners and the people they employ.
Joseph Semprevivo is the president and CEO of Joseph’s Sugar Free Syrup. He is an adjunct professor of finance, business, real estate and insurance at Indian River State College and the author of the best-selling book, Madness, Miracles, Millions.



Fake vs. real history

Fake history is a lot like fake news -- left-leaning propaganda devoid of truth and substance. Wednesday’s impeachment display was truly one for the fake history books. Defying the narrative of a somber undertaking, cheery pink suit and all, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi barely suppressed, along with her colleagues, a demeanor of self-satisfaction and sheer delight worthy of the Academy Award. Of course, instead of the Oscar, there was the “Nancy,” a gold pen emblazoned with her name, given to the greatest political performers who act as if they have the best interests of the United States at heart. Her remarks compared the false, underhanded impeachment proceedings to notable and historic events of our nation’s past. Her zany ramblings belied the fact that this impeachment is not a result of an actual crime, but is in truth a nasty bipartisan assault on a political rival and our constitution. Pelosi and the left push their fake history and equate their dirty dealings with heavy weighted historical occurrences of days gone by.
Ironically, just as the deep state leaders were busy impersonating the patriots and deep thinkers of our past, true history was made with a momentous trade deal, which among other things, increases sales of U.S. goods and services to China, of all places. Then, just one day later, to the continued amazement and delight of investors, the U.S. stock market hit an all-time high of 29,000. The fact of the matter is that progress of historical proportions is and has been made by the businessman and master dealmaker from Queens, who won the presidential election in 2016. Unbelievably, he has completed these successes with more pushback and obstruction by the opposing party than any other leader in history.
The falsely proclaimed historical importance of the Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump is fake history and no phony pomp and circumstance can change that. What is real are Donald Trump’s accomplishments in making America great again. 


THERE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH "CHEAP" LABOR MEXCIANS IN OUR OPEN BORDERS TO SATISFY THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY

ILLEGALS & WELFARE

WE CAN’T TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN, AND YET WE LET MEXICO BUILD THEIR BILLION DOLLAR WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS!!!

70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
 “According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”

So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
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$400 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

THE DISUNITED STATES: The world’s welfare office!


America is a nation with a severe housing crisis, a million legals who are homeless, tens of millions of legals who have given up finding a job that pays living wages and yet the borders are wide open to keep the hordes coming simply to keep wages DEPRESSED.

 

THE SLOW DEATH OF PELOSI’S STATE of CALIFORNIA, A WELFARE STATE AND COLONY OF MEXICO
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness, sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in the country and its “worst state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade, California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY
AMERICA: THE WORLD’S WELFARE OFFICE
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness, sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in the country and its “worst state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for more than a decade, California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive government is devolving into a third-world country. JANET LEVY

"This is how they will destroy America from within.  The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants.  They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers.  These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
"Most Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein
 WE SAT AND WATCHED WHILE THEY DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY! 
We are now in the process of destabilizing our own country. FROSTY WOOLDRIGE

Welfare for Refugees Cost Americans $123 Billion in 10 Years ….YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/frosty-wooldridge-let-us-open-us.html

 

 

THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY

The Democrat Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html

 


Demonstrably and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG

Washington, D.C., political establishment blocks minimum wage increase for city’s tipped workers
The Washington Post published an article last week which further exposes the fraudulent character of the Democratic Party’s supposed concern for the interests of working people.
The article, titled “D.C. officials passed a law to help tipped workers after repealing a wage increase. It was never funded,” notes that “[m]ore than a year after D.C. lawmakers overturned a voter-approved initiative to raise the wages of tipped workers, city officials have yet to implement measures to improve working conditions for food servers and bartenders.”
In October 2018 the Democratic Party-controlled Council of the District of Columbia, the legislative body of the United States’ capital city, repealed a voter-approved ballot item, Initiative 77, which would have eliminated the minimum-wage exemption businesses use to heavily exploit tipped workers—ranging from waitresses and waiters, bartenders, parking attendants, and nail salon workers, to name a few.
The initiative was ratified by voters in June 2018 by over a 10-point margin despite heavy opposition from Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and the council. In a brazen act of subservience to the restaurant and tourist industry, the legislature overturned the public’s vote, replacing it with a toothless bill titled “Tipped Wage Workers Fairness Amendment Act of 2018.”
“If the law is a bad law, it should be amended or repealed. It does not matter if the law was adopted by the council, the voters or Congress,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson declared at the time. A subsequent effort to amend the initiative by exempting bartenders and other workers who expressed concern that raising their wages would decrease tips was likewise shot down by the legislature’s majority.
The new bill, which did nothing to raise wages for tipped workers who can make as low as $3.89 per hour plus gratuity in a city where the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment is an outrageous $3,100 a month, was supposed to create a Tipped Worker Coordinating Council, along with a hotline for workers to report wage theft and sexual harassment along with minimum-wage law training for restaurant managers. The city, moreover, said it would set aside $700,000 for a website informing workers about their labor rights and an additional $100,000 for a public awareness campaign.
However, even this pitiful consolation proved to be too much for the city’s government. Fully in the pocket of big business, Mayor Bowser and Chairman Mendelson, who draws a yearly salary of $210,000 for his work on the council, never included the $2.6 million in the city’s latest budget necessary to enforce these cosmetic initiatives.
The callous behavior of the city’s lawmakers provoked denunciation even from supporters. “It’s egregious because they overturned a vote and they claimed they were going to do all this stuff to get at the issues people cared about and never did. It tells voters they don’t matter, they don’t count,” Reverend Grayland Hagler told the Post.
Mendelson placed the blame on the public for his legislature’s blatant disregard for low wage workers, citing the group responsible for placing Initiative 77 on the ballot, Restaurant Opportunities Center D.C., for failing to “lobby us as far as I know.”
ThinkProgress and Public Citizen analyzed the past two District election cycles starting in 2018 and discovered that restaurant industry lobbyists contributed more than $236,000 to the campaigns of Mayor Bowser as well as multiple council members. Over half went to three people: Bowser, Mendelson, and former Democratic mayor and current member of the council, Vincent Gray, all of whom opposed the ballot.
On Wednesday, Bowser denounced the District legislature after an ethics probe of long-serving Democratic councilman Jack Evans revealed numerous conflicts of interest, forcing the latter to announce his resignation. After admitting Evans made “some very significant mistakes,” Bowser, referring to the few council members who had expressed support for the wage bill, lamented the existence of “enemies of economic development on the council, and that concerns me.”
Restaurant and other tipped workers comprise one of the most exploited sections of the working class. If the total earnings of a worker fall short of city’s current poverty-level minimum wage of $14, employers are, according to law, supposed to make up the difference. Under such conditions, a worker earning the minimum wage working full-time would earn less than $30,000 a year.
The overturned Initiative 77, though slightly increasing the wages of workers, would have done nothing to decrease poverty and low wages in the nation’s capital. As with many cities across the country that have instituted minimum wage increases, Initiative 77 would not have allowed tipped workers to make the minimum wage until 2026; by then, inflation would have eaten up most of the increase in wages.
According to SmartAsset, in 2019, the average amount of rent paid annually for a two-bedroom apartment in the nation’s capital is an outrageous $37,200 a year, making D.C. the third most expensive city in the US. The average rent accounts for nearly half of the median household income which is $82,000 a year. As of 2018, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness reported there were 6,904 individuals living homeless in the District of Columbia. According to the U.S. Census, over 111,000 people, or 17.4 percent of the city’s population, live in poverty.



THE DEMOCRAT AMNESTY IS NON-ENFORCEMENT OR DISMANTLING OUR BORDERS INCH BY ILLEGAL

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS THE PARTY OF OPEN BORDERS, CHEAP LABOR, WELFARE FOR ILLEGAL AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!



Democrat Attorneys General Demand Fast-Track Work Permits for Illegals and Migrants

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Twenty-one top Democrat state officials are trying to block a White House reform that would protect Americans’ jobs and wages from hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants and economic migrants who try to get U.S. jobs.
“That’s bad for immigrants,” said a tweet from New Jersey’s Democrat attorney general, Gurbir Grewal. Agency officials “want to delay & deny work permits for asylum seekers.”
“This proposal is cruel and legally questionable at best,” said California’s Democrat attorney general, Xavier Becerra. Migrants “who do not enter the country through a port of entry or have resided in the United States for more than a year would now be summarily denied access to a work permit,” he said.
The draft proposal would end the long-standing agency practice of quickly giving one-year work permits to migrants who ask for asylum, and also illegal immigrants who ask for green cards. For example, it would withhold work permits from Central American asylum seekers for more than a year after they present themselves at a U.S. border post, and it would end the policy of providing temporary work permits to long-term illegals. The rule would also deny work permits to migrants who apply for asylum after sneaking into the United States.
The lax work permit policies were pushed by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The policies have provided millions of work permits to migrants. That huge supply of imported labor boosts investors and companies by undercutting blue-collar and white-collar wages, and it encourages more illegal migration.
The scale of this work permit economy is sketched by the Department of Homeland Security. A January 14 chart shows that at least 1,726,688 got work permits in 2019, alongside the roughly four million Americans who turned 18 during the year.
The federal government “estimates that 305,000 asylum seekers will be affected by the Proposed Rule in the first year alone, with just under 300,000 affected in subsequent years,” according to the complaint by the 21 attorneys general.
“This important new regulatory initiative has had far less media coverage than it merits,” said Dale Wilcox, general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI).
“The new regulation is complex but cohesive in its three-part strategy to deter aliens from filing fraudulent or otherwise defective asylum claims,” said a January 14 statement from the IRLI:
Aliens who illegally cross the border instead of applying for asylum at a port of entry will be ineligible to work until they are actually granted asylum. All applicants must appear at USCIS offices to provide fingerprints, photos, and other biodata before becoming eligible to apply for work permission. IRLI agrees with the government that this will greatly improve screening for ineligible criminal aliens, a major problem in this area.
Longstanding federal statutes bar asylum applications filed more than a year after arrival, and sanction applications that are “frivolous.” The new reforms restrict or eliminate more than a dozen loopholes in the regulations implementing these statutes. These loopholes have been used by immigration lawyers and anti-borders activists to make incomplete and often dishonest applications, many thousands of which are received eight or even ten years after the aliens first illegally crossed our borders.
“The [courtroom] backlogs in adjudicating all these [asylum] claims result in almost automatic employment authorization, which depresses the wages of American workers and is a magnet for further illegal entry,” said the IRLI statement. “We applaud the administration for taking this important step to protect American workers and gain control of the border.”


A Rasmussen survey shows likely voters by 2:1 want Congress to make companies hire & train US grads & workers instead of importing more foreign workers.
The survey also shows this $/class-based view co-exists w/ much sympathy for illegal migrants. #S386http://bit.ly/2ZA6WIE 

Rasmussen Shows 2:1 Opposition to Cheap Labor Legal Immigration




The Democrat attorneys general submitted their objections during the comment period on draft regulations.
The regulation contradicts the pro-migration “Nation of Immigrants” narrative, say the Democrats:
We, the undersigned Attorneys General of New Jersey, California, the District of Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington (“The States”), write …
An animating value of the United States is embodied in the now-famous lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” The United States has committed itself to providing asylum seekers a haven from persecution, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. Indeed, in establishing the framework for today’s asylum system in the Refugee Act of 1980, Congress made clear it was codifying “one of the oldest themes in America’s history—welcoming homeless refugees to our shores.”
The regulation will deter further migration into U.S. jobs, disadvantaging employers and state governments, the Democrats complain:
By barring many applicants from EADs completely and indefinitely delaying others’ EADs, the Proposed Rule imposes economic hurdles that will harm both asylum seekers and States and serve as a deterrent to seeking asylum in the first instance. Limiting EAD access will push asylum seekers into the underground economy, impede their ability to take care of themselves and their families, and harm their health and wellbeing. The States, too, will feel these consequences. The States, for their part, welcome thousands of asylum seekers each year who contribute greatly to their communities and economies.1 The Proposed Rule will lower tax and spending revenue in the States and harm businesses within the States that will have to find replacements and alternative labor. It will also increase reliance on state-funded programs, and hinder the States’ ability to enforce their own labor and civil rights laws.
The Proposed Rule will make it much more difficult, if not impossible, for many to legally work, costing the States millions of dollars in lost tax revenue and diminished economic growth. Second, the resulting delays and denials of work authorization will lead to increased healthcare costs shouldered by the States. Third, the Proposed Rule will burden the States’ other social service providers, including state funded non-profit service providers. Fourth, and finally, the Proposed Rule will make it more difficult for the States to enforce their own laws, particularly those designed to protect workers from unfair and abusive conditions of employment.
Although unauthorized workers pay taxes, tax revenue increases when immigrants can legally work, and the States could stand to lose substantial revenue if the Proposed Rule is implemented. Currently, undocumented immigrants residing in the States pay approximately $7.4 billion in state and local taxes annually. This would increase by approximately $1.4 billion if undocumented immigrants were given legal status.
The Democrats complain the regulation will make it difficult for migrants to hire the lawyers needed to win asylum:
Under the Department’s restrictive approach to work authorization, fewer asylum seekers will have the resources to hire legal counsel to navigate them through the complex and evolving immigration bureaucracy.4 That matters a great deal. In 2017, 90 percent of those without legal representation were denied asylum in immigration court while only 54 percent of those with legal representation were denied.
The regulation will impact many migrants, the state attorneys general write:
USCIS asylum offices within the States are considering 40 percent of the 327,984 pending affirmative asylum applications. Based on calculations involving the most recent available data, these offices receive an average of approximately 45,615 asylum applications per year. The States also hosted over 10,000 or 80 percent of the 13,248 total immigration court grants of asylum in 2018.
The rule will hurt the businesses that earn revenues from illegal migrants, they say:
The Proposed Rule will also significantly reduce the spending power of asylum seekers, thereby weakening the economies of the States. Curtailing work authorization for asylum seekers or cutting others off from EADs prematurely will result in lost wages and money that does not flow to the States’ businesses and economies. The New American Economy estimates that immigrants exercise billions in spending power each year, totaling over $724.8 billion in the States. Indeed, the Department itself recognizes that up to $4.4 billion could be lost in wages.
Businesses will have to hire Americans instead of migrants and illegals, the attorneys general complain:
By the Department’s own admission, businesses will not only lose potential labor, but also will likely have to find replacement labor because the Proposed Rule cuts short asylum seekers’ ability to continue working, even if their asylum cases are ongoing in federal court. Although the Department asserts that businesses potentially could find other labor to substitute for the jobs that asylum applicants currently hold, its own analysis belies that premise. The Department acknowledges that with the unemployment rate at a “50-year low [. . .] it could be possible that employers may face difficulties finding reasonable labor substitutes.”
Migrants — including illegals — provide a large part of the labor force hired by employers in many states, they say:
While the Department makes no inquiry into the “wages, occupations, industries, or businesses that may employ such workers,” there is substantial data that several sectors of the States’ economies disproportionately employ immigrants and are likely to face costs while trying to find labor substitutes. In New Jersey, for example, service providers report that many asylum seekers are employed as home health aides, engineers, dental assistants, construction workers, and in farming and agriculture. Immigrants fill over two-thirds of the jobs in California’s agricultural and related sectors, almost half of those in manufacturing, 43 percent of construction jobs, and 41 percent of those in computer and sciences. Likewise, approximately 43 percent of employed undocumented workers in Illinois are employed in the food services and manufacturing industries. In New York, immigrants account for 71.4 percent of taxi drivers and chauffeurs; 68.3 percent of workers in private households, including maids, housekeepers, and nannies; 57.9 percent of those working as chefs and head cooks; 57.3 percent of nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides; and 44.7 percent of the state’s workers in traveler accommodation.


Almost 50% of U.S. employees got higher wages in 2019, up from almost 40% in 2018.
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of business. http://bit.ly/2SyaLg7 

Pay Raises and Training Expand in Donald Trump's Tight Labor Market









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