5-3-17 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Michelle Seiler-Tucker: An American Tax System Makeover

2. Michael Stumo: Seven Reasons Why Ending NAFTA Would Not Cause Armageddon

3. Joseph Klein: North Korean’s Relationship with Iran

4. Daniel Greenfield: Trump Ends Michelle Obama’s Policy of Starving Students

An American Tax System Makeover

By Michelle Seiler-Tucker

After years of rising tax rates and intensifying frustration among individuals and corporations, it appears the American tax system is finally getting the makeover it needs. President Trump unveiled a tax plan which, at its core, will grow America’s economy. By slashing corporate and individual tax rates, this plan will encourage more business to be done in our great country and result in more money in all our pockets. Under the current tax system, corporations are taxed at some of the highest rates in the world. This has discouraged them from reporting profits in America; and as a result, $2 trillion have been stashed abroad. In the new plan, both by decreasing the effective corporate tax rate and by applying a one-time amnesty tax rate for collecting offshore profits, corporations will begin doing business again in America. [more...]

Seven Reasons Why Ending NAFTA Would Not Cause Armageddon

By Michael Stumo

The media was aghast last week that some Trump administration personnel had drafted a proposal to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as a proposal to renegotiate it. Later it was reported that the White House was not going to advance the proposal to end NAFTA, after powerful business interests called in to object. If a “withdraw from NAFTA” proposal emerges, it could either be a negotiating ploy or it could be serious. Even if withdrawal is off the table now, U.S. negotiators should have the power to walk away from negotiations if they truly want a strong negotiating position. While CPA does not take either an “end NAFTA” or “save NAFTA” position, here are some reasons why NAFTA withdrawal would not cause Armageddon... [more...]

North Korean’s Relationship with Iran

By Joseph Klein

There is one facet of the North Korean problem that has hardly received any mention. That is reports of North Korea’s continuing collaborative relationship with Iran, enabling both countries’ nuclear programs to advance. According to two Israeli experts whom have studied the matter, “Iran is circumventing the restrictions on its nuclear program under the nuclear agreement with the P5+1 countries by collaborating with North Korea on missile development and modifying missiles for nuclear weapons.” They believe that a “strategic, military-technological collaboration” between the two countries is likely underway right now. With one rogue nuclear armed state that has already been threatening nuclear war working with a wannabe nuclear armed state that is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, the risk to U.S. and international security is multiplied exponentially unless steps can be taken to stop the collaboration in its tracks. [more...]

Trump Ends Michelle Obama’s Policy of Starving Students

By Daniel Greenfield

School lunches are no longer a depressing mass of unidentifiable and inedible paste that provides all the nutritional content needed by the average mouse. That's right. The Michelle Obama school lunch menu is headed into the wrong side of history. Yes, Michelle Obama had a dream - a humble dream - to starve children, to make students miserable. And Trump is depriving her of that dream. He and Ag Secretary Perdue moved to Make School Meals Great Again. [more...]