1. Michael Stumo: Tariffs on $200 Billion of Chinese Imports - Necessary Response to China’s Continuing
Unfair Trade Practices
2. Jeff Ferry: Up to $100 Billion Annual Revenue Potential
From the MAC
3. Adam Andrzejewski: Is Oregon Governor Kate Brown Asking Taxpayers to Fund
Her Re-Election Campaign?
4. Robert Spencer: Three Lessons for Today’s Policymakers
5. Daniel Greenfield: Major Corporations Get Behind Racism and
Anti-Semitism
Tariffs
on $200 Billion of Chinese Imports - Necessary Response to China’s Continuing Unfair Trade Practices
These tariff actions are a necessary response to China’s refusal
to end dozens of commercial espionage and technology transfer practices. Our
member companies have faced years of heavily subsidized competition from China,
and they’ve experienced firsthand the aggressiveness of China’s hacking and
intellectual property theft campaign. Our members have also had to confront the
side effects of subsidized imports still affecting downstream markets. We see
this, for example, with companies that produce products made from steel and
aluminum. We’re pleased that the administration is now addressing this wider
problem, and these broader tariffs will help to minimize distortions that come
from partial tariff coverage. [more...]
Up to
$100 Billion Annual Revenue Potential From the MAC
By Jeff Ferry
The Market Access Charge (MAC), which would require
congressional legislation, would be a small tax levied on the purchase of every
dollar-denominated asset by a non-U.S. person or entity. The MAC would raise
substantial revenue for the benefit of the U.S. Treasury. We estimate the
annual revenue potential of the MAC to be in the range of $19 billion to $100
billion. The estimates should be regarded as preliminary indicative
estimates and not firm forecasts. [more...]
Is Oregon Governor Kate Brown Asking Taxpayers to Fund
Her Re-Election Campaign?
By Adam Andrzejewski, Author of “Operation Drain the Swamp”
According to Oregon law, public funds
cannot be used for a political purpose. Yet, data we’ve compiled shows a
troubling pattern of Governor Kate Brown mixing taxpayer-funded travel with
campaign fundraising events. This pattern could allegedly violate state law or
the governor’s own ethics policy, which states, “employees are
expressly prohibited from using any work time or any state resources to conduct
political activities.” Recently
at Forbes, we wrote about the governor using state agency resources and
employees to log and redact from disclosure the details around 500 campaign
events on her official state calendar since 2015. Now, we found Brown
repeatedly blurred the lines between state agency resources and campaign
activities – for years. [more...]
Three
Lessons for Today’s Policymakers
If these lessons were heeded, we would avoid numerous foreign
and domestic policy mistakes. On September 13, 2018, I spoke at the Freedom
Center’s Wednesday Morning Club in Los Angeles. Introducing my new and
bestselling book, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS,
I discussed three lessons from Islamic history that are unknown in the West
today, and are often outright denied by those Leftists who are rewriting
history in service of contemporary political agendas. I show how these lessons,
if heeded, have massive implications for American foreign and domestic policy. [more...]
Major Corporations
Get Behind Racism and Anti-Semitism
Last week, Rep. Maxine Waters received the National
Leadership Award from the National Newspaper Publishers Association. The NNPA
is an association of black papers that includes Final Call, the paper of
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Ford, GM, AT&T, Pfizer, AARP, Comcast,
and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation act as partners and sponsors of an
association that includes a notorious racist and anti-Semitic hate group. Ford
had spent a long time trying to live down its past association with another
anti-Semitic paper, The Dearborn Independent,
only to end up associated with yet another violently anti-Semitic publication. [more...]
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