Thursday, September 20, 2018

9-20-18 Great Guests for Your Show


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

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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