1) Only One of Four Voters Support Biden's Position on “Clean” Debt Ceiling
We have been saying all year that if Republicans made the case that an increase in the national debt should be paired with policies to reduce debt spending, the public would agree—and boy have they.
This is from CNN of all places:
Amazingly, even with weeks and weeks of media/Biden/Yellen/Chicken Little warnings of an economic apocalypse if the debt ceiling isn’t raised on time, 15% of Americans are so concerned about the $32 trillion national debt, they say don’t raise the debt ceiling even if it means default. (BTW, this is a loaded poll question because as we’ve explained many times, there is no chance of a default even if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.)
Hmm, we wonder why people don’t believe the doomsday warnings of politicians and academics anymore. Maybe it’s because, for the last fifty years, the left has been conjuring up new phony predictions that the end of the world is nigh.
3) COVID Ended Two Years Ago – Democrats Still Want To Spend $91 Billion To Stop It
While we are on the subject of crazy demands by the Democrats, now they don’t even want to claw back the unspent COVID money authorized back in 2021-22. This is the one concession that Biden has made.
Now Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on House Appropriations, claims public health would collapse if much of the $91 billion in unobligated COVID money is rescinded.
"They want to take everything back," DeLauro told Axios.
Is there ANYTHING Democrats don’t want to spend money on? This would make as much sense as spending money in 2002 to stop the Y2K scare.
4) America’s Greatest Hypocrite, NC Governor Roy Cooper Sent His Daughter To Private School
We have confirmed that Cooper – who declared a state of emergency yesterday because he is in danger of losing the school choice debate to a veto-proof legislature – sent his own daughter to St. Mary's School in Raleigh.
If his concern is that the place will be overrun with riffraff and minorities if they get access to opportunity scholarships, though, we have news for him. The school's tuition is listed on its website as:
ANNUAL DAY TUITION: $32,550
ANNUAL BOARDING TUITION: $62,850
The bill Cooper opposes offers opportunity scholarships of $7,000 for low-income families, phasing down to $3000 as income rises. That may not be enough to make St. Mary's available to the hoi polloi, but many North Carolina families could find alternatives that work better for their kids than the local public schools.
Let’s be very clear about the position of the teacher unions and many of the politicians they’ve bought off: good private schools should only be available to the rich – not low-income minorities. Who are the racists?
CTUP's ad running this week couldn't be better timed:
5) Kim Reynolds Hits It Out of the Park In Iowa Again
Regular Hotline readers know that Iowa's Kim Reynolds is one of our favorite governors. She’s chopped income tax rates, controlled spending, and pushed through one of America's most ambitious school choice programs. Now Iowa has just passed a new property tax cap (she already rolled back the rate).
According to ALEC, this Truth in Taxation means that in many counties, Reynolds policies have cut payroll taxes for a $200,000 home nearly in half.
Under Reynolds, Iowa is becoming one of the most economically-competitive states in the country and could soon rival Utah as having the most pro-growth policy regime in America. Keep an eye on this emerging superstar.
