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Unleash Prosperity Hotline
Issue #1244
04/15/2025
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1) Happy Tax Day – Every Progressive in Congress Voted to Raise Your Taxes!

Every House and Senate Democrat (and four Republicans) voted in recent weeks to allow virtually all the Trump 2017 tax cuts to expire on December 31. This would pummel the average family with a higher tax bill of between $2,000 and $3,000 next year. Virtually every small business in these districts and states would pay more as well.

Our 501 (c)(4) affiliate Unleash Prosperity Now will start running radio and TV ads later this week alerting the voters in 10 swing districts with Democrats in the seat that their representative supported the higher taxes on everyone.

Here are the radio spots:

* UPN Drenched - California 13.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - California 45.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - Maine 2.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - Michigan 8.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - Nevada 3.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - New York 4.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - New York 19.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - Ohio 13.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - Oregon 5.mp3 ([link removed])
* UPN Drenched - Virginia 7.mp3 ([link removed])

For those who don’t like to click the links (we know there are a few of you), here is the transcript of the ad:

Speaker 1

Did you see Congressman Adam Gray just voted to let taxes go up by $4 trillion? What

Speaker 2

He said he was only going to tax the rich.

Speaker 1

Well, I'm not rich, and my family is going to have to pay up to $3,000 more in taxes if Congressman Gray has his way. Our small businesses would be hit with more taxes, too.

Speaker 2

Why would they vote for this?

Speaker 1

The Democrats always say they're going to only soak the rich, but bring your umbrella because we're all getting drenched.

Speaker 2

Tell Congressman Gray not to raise taxes. Make the Trump tax cuts permanent.

This ad was paid for by Unleash Prosperity Now.
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2) 85% of All Voters Want to Extend Trump Tax Cuts

In this hyper-polarized nation we live in, it's hard to find almost any issue that 8 of 10 voters agree on.

But here's one of them:
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Other key results from this poll:
* 81% said they can't afford to pay higher taxes next year.
* 74% support tax reform to lower rates and reduce deductions.
* 71% favor extending the small business income deduction.
* 61% support no tax on tips.

So let’s get going!
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3) Biggest School Choice Bill in History Heads to the House Floor in Texas

This week the Texas House of Representatives is expected to pass legislation that would enact the largest education freedom program anywhere in the country.

Backed by President Trump, Governor Abbott, and all of the members of the school choice coalition ([link removed]) that we at UP co-sponsor with ALEC, the proposal would create a $10,000 per child education scholarship account (ESA) program that any Texas student and family can access.

Here's the case for this TX school reform in one picture:

Since FY2014, funding for public schools in Texas has ballooned by 53% despite just a 5% increase in enrollment. Over that same time period, 4th and 8th grade reading and math scores have declined.
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4) Utah Tops Laffer-ALEC Rich States, Poor States Again

The big story in the latest report from UP co-founders Steve Moore and Art Laffer and ALEC President Jonathan Williams, is Utah topping the chart for a remarkable 18th year in a row.

Utah just keeps augmenting and adding to their great policy - most recently by ending collective bargaining for state employees.

Louisiana jumped 13 spots and Virginia dropped because of the liberal state legislative chamber stymieing Governor Youngkin's agenda.
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5) The Dumbest Antitrust Lawsuit In History?

Here's the headline from ABC News the other day:
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That's a laughable proposition. We asked Grok (X’s AI chatbot) for a head count on how many social media platforms there currently are for users to access. The answer: "It's tough to pin down an exact number since new platforms pop up constantly, and some fade away just as fast. As of early 2025, estimates suggest there are hundreds of social media platforms globally, ranging from giants like Facebook and YouTube to niche apps and decentralized networks."

Gee, that's some monopoly Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have got going there. Never mind that Zuckerberg was essentially the inventor of the term "social media." So the inventor of an industry that never existed before his arrival is a monopolist. They've shrewdly tried to maintain market share by purchasing WhatsApp and Instagram.

Can someone - anyone? - tell us who the victim of this "crime" is here? Last time we checked, Facebook was FREE, as are most of Meta's other platforms. The dirty price-gougers!

The average social media user is active on 6.8 different platforms and almost nobody is on just one site. Look at the microscopic numbers in the "unique to platform column" of this chart, versus the huge overlap numbers among all the major platforms:
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There's probably no industry in history with fewer barriers to entry than social media. Anyone with a cell phone and access to the internet can start one. You're now, at this moment, reading a social media platform. Our goal is to be bought by Meta for $1 billion.

This lawsuit speaks poorly of the Trump FTC. The president should stop the lawsuit and fire the staffers responsible for this assault on American greatness. We can't help wondering if Beijing is funding this assault.
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6) Republicans: Don't Get on This Roller Coaster

Thanks to our friend Bill Dal Col for sending this in.

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