A big part of Joe Biden’s original Build Back Better bill was to outlaw right to work laws in 26 states and require workers to join unions and pay dues to big labor bosses – whether they wanted to or not. It was a big wet kiss by the Bidenites to the union brass.
Thankfully that idea of forced unionism from sea to sea blew up like the Hindenburg.
Good thing, because new data from the National Right to Work Committee found that since the Covid lockdowns started in March of 2020, the states which are right to work have created 1.1 million jobs. The states with forced-union laws LOST 1.2 million jobs.
We only wonder why EVERY state doesn’t immediately adopt right to work. That’s where the jobs are.
3) Just As We Advised: States Are Using Their Biden Dollars To Cut Taxes
When Biden passed his ruinous $1.9 trillion blue-state bailout “stimulus” package – we urged Republican governors to use the funds to stimulate their local economies by cutting taxes. Thankfully, more than 20 GOP governors, including Florida’s Ron DeSantis, took our advice.
We were and still are ADAMANTLY against the federal government ever giving states money – after all, the feds can only give money to states by taking it from them in the first place. But if Congress was going to send the states money, best to send the dollars back to the people in tax cuts rather than to add to bureaucracies.
A front-page Washington Post story sneeringly derides the tax-cutters as rogue states “defying the Biden Administration” and the ban Congress illegally slapped on states to use stimulus money to reduce taxes.
“The moves have threatened to siphon off aid that might otherwise help states fight the pandemic, shore up their local economies or prepare for a potential recession,” is the Post's conclusion.
But in reality, the opposite turned out to be true. It is the red states that cut taxes that are in far better economic condition today than the blue states that spent the money on welfare and other government handouts. (See the chart in the item above.)
The Post mentions that 21 states challenged the prohibition on tax cuts and confesses that “in nearly every case, these legal efforts have prevailed.”
That’s because courts have found the Biden rule was a clear violation of the 9th and 10th Amendments – an unconstitutional ban on states exercising their taxing powers.
Congrats to the many Republican governors and state attorney generals who did the right thing economically and constitutionally.
Alameda County reimposed a mask mandate last month, alone among counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its COVID numbers were indistinguishable from its neighbors.
Eric Ting of SFGATE reports:
"The case rate curves for Alameda and Contra Costa counties are near-identical. Because the neighboring counties are similar in so many respects, if masking policy had an impact on pandemic outcomes, one would expect to see some sort of discrepancy in the graph."
Also published over the weekend was a study from Fargo, North Dakota, which has two school districts, one of which was subject to a mask mandate for a large portion of last school year when the other was not.
The authors write:
"We observed no significant difference between student case rates while the districts had differing masking policies (IRR 0.99; 95% CI: 0.92 to 1.07) nor while they had the same mask policies (IRR 1.04; 95% CI: 0.92 to 1.16)."
We expect liberals to push for mask mandates again as we get into fall and winter. The evidence is increasingly clear that they don't work.
