Six States Could Pass School Choice Bills THIS YEAR!!

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Unleash Prosperity Hotline
Issue #716
02/21/2023
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1) Six States Could Pass School Choice Bills THIS YEAR!!
In partnership with ALEC, The Committee to Unleash Prosperity held its School Choice Summit in Palm Beach, FL this past weekend with officials from seven states – West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas, to name a few. The near-unanimous consensus was that this is THE school choice moment we’d been waiting for.

Why now? Because in the wake of school closures, ESG anti-America curriculum in the public schools, and record low test scores, parents have had it with the government educrats, politicians, and teacher unions running our schools (into the ground).

Earlier this year Iowa went all in and passed an Arizona-style universal Education Savings Accounts bill for all students to attend the schools their families choose. The money follows the students. West Virginia has passed a similar bill.

The two big targets this year are Florida and Texas.

Texas gov. Greg Abbott announced in his State of the State address that school choice is his top priority and he may call a special session of the legislature in Austin to get it done. Florida’s school choice program was begun under Jeb Bush and Ron DeSantis wants to make it the most ambitious and well-funded program in the country.

If Texas and Florida get this done, there are 21 other states that have the red trifecta – Republican governor and both legislative chambers controlled by the GOP.

If you want more information about this educational sonic boom that is about to go off, and how you can help us in the multi-million dollar initiative to save our children, please contact us. If you’ve been reading about the disgrace of our public schools on these pages, you realize we don’t have a minute to lose. We’re swinging for the fences here.

Robert Enlow of EdChoice, Janine Yass of the Yass Education Prizes, Jeanne Allen with Center for Education Reform, and Steve Moore at our School Choice Summit last week.

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2) Biden Team Decides It’s Not A Great Time For A Climate Change Conference In Africa When Ohio Burns From Toxic Chemicals
If you don’t regularly go to the ClimateDepot website, by our friend Marc Morano, you are really missing out.

Here is his latest humorous (but true) headline from the website regarding the last-minute cancelation of the trip across the world to pledge $100 billion of climate funding – money we don’t have.

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3) The Latest Scheme To Save The Planet: Ration Food And Oil
Speaking of climate lunacy, here’s one for the can't make it up file:

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The paper from something called the Inter-disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre at the University of Leeds says:

We argue that rationing could help states reduce emissions rapidly and fairly. Our arguments in this paper draw on economic analysis and historical research into rationing in the UK during (and after) the two world wars, highlighting success stories...

While some argue for the modernisation of rationing, introducing tradable allowances, we argue that the rejection of markets, and a commitment to fair shares, is a key part of the value of rationing, and precisely what made rationing attractive to the public in the 1940s.

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We love the line about rejecting the free market and giving everyone their “fair share.” Is America going to become a giant Kindergarten classroom?

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4) Scholars Rank Biggest Spending Presidents As Greatest
Yesterday, we glumly noted how George Washington's Birthday got diluted into something popularly known as "President’s Day."

HOTLINE readers reminded us that left-wing academics have made it even worse with their periodic surveys ranking all the presidents. Siena College Research Institute surveyed 141 presidential “scholars” to rate all 45 presidents.

In all seven surveys since 1982 the same five men have topped the field: FDR finished first in six of the seven, followed by Lincoln, Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson.

So the president who grew the government the most and who failed in eight years to end the unemployment line of the Great Depression is the best president?

Here’s a laugher: Joe Biden was ranked 19th overall, primarily because of his ability to compromise (when?), great court appointments (!), and his integrity (!!!!!).

What planet are these scholars even orbiting?

Barack Obama is in 11th place, while Lyndon Johnson is ranked 8th best, despite the catastrophic Vietnam War, the failed Great Society, and a soiled ethics record exhaustively documented by biographer Robert Caro.

Given those rankings, it should come as no surprise that Ronald Reagan who won the Cold War and launched a three-decade-long prosperity is only rated the 18th best president. In fact, he’s slipped five places since 2018 and his current rating is only as high as it is because scholars view him as the 3rd “luckiest” president.

Donald Trump is ranked as next to last of all presidents in handling the economy despite the economic boom during his term.

This is beyond preposterous and the only grade we can give this work product of these blinkered scholars is a simple one: You Flunk!

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5) Quote Of The Day – Even High-Income Earners Feel Squeeze Of Biden Economy
From an NBC News story:

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“According to a recent survey by the banking firm LendingClub and the payments news website PYMNTS, 64% of a representative sample of nearly 4,000 U.S. consumers now say they are just getting by.

Among the new cohort of people who say they are newly living paycheck to paycheck, 86% pull in more than $100,000 annually, the survey found. Given that the median household income in the U.S. is $70,784, the survey shows the soaring cost of living in America is catching up to even more well-off U.S. residents…..

This year, the percentage of Americans saying their finances were worse than they were a year ago hit 50%, the highest since the Great Recession.”

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6) This Explains Why It’s So Popular

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