July, 2019, Part 7,Political Class Insanity: Kamala Harris Is Running For Queen, Stupid Gun Control Laws and the Hypocrisy of Biden and Sanders

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Democrats running for President have been very hard on corporate America and Trump’s business tax cuts. Never mind that American companies create untold wealth and economic growth and that the Trump tax cuts have led to historically low unemployment rates for all sections of Americans. 

And Obama was no better as he tried to close out a business loophole from a tax perspective. But do not tell Joe Biden any of this, a man who is both a Democratic Presidential candidate and Obama’s Vice President:

• According to Brittany De Lea, writing for Fox Business News on July 10, 2019, Biden exploited a business tax loophole to tremendous self enrichment levels, a business tax loophole that Obama had tried to eliminate.
• Apparently Biden and his wife have taken profits from their book sales and speeches and funneled them through S corporations in order to minimize their tax impacts.
• This S corporation strategy saved them about $500,000 in Federal taxes.
• This allowed the Bidens to avoid massive payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare.
• And despite being just a politician, Biden and his wife have earned a remarkable $15 million in the TWO years since he left office.

All of this is legal. But the hypocrisy of demonizing American businesses when you are using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes that most other Americans are paying and then leveraging a lackluster political career into millions and millions of dollars shows that our political processes continue to be so broken.

2) According to Gallup polling, gun control is about the 20th most important issue that concerns Americans. That means that there are 19 or so more important things that politicians should be focusing on before tackling a likely fictitious issue called gun control.

But that has not stopped Presidential candidate Kamala Harris from harping on the need for gun control, even if it means violating the Constitution:

• Harris recently dropped the un-Constitutional threat that if Congress does not act on her gun control plans she will violate the Constitution and do whatever she wants.
• Her words: “Gun violence is the leading cause of death for young Black men in America. We must stop this. When president, I will take executive action to ensure guns do not fall into the wrong hands.”
• And not only is she threatening to bypass the Constitution she issued an ultimatum to Congress: if Congress does not do what she demands within the first 100 days she will ignore them and do what she wants.

Not sure Harris is running for President or a queen, where she does whatever she wants, the Constitution be damned. Insanity.

3) But Harris is not the only "damn the Second Amendment" politician out there. New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, recently signed four new gun control bills. This is about a year after he signed six other gun control laws.

Components of these laws include the following:

• Every gun dealer in the state now has to sell at least one “smart gun” that can only be fired by designated users.
• Criminals that previously had convictions of carjacking and making terroristic threats can now no longer buy guns in the state.
• It is now a third degree crime if someone tries to obtain a gun who is not allowed to have one.
• Encourages, not requires, gun retail dealers and operators of shooting ranges to attend a suicide prevention course.

And Murphy and the New Jersey political class are not done, other gun restrictions are pending:

• Require guns to be locked away when the New Jersey gun owner leaves their home or premises.
• Make it a second-degree crime in New Jersey to act as a straw purchaser and a third-degree crime to transport, sell or possess a firearm without a federally licensed serial number.
• Require gun owners in the state to renew their gun id card every four years and prove they have attended a gun safety training course.
• Require that a New Jerseyan be at least 21 years old in order to buy gun ammunition in the state.
• Require ammunition sales outlets to report their sales to the State Police.

A few questions for the governor:

• Do we really think that gun toting criminals are going to go to a gun safety course every four years?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals are going to renew their gun id card every four years?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals care what the degree of criminality exists?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals care about smart guns?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals care about locking up their guns when not home?
• Do we really think gun toting criminals care it is a third-degree crime to transport, sell or possess a firearm without a federally licensed serial number?

Thus, new laws will restrict and make it more difficult for New Jersey citizens to utilize their Second Amendment rights while it will have no impact on criminals. Why? Because they are criminals, not a complex concept. Insane.

4) According to a recent Godfather Politics article by Warner Todd Huston, Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders quite the hypocrite when comes to having a minimum wage of $15 an hour:

• Sanders has hassled companies like McDonalds and Walmart for underpaying these companies’ employees.
• He has been a national advocate for a Federal mandated $15 an hour minimum wage.
• But his hypocrisy was uncovered when it recently became known that while he has badgering private companies to raise their employees wages to at least $15 an hour, he does not pay many of his staff this level of wages, with many of them getting only $13 an hour.
• An organized group of Bernie’s employees have sent a letter to Sanders campaign manager, Faiz Shakir: “Many field staffers are barely managing to survive financially, which is severely impacting our team’s productivity and morale. Some field organizers have already left the campaign as a result.”

But this is usually what happens in socialism dominated countries. The elite make the big bucks and despite promises of socialistic programs, regular citizens always get the short end of the stick. Elitist Sanders is a millionaire many times over, owner of at least three different homes in different parts of the country, but despite his high rhetoric he shortchanges his own employees. The hypocrisy is blatant and very telling.

That will do it for today: Democrats focus on a minor issue relative to Americans priorities and rich politicians consider themselves above the law and not bound by decency or integrity. More insanity to follow.

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