February, 2020, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: Birth Control Licensing In Chicago, Small Businesses Flee NYC, and Pelosi is Despicable In DC

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) Just when you thought that American politicians could not get any more intrusive into our lives, any more anti-freedom, a politician comes along to blow away that assumption:

• According to a recent article on the Liberty Planet website, a local Chicago politician, Ray Lopez, wants anyone wanting to have a kid to get a license from the government before conceiving.
• A likely cause of this insane idea was the recent case of a father who is accused of murdering his own which is certainly a tragic story.
• But to force ALL would be parents to go in front of basically a baby licensing board before conceiving is too inane to try and comprehend.
• Communist China tried to get involved in the childbirth process with their one child strategy and it has been a disaster.
• China’s population is aging rapidly causing all kinds of social service support issues.
• Also, over time Chinese parents have been forced to have abortions for violating the one child laws, those that managed to give birth to extra kids have had to pay hefty fines for the simple act of parenthood, and these extra kids have been denied “ofifcial documentation” from the central government which means they cannot go to school, enroll in college, or get a decent job.
• And this local politician wants to do a similar program in this country.

The government intrusion into our lives in this idiocy boggles the mind:

• Would the government take a child away from the parents if they did not get a license?
• If kids were taken away from parents because no license was obtained, would the kids be put in foster care, a system that already has far too many family-less kids in the system?
• If the parents got a divorce and remarried would the step father or mother have to go through some sort of licensing process also?
• Would their fines and imprisonment for giving birth without a license, planned or unplanned/accidental births?
• Would be involved in this licensing process, who gets to determine what the requirements would be, and what would prevent the process from not becoming a social manipulation tool, e.g. parents of a certain political bent might get denied a license (e.g. remember how Obama denied IRS rights and due process to Republican political groups)?

And in the end, who says the government and the politicians that operate it could even determine if a parent would murder their kid after birth? Hey, they cannot even enforce their own Do Not Call List or run an efficient Post Office operation, and they want to dictate who can have a kid. Ridiculous and ludicrous.

2) We have often talked about the basic human need to be free and a large part of that need for freedom is economic freedom. With economic freedom we are freer to educate our kids the way we want, to start a family business, to take a better vacation, etc. And when taxes get too high which ends up infringing on our freedom, people and businesses usually take action at some point to relieve that tax oppression, usually by moving somewhere where taxes go down and freedom goes up.

We have talked about this situation any number of times. Illinois, New Jersey, and California keep shrinking in population size as the politicians in those states continually raise the tax burden on state residents. And now, according to a recent New York Post article, the same thing is happening relative to small businesses in New York City:

• John Aidan Byrne wrote back in May, 2019 that “NYC Taxes Are Squeezing Out Small Business To Florida.
• Remember, as we have discussed, there is no state income tax in Florida and other taxes, gasoline, property taxes, etc. are generally lower, giving residents and businesses more economic freedom.
• In a 2018 ranking of small business growth, it showed that Miami, Florida had overtaken New York City when it comes to small business growth.
• In fact, NYC had plummeted from first to fourth in the latest rankings of small business growth.
• Rohit Arora, the CEO of Biz2Credit which developed the rankings said: “Although New York is still booming, the cost of doing business for small business owners continues to rise. Rents continually increase, and labor costs are high and will continue to increase, since New York has enacted a law to raise the minimum wage to $15.”
• The American Legislative Exchange Council has ranked the city and state dead last in economic competitiveness.
• And while the overall economy is strong, NYC keeps raising taxes to pay for its financial problems which in turn drives out both businesses and residents.
• Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, a capital markets and regulatory consultant, is quoted in the article by estimating that New York City has only about $59 billion in assets to pay $244 billion in liabilities: “Moreover, this burden grew by an additional $1,600 for every New York City resident every year since 2014.” 
• Besides higher and higher taxes, NYC liberal politicians continue to pile more and more regulations onto city small businesses, e.g. paid sick leave, regulations that also reduce economic freedom and the profits of small businesses.

So, just another example of how American politicians continue to be totally ignorant when it comes to simple economic principles. Higher and higher taxes cause people to make rational economic decisions to keep as much of their hard earned wealth as possible which usually results in people and businesses leaving for less taxing situations. This in turn reduces the tax flow of government entities which causes them to raise tax rates to make up for the shortfall which results in more people and businesses leaving which results in lower tax revenue and the economic death spiral is underway. 

As a result you end up with the current migration situation in NYC - on average, every day 100 NYC residents leave the city and move elsewhere where the tax bite is much more reasonable. And yet the politicians they leave behind never understand why and Miami becomes the fastest growing environment for small businesses in the country.

3) Let’s finish today with the disgrace that is Nancy Pelosi. Most people probably know that on national television she tore up Trump’s State of the Union speech in total contempt for the President. We now know from video clips that this was a premeditated action since she had started ripping the pages before the end of the speech. 

In doing so she insulted and disrespected the many Americans who had their story of success told by Trump in the speech: young and old, white and black, men and women, ordinary Americans who had overcome challenges and were succeeding in America. And in a couple of flagrant rips, Pelosi ripped their stories into pieces because she is an immature, repugnant person when it comes to common decency and respect.

Well, sometimes there is karma as untold millions of people were disgusted by her behavior and some are taking actions in response to her childish antic:

• Democratic Congressman, Lee Zeldin, who is also a law professor, denounced Pelosi’s disgusting actions and said she should step down from being Speaker of the House.
• Specifically: “Nancy Pelosi should step down as Speaker. I’m confident that the American public will be directly sending her that message themselves later this year if she doesn’t read the tea leaves herself and resign on her own terms today. It’s time.”
• Jonathan Turley, who was a witness in the House impeachment proceedings and who is also a George Washington University law professor was also outraged at Pelosi’s actions: “[44 years ago] The country was deeply divided, but both parties maintained the tradition of civility and decorum. I was struck how members, even in the heat of furious debates, would not attack each other by name and followed rigid principles of decorum. They understood that they were the custodians of this institution and bore a duty to strengthen and pass along those traditions to the next generation. At that moment, she represents the House as an institution — both Republicans and Democrats. Instead, she decided to become little more than a partisan troll from an elevated position. The protests of the Democratic members also reached a new low for the House. Pelosi did not gavel out the protest. She seemed to join it. That is why I argue in the Hill that, if Pelosi does not apologize and agree to honor the principle of neutrality and civility at the State of the Union, she should resign as speaker.”
• Republican Matt Gaetz and other Republican Congressman sent a letter to the chairman of the House Ethics Committee that demanded an investigation to Pelosi’s actions.
• Specifically, they want an investigation “into Speaker Pelosi’s flagrant violation of decorum, as defined in clauses 1 and 2 of House Rule XXIII, and request a criminal referral for her potential violation of 18 U.S.C. §2071 (Concealment, removal, or mutilation of documents), following President Trump’s recent State of the Union address of February 4, 2020. Her unseemly behavior certainly warrants censure.”

So Democrats, Republicans, and law professors are all in agreement that what Pelosi did was despicable. Given that this type of agreement rarely happens in Washington, it tells you how horrible Pelosi behaved. No matter how much she hates Trump, her disrespect of the Americans that are referred to in Trump’s speech is unforgivable.

Stupidity in Chicago, economic ignorance in NYC, and unparalleled disgrace form Nancy Pelosi, a major contributor to the hatred and venom that pervades Washington D.C. Political class insanity that is more out of control than ever.

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