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Reading The Writing On The Wall

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On Thursday, Legal Insurrection reported the following:

Boeing will move its Defense, Space, and Security headquarters from Arlington, VA, back to the St. Louis area.

The main headquarters will stay in Arlington.

“The move emphasizes company leadership’s commitment to being present and engaged with teammates who are designing, producing and delivering vital defense and space products and capabilities for customers in the U.S. and around the world,” according to a Boeing press release.

The company did not mention politics in the press release, but I do not believe in coincidences.

I mean, it makes sense for Boeing to place its defense headquarters in Arlington, the home of the Pentagon.

The defense headquarters called St. Louis home from 1997 to 2017 before heading to Chicago.

Then, in 2022, Boeing transferred its headquarters to Arlington during former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s term. The former governor’s efforts led to Virginia being named the best state for business in 2024.

Virginia is no longer a great state for business.

The article lists a few of the current tax proposals making their way through the legislature:

HB 378 – Imposes a 3.8% net investment income tax on individuals, trusts, and estates beginning in taxable year 2027. If enacted, HB 378 would raise VA’s top marginal income tax rate on portfolio and passive income to 9.55%.

HB 900 – Authorizes sales tax hikes in various transportation districts, imposes a new tax on each and every retail delivery in Northern Virginia (Amazon, Uber Eats, FedEx, UPS, etc.), similar to the one imposed in Minnesota by Gov. Tim Walz (D).

Then there’s HB61, which discriminates against white men when bidding on government contracts:

As one alarmed Virginian reports on X, HB61 would put white men at a distinct disadvantage when bidding on government contracts. According to the post, “For discretionary contracts under $100K, White men are barred from even being considered unless there’s literally no competition. And even then, this bill allows agencies to award contracts to women or minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business owned by a White man.”

It seems to me that HB61 would be unconstitutional based on the fact that it discriminates according to race, but a court challenge would have to decide that.

Racism In Public Policy

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Dan Bongino posted an article today listing four Biden administration proposals that use race-based criteria in the distribution of taxpayer dollars.

The article reports four examples:

    1. A nearly $10 billion Treasury Department mortgage-assistance initiative plans explicitly to favor “socially disadvantaged individuals,” essentially defined as nonwhite people, in assigning the funds.
    2. A $1 billion Department of Agriculture initiative targeting “socially disadvantaged farmers” would specifically dole out taxpayer money “based on race and ethnicity.”
    3. Another USDA program would spend up to $400 million to buy food from “local, regional, and socially disadvantaged farmers,” with “socially disadvantaged” once again basically standing in for “non-white.”
    4. A $10 billion Small Business Administration credit program intends to emphasize funding businesses with nonwhite ownership.

The story comes as controversy has continued to spread over the critical race theory, with many lawmakers across the country moving to ban the teaching of the theory in public schools over concerns that it is racially divisive.

The article concludes:

The Biden agenda is also set to face legal challenges, with some of his race-based initiatives already suffering setbacks in court challenges.

“This case is about whether the government can allocate limited coronavirus relief funds based on the race and sex of the applicants,” a federal judge wrote in a case challenging the Biden administration’s plan to favor some races in the distribution of COVID-19 relief funds. “We hold that it cannot. It is indeed ‘a sordid business’ to divide ‘us up by race.’ And the government’s attempt to do so here violates the Constitution.”

Discrimination based on race is illegal regardless of who is doing it and who it is against. All four of these policies need to be shot down by the courts before they see the light of day.