Remember teaching your children that money doesn’t grow on trees and that they have to earn it? Evidently some of our members of Congress never learned that lesson.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about some recent statements made by Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Minnesota.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n Tlaib introduced<\/a> her anti-poverty legislation \u2013 the\u00a0Building Our Opportunities to Survive and Thrive (BOOST) Act \u2013 last month and spoke about it at the NAACP convention over the weekend. The proposal offers a guaranteed income \u2013 up to $6,000 per year \u2013 to families and individuals under certain financial thresholds via a \u201crefundable tax credit that can be paid monthly.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The Michigan lawmaker\u2019s BOOST Act serves as her response to what she calls the \u201cGOP Tax Scam,\u201d despite the fact that two-thirds of Americans will pay<\/a> less in taxes in 2018, thanks to the tax cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRecently, I introduced the Boost Act. This legislation completely repeals the GOP Tax Scam that is only helping wealthy individuals \u2013 the rich, the corporations,\u201d she told the crowd.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnd do you know what I did with that money? Do you know what I said? We\u2019re going to go ahead and put it in the pockets of folks like everyday Americans,\u201d she said, noting that families making less than $100,000 could get up to $6,000 per year.<\/strong><\/p>\n Taking the moral route, Tlaib said it is important to give money back to the people who actually \u201cearned\u201d it, suggesting that wealthy individuals do not earn or deserve to keep the fruits of their labor.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0I guess the Democrats have decided that class warfare works better than racism. Their playbook is getting very old.<\/p>\n The article notes the impact of the GOP tax cuts:<\/p>\n The economy has seen a boost from the GOP tax cuts, with companies issuing employee bonuses and announcing plans to invest billions in the U.S., thereby providing thousands of new jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n Last year, Exxon Mobil announced<\/a> that it would invest $50 billion in the U.S. economy, adding 12,000 new jobs, thanks to the GOP tax cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n Even Starbucks, a notoriously left-leaning company, used millions of its corporate tax cut to raise the wage for existing workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n Under Tlaib’s economic plan, the people who would benefit are the people who are not working; and the people who would lose are the people who work for a living. How long would it be before those who are working to give those who don’t work a free ride would see the folly of their ways and quit producing? That’s where socialism always winds up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember teaching your children that money doesn’t grow on trees and that they have to earn it? Evidently some of our members of Congress never learned that lesson. Yesterday Breitbart posted an article about some recent statements made by Representative … Continue reading Far-left \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke at the NAACP convention over the weekend and railed against the GOP tax cuts in a pitch for her anti-poverty BOOST Act, promising to take money from the rich and give it \u201cback to the people that earned it.\u201d<\/h2>\n