Quick Hits: Volume CCCV

 - Politicians reneging on campaign promises once they're elected is a story as old as time. But to go back on your word which promises to assist senior citizens with over-taxation of their fixed income is pretty brazen. 

“They rolled the dice and lost,” Walz says, “so don’t give me crocodile tears.” He says his current proposal cuts SS taxes for another 386,000 Minnesotans, all but the wealthiest taxpayers. “The wealthy will be just fine.” Says he campaigned on SS tax cuts, not total repeal. pic.twitter.com/8FUkzGj5sV

— Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) February 27, 2023

Freshman Rep. Elliott Engen offered up a reminder to those who made such promises on the trail. 

The state of Minnesota has a near $18 billion budget surplus and is one of the few states in the country which taxes Social Security benefits, yet DFLers are so addicted to spending that they can't even let go of this one revenue stream. This is yet another piece of pavement being laid down on that path to becoming a cold California. 

- The guy who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The Economist spun off this gem the other day. 

If the Supreme Court throws out Biden’s student debt relief plan, some 20-30 million Americans are going to look at five or six justices as costing them $10k or $20k. That could drive SCOTUS’s popularity still lower.

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) February 28, 2023

This is a classic example of what happens when there is no coherent legal argument to defend making fiscal policy via executive fiat. That is, pretend that Federal judiciary decisions should be subject to popular appeal as opposed to...oh I dunno...THEIR FREAKIN' LEGAL STANDING!!!

- The disastrous 4-year tenure of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has mercifully come to an end. 

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses her bid for re-election, ending her historic run as the city’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the position. https://t.co/AyRsVPuLcZ

— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) March 1, 2023

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blames election loss on racism, gender https://t.co/vYbqBDbVSt pic.twitter.com/jXrG71tcyQ

— New York Post (@nypost) March 1, 2023

 

I wonder if voters, when casting votes for Lightfoot's opponents, yelled "THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY!!!"

But I digress. 

The best news out of all this? The fact Mayor Lightfoot's poor performance trumped the multiple checkmarks on the intersectionality scorecard. That there is the true spirit of "equality."

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