SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

AN UNSURPRISING POLL RESULT – FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:  A new poll reveals that the majority of people in the United States have an unfavorable view of critical race theory.
A majority, at 58%, expressed an unfavorable view of critical race theory, while 38% expressed a favorable view, according to the results of a YouGov/Economist poll released Tuesday.  The poll comes as debate rages across the country in recent months about critical race theory, with several Republican-controlled states moving to ban the teaching of the theory in public schools.  “Critical race theory is basically teaching people to hate our country, hate each other,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has vowed to ban the teaching of the theory in his state. “It’s divisive, and it’s basically an identity politics version of Marxism.”  CRT, as it's now being called, is very bad stuff, the exact opposite of what Dr. King taught.  It also represents an opportunity for our side to counter it and propose far better policies, which is what Gov. DeSantis is doing.

THOSE LITTLE DETAILS – FROM DAILY MAIL:   Middle income families are lashing out against Joe Biden's punitive new tax plan that would claim a large chunk of the amount someone leaves to their kids when they die just because it has gone up in value over the course of their lifetime.   The harsh new tax - dubbed Biden's 'death tax' - is hidden in his American Families Plan and it's receiving ferocious backlash. It proposes that when someone dies, any asset they leave behind that has appreciated in value to more than $1million since the time they bought it should be taxed.   The tax rate would go as high as 40% - double what it is now - and it applies to how much the asset has appreciate. So someone who inherited a house their mother and father paid $250,000 for but that's now worth $2.5million would have to pay tax on the difference.   Currently, the only capital gains taxes people pay on inherited assets is what they pay when they sell it, and even then it is 23 percent.   The current law allows families with few cash assets to keep valuable property, stocks or businesses in the family, passing them down for generations without anyone being given a huge tax bill.  I know very little about the details, but they do suggest that everything this administration proposes should be looked at with two eyes.  There seem to be a number of hidden taxes, and hidden policies that will lead to higher prices, which are a kind of tax themselves.  Biden says he's protecting the middle class, but the middle class is already being hit at the pump and at the supermarket.  And don't try to object.  You'll be called a racist or a destroyer of Earth.

June 18, 2022