Friday April 1: The Wisconsin primary next Tuesday with Richard Baehr of American Thinker....... https://t.co/JQD8pghXjq— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 1, 2016
Wed Mar 30: Obama trip to Cuba, the tango, Brazil, cartels in Mexico and other stories..... https://t.co/8D5IIy9UJe— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 30, 2016
Tuesday Mar 29: A chat with Israel Ortega about immigration, Trump and the 2016 election..... https://t.co/xOa3MzS0zn— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 29, 2016
Thursday Mar 31: A look at this crazy campaign with George Rodriguez........ https://t.co/PveJQfE8jU— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 31, 2016
The number of Californians leaving the state and moving to Texas is at its highest level in nearly a decade, according to datafrom the Internal Revenue Service.According to IRS migration data, which uses individual income tax returns to record year-to-year address changes, over 250,000 California residents moved out of the state between 2013 and 2014, the latest period for which data was available. The tax returns reported more than $21 billion in adjusted gross income to the IRS.Of the returns, 33,626 reported address changes from California to Texas, which has been the top destination for individuals leaving California since 2007. Californians who moved to Texas between 2013 and 2014 reported $2.19 billion in adjusted gross income.The number of returns showing address changes from California to Texas hasn’t been this high since the period 2006-07. During that period, 34,078 returns were filed showing address changes to Texas.Fewer Texans moved to California during the 2013-14 period. The IRS reported 21,391 returns with address changes from Texas to California. The returns reported $1.56 billion in adjusted gross income.“California’s taxes and regulations are crushing businesses, and there are more opportunities in Texas for people to start new companies, get good jobs, and create better lives for their families,” said Nathan Nascimento, the director of state initiatives at Freedom Partners. “When tax and regulatory climates are bad, people will move to better economic environments—this phenomenon isn’t a mystery, it’s how marketplaces work. Not only should other state governments take note of this, but so should the federal government.”According to Tom Gray of the Manhattan Institute, people may be leaving California for the employment opportunities, tax breaks, or less crowded living arrangements that other states offer.“States with low unemployment rates, such as Texas, are drawing people from California, whose rate is above the national average,” Gray wrote. “Taxation also appears to be a factor, especially as it contributes to the business climate and, in turn, jobs.”“Most of the destination states favored by Californians have lower taxes,” Gray wrote. “States that have gained the most at California’s expense are rated as having better business climates. The data suggest that may cost drivers—taxes, regulations, the high price of housing and commercial real estate, costly electricity, union power, and high labor costs—are prompting businesses to locate outside California, thus helping to drive the exodus.”
The Havana Tribune, a state-controlled Cuban newspaper, has added insult to injury following Fidel Castro’s scathing criticism of President Barack Obama upon his departure from the island. In an editorial, the title of which refers to President Obama as “negro,” an opinion columnist has accused him of “inciting rebellion.”The article is titled “Negro, ¿Tu Eres Sueco?” which roughly translates to “Black Man, Are You Dumb?” (The idiom “pretend to be a Swede” means to play dumb, hence the title is literally asking, “Are you Swedish?”) The author, who is black, goes on to condemn President Obama for meeting with Cuban pro-democracy activists and “subtly” suggesting that the Cuban Revolution needed to change. “Obama came, saw, but unfortunately, with the pretend gesture of lending a hand, tried to conquer,” Elias Argudín writes.“[Obama] chose to criticize and subtly suggest… incitations to rebellion and disorder, without caring that he was on foreign ground. Without a doubt, Obama overplayed his hand,” he continues. “The least I can say is, Virulo-style: ‘Negro, are you dumb?’”Virulo is a white pro-Revolution comedian.
Friday April 1: The Wisconsin primary next Tuesday with Richard Baehr of American Thinker....... https://t.co/JQD8pghXjq— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 1, 2016
On the sixth anniversary of President Obama signing the ObamaCare law and saddling the nation with its regulatory diktats, here’s a disquieting statistic that won’t be trumpeted: $55 billion in waste and counting.Investor’s Business Daily crunched the numbers. More troubling still is that the hemorrhaging will continue from this health care mess. Among the losses to date:• $1.2 billion in startup loans for ObamaCare’s 12 (out of 23) failed insurance co-ops.• $1.5 billion in failed or unrealized state-run health exchanges — and not one of the remaining 14 is fully functional, according to a government audit.• An estimated $45 billion for the 165 million hours that businesses and individuals spent trying to comply with ObamaCare’s 106 new regulations.• $750 million in public subsidies to more than 500,000 people who weren’t eligible for coverage.• $3.5 billion diverted from the Treasury to insurance companies to help cover their losses.For all the happy talk about gains in the public’s insurance coverage (except, of course, for the unfortunate folks who signed up with one of the government’s failed insurance co-ops), the reality is a burgeoning, unsustainable government bureaucracy that is on pace to cost considerably more.
Thursday Mar 31: A look at this crazy campaign with George Rodriguez........ https://t.co/PveJQfE8jU— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 31, 2016
