WOKE Tax?

WOKE Tax?

By: Joseph M. Lenard

The obvious would be to write about Jan-6 again, but you know by now I often avoid the obvious/expected…

Is someone finally paying (since we’re talking Taxes, Yes, pun intended) attention to what I’ve been saying for a long time now? Time to play back the same game on The Left!

Tom Cotton last month put forth the notion of a “WOKE Tax” on Colleges/Universities Endowments. A “ONE-TIME” Wealth-Tax on their Endowments, which amount into the 100’s of Billions of dollars they sit on while still begging for more money and increasing Tuition-Rates. Sound familiar? IT SHOULD, since I’ve suggested it many times over the last several years.

VIDEO (17m 29s): Gutfeld: These [University] Presidents were exposed as ‘dumb, dumber and dumbest’ (FOXNEWS):

From the Cotton Press-Release: “Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the WEST (Woke Endowment Security Tax) Act, legislation that would institute a 6% excise tax on the endowments of 10 American universities. The revenue from the taxes—$15.47 billion—would act as a source of funding for money going to aid Israel’s war against Hamas, Ukraine’s war against Russia, and to efforts to secure the southern border.”

Would never, ever, of course, pass Democrats Filibuster in U. S. Senate, cuz while they talk about Wealth Taxes, they mean OTHER THAN WEALTHY LEFTISTS… Remember how Senator Red-Ass… er… Burnt-Butt… er… Bernie… was always on about “Tax the Millionaires and Billionaires” now having suckered morons into buying his books (plus his, I allege, think we need investigation, of his like others USE OF INSIDER TRADING) to making him a Millionaire – dropped the “Millionaires” part. So, OK, Socio-Ho, how about we TAX those Billionaires?!?!? And, of course, then there is the Senator Fauxahontis Warren hypocritic rhetoric on same subject.

And NO, I have ZERO ISSUE calling Leftist loons names on occasion, as they are experts and do nothing but call us names (Alinksy attacks, cuz they cannot Win a logic, reason, fact, based discussion) Racist, Sexist, whatever-ist, whatever-phobic, etc… That does NOT make me a hypocrite, it makes me PRINCIPLED (as you know I always say #PrinciplesNotPersonalities) and the Principle – RETURN FIRE WHEN FIRED UPON!

Anyway, where was I, oh yes, SOUND FAMILIAR?!?!?

I’ve made the same basic suggestion, for different reasons at various and several other times over the years, including in my BeforeItsNews pieces (and my Michigan based rantings decade+ ago as part of “Rattle With US TEA-Party” site (now defunct)) and last mentioned (that I can recall, I repeat this often, I forget all the times/places I’ve used it in print or (to anyone who would hear me out on it) during Political Podcasts I’ve been on discussing Politics since my Terror Strikes book came out in April 2022 (I first mentioned Nationally on my Friend’s “The Patriot Angle” (now Savaged Unfiltered) Show (based in GA at that time, now in FL) in 2022 but had been vocalizing in Michigan debates years before ever since #obaMAO Federalized the Student Loans Program making it another Federal Welfare program instead of actual Loan which made for the easy money too-high amounts approvals and allowing Universities to over-inflate Tuition and led us to where we are today) in my TheLibertyBeacon “Time for NEW GOP LEADERSHIP with some Fight and Imagination” piece (from November 2022)…

We need NEW GOP LEADERSHIP, not Country Club RINO types like McCarthy and McConnell (and thankfully Rubio has grown some balls and calling for new US Senate Leadership versus the McConnell types) more interested in playing games (which too often means cozying up to the Swamp) and folks with IMAGINATION to turn shift back on FASCICRATS and continue the migration of Working Class Blacks and Hispanics that Trump started with IMAGINATIVE SOLUTIONS that can and will speak to ALL THINKING PEOPLE…

Turn the Tables on the FASCICRATS and their handouts at Average US Citizens’’ Taxpaying expense…

PUNISH THE LEFT, including those University Liberal Elites…

Here’s a thought for #GOP led (still pending, if enough Left cheating prevents it) #USHouse 1st Bill… Hear me out…

Legal (not illegal Executive Order) STUDENT DEBT RELIEF ACT Bill to provide Student Debt Relief PAID FOR BY A ONE TIME WEALTH TAX* OF UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENTS since it was/is fault of the Universities they have that Debt (NOT Biden’s shifting of Debt to be paid by those who did not attend College). ALSO, in the Bill, requirement all Tuition’s be SLASHED by 10% and CAPPED (Left loves price controls) at no more than #CPI or 5% (whichever LESS). Dare #USSenate Dems to Block or #Biden to #Veto to prove they care more about UNIVERSITY ADMIN AND PROFESSOR ELITES than the Students and the Taxpayers this would protect!! Add a return to Privatization of Student Loan Program (before Obama Federalized it).

* How could the Left OPPOSE what they’ve been clamoring for the last couple decades, but I/we would only agree to a/this TAX INCREASE if this limited, targeted, one-time, to kill two birds with one stone (solve the Loans issue, and punish the Left).

Well, of course, while I can say SOMEONE (Tom Cotton “Woke Endowment Security Tax Act”) is finally paying attention and taken one of my BRILLIANT IDEAS (and I do say so myself, if I don’t toot my own horn, who will? (like back when my Friend Thaddeus McCotter (Michigan, Livonia area) in U. S. House at the time (until he later disgraced himself in a Candidacy Petitions cheat (the same kind that Black Democrat John Conyers was caught in but a Liberal Judge Ordered him back onto the Ballot, for what others faced FRAUD Charges for and forced to leave Congress (but all you’ll ever see about the Conyers story was the “name” issue scrubbing the ILLEGAL SIGNATURES part of the story))) took my “The Party of kNOw” Talking-Point to the team and they used for a while to counter UpChuck Schumer’s “Party of NO” bullshit about GOP)), at least in-part, I have to point out/ask from the snippet above “Where the Hell have you been of late Marco?!?!?” We ousted McCarthy, must oust McConnel next.

And truth is this is not the first time he “borrowed” my idea, but we never really heard much about this from a year ago (still well after I suggested the Wealth-Tax on Endowments)…

VIDEO (9m 00s): Tom Cotton’s BASED bill will tax endowments to pay HS grads $9K to learn ON THE JOB (The Hill):

Yes, believe it or not, this is the end (LOL (yes, I know, I get too long winded far too often)) except to add we need more folks (average folks, like us) talking about doing this even though we normally oppose ANY Tax Increase (even one-timers) and of course not about CREDIT but that FINALLY maybe some of them are going to TAKE OUR IDEAS rather than their always SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY manure?!?!?! WE CAN FINALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE (even though these ideas will never see light-of-day of a Floor Vote until we have full-control of White-House, U. S. House, and U. S. Senate)?!?!

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About the Author: Joseph M. Lenard was a former writer for Super Simple Computer Enterprises, REDSTATE, Grassfire, and Rattle With Us – MI TEAParty (where he was Writing Committee Chair) and others. Joseph is a current content provider at Before It’s News and The Liberty Beacon. He is also the Author of: “Terror Strikes: Coming Soon to a City Near You”!

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