Asked if Trump believes in climate change, Perdue told CNN he hasn't talked about that issue with the President -- but speculated he's concerned about rain. "I think the President feels that I do, he's a golfer, so sometimes he knows he gets rained out and sometimes it doesn't, but the long term consequences, I don't know," Perdue said.

Wolfgang622 wrote:

traderdave wrote:Beto O'Rourke and his "war tax":

Non-military households would pay a "war tax" to help cover the health care of veterans of newly-authorized wars under a plan Beto O'Rourke's campaign unveiled Monday. Households making less than $30,000 per year would pay $25; those making less than $40,000 would pay $57; those making less than $50,000 would pay $98; those making less than $75,000 would pay $164; those making less than $100,000 would pay $270; those making less than $200,000 would pay $485; and those making more than $200,000 would pay $1,000.

I am all for supporting our veterans as much as needed but don't we already pay taxes to support them? How about creating an efficient and effective VA first.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/politics ... index.html

What kind of a society assesses a “war tax”?

What kind of a candidate thinks of one?

Gimpy wrote:I think a large driver of it is making war less popular

TenuredVulture wrote:If that is the point, then I think Charles Rangel's bill to reinstate the draft is much more effective rhetorically. I know that no Presidential Candidate would actually do this, but that kind of is the problem with Beto. What he's doing amounts to "I think there should be shared sacrifice in wartime, but not too much, and really, most of it is going to affect other people".

traderdave wrote:I want to make sure I am following what is being written. The general consensus above seems to imply that Beto is not so much trying to help veterans as to teach the American public a lesson about the costs of war. Am I misreading what y'all are saying?

Gimpy wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:If that is the point, then I think Charles Rangel's bill to reinstate the draft is much more effective rhetorically. I know that no Presidential Candidate would actually do this, but that kind of is the problem with Beto. What he's doing amounts to "I think there should be shared sacrifice in wartime, but not too much, and really, most of it is going to affect other people".

A draft wouldn’t impact the older folks at all. A tax would.

James Uthmeier, a former top adviser to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told congressional investigators that he spoke to a professor who has advocated for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census to limit the participation of illegal immigrants, but refused to answer more than 100 questions from panel staff on advice of Commerce Department lawyers, according to testimony released Tuesday.

The lawyers instructed Uthmeier not to discuss a secret memo he wrote about the citizenship question at the direction of Ross to the Justice Department.