Power to Destroy

Over two hundred years ago, Justice John Marshall and Daniel Webster came to the conclusion that "the power to tax is the power to destroy". After a tornado ravaged my hometown of Nashville and in the midst of his COVID plague extended lock down, Mayor John Cooper must want to finish Nashvillians off with his thirty-two percent property tax increase. I am not sure the citizens of Nashville will abide this despotism.

Nashville Punishes Taxpayers

My hometown of Nashville has just announced a thirty-two percent increase in property taxes. This is in the wake of a continuing forced closure of many businesses here that has lasted over a month and is not being ended by Mayor Cooper in spite of the fact our governor has opened most of the rest of our state as the COVID rates stabilize. The property owners are being forced to pay for the mismanagement of our city by those who continue to mismanage our city. At a time when some city workers continue to be paid while staying at home and not telecommuting, let municipal workers share our sacrifice with pay cuts and layoffs because a tax increase now on property owners who have been deprived of over a month of earning because of the Coronavirus lock down is tyranny!

The Corruption Chronicles

I do not know who is more corrupt, the mainstream media or the Democrat politicians. The media are baldfaced political partisans "resisting" our President. The Democrat politicians are self-serving, utterly venal Communists who support only the crony variety of capitalism that fills their wallets and the accounts of their largest backers. Both the dinosaur press and the mendacious Democrats would rather blame the innocent President Trump than the completely guilty Red Chinese leadership for the COVID crisis. I say the political flacks and the propagandist hacks are equally vitiated.

America's Elusive Recovery

COVID-19 may never be cured. A vaccine may never be developed. Even if treatments emerge for Coronavirus, we have already sustained such consequential economic damage that a depression is inevitable. If America elects Democrats on top of this to control the US Senate and replace President Trump, there will be no rebound in the economy for a generation. Even if the President is reelected and Republicans hold the Senate and retake the US House, we may well face misery on the scale of the Great Depression. President Trump gives us a better chance, even if it remains a slim chance, to avert the worst economy since the 1930s.

On Fear Itself

We are all going to die of something. Poverty kills. If you keep us locked in our homes away from our jobs and businesses, you will eventually kill us more surely than COVID-19 ever would. Most people survive the Novel Coronavirus, while economic depressions destroy whole nations and destabilize the world. Open America back up and let us, the citizenry decide the level of risk we are willing to accept. We are not fools or suicidal and we will comport ourselves accordingly.

Blame Red China

A Republican Party strategy document leaked that instructs GOP politicians that they should blame Communist China for what COVID-19 has wrought. That is precisely the right idea because China's lies enabled the disease to spread into a pandemic. It would be shocking dereliction not to fix blame where it belongs.

World's Greatest Salesman

Donald Trump is no doctor. Trump is a businessman and a good one, He also happens to be the greatest salesman in the world. The President sometimes wonders out loud, which produced his moronic conjecture about bleach, disinfectant, and ultraviolet light within the human body. The President should have known better, but he is no idiot and he listens to medical experts about COVID-19.