Memo to my fellow Republican members of Montgomery County
from Peter Huessy, President of Geo-Strategic Analysis
Great week for our country! Trump proposed no income tax on overtime pay and tips; and deduct interest you pay when buying or leasing a car. A tax trifecta! All the women wait staff on my favorite local restaurant are all going to vote for Donald Trump!! And Cackles? She said there is nothing that Biden has done over the past four years she would undo. But she said we have to turn the page and have a new direction.
Taxes: They are coming for your money
The article documents the frightening truth that under the proposed left-wing radical tax plan, half of all corporate profits will go directly to governments. This is because they plan to raise the corporate income tax to 33% (when adding state and local taxes) and the capital gains tax (a double-tax on corporate earnings) to 34%. Add it together and the shareholders receive less than 50% of the returns.
Leo Baeck, Berlin, 1935
Jews begin the observance of Yom Kippur at sundown tonight with the Kol Nidre prayer service. Ten years ago, our friend Rachel Paulose asked to join us at our service. Since then, she has regularly attended the service with us and joined my family when we break our fast, as she is doing again this year.
The first time around at services with us she pointed in our prayer book to an adaptation of the prayer composed by the reformist German Rabbi Leo Baeck for delivery in German synagogues during the Kol Nidre service on October 10, 1935. The prayer is incredibly timely today. I have previously posted the prayer and am taking the liberty of posting it again today, both for its intrinsic interest and its continuing relevance:
At this hour, the whole House of Israel stands before its God, the God of Justice and the God of Mercy. We shall examine our ways before Him. We shall examine what we have done and what we have failed to do; we shall examine where we have gone and where we have failed to go. Wherever we have sinned we will confess it: We will say “we have sinned” and we will pray with the will to repentance before the Lord and we will pray: “Lord forgive us!”
We stand before our God and with the same courage with which we have acknowledged our sins, the sins of the individual and the sins of the community, shall we express our abhorrence of the lie directed against us, and the slander of our faith and its expressions: this slander is far below us. We believe in our faith and our future. Who brought the world the secret of the Lord Everlasting, of the Lord Who is One? Who brought the world understanding for a life of purity, for the purity of the family? Who brought the world respect for Man made in the image of God? Who brought the world the commandment of justice, of social thought? In all these the spirit of the Prophets of Israel, the Revelation of God to the Jewish People had a part.
It sprang from our Judaism and continues to grow in it. All the slander drops away when it is cast against these facts.
We stand before our God: Our strength is in Him. In Him is the truth and the dignity of our history. In Him is the source of our survival through every change, our firm stand in all our trials. Our history is the history of spiritual greatness, spiritual dignity.
We turn to it when attack and insult are directed against us, when need and suffering press in upon us. The Lord led our fathers from generation to generation. He will continue to lead us and our children through our days.
We stand before our God; we draw strength from His Commandments, which we obey. We bow down before Him, and we stand upright before Men. Him we serve and remain steadfast in all the changes around us. We put our faith in Him in humility and our way ahead is clear, we see our future….
At the time he wrote and disseminated the prayer, Baeck was president of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, the official representative body of the Jews in Germany. The Gestapo discovered the text of the prayer and arrested Baeck. In Days of Sorrow and Pain, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Baeck, Leonard Baker writes that Gestapo officials showed up at some Yom Kippur services, especially in Berlin: “No count was ever made of how many rabbis read the prayer at the service; many did, so many that it was almost an act of collective defiance on the part of the German rabbinate.”
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California Dream’in Is Actually a California Nightmare
Our Maryland Democratic legislators say their plan is to be just like California. Well, tell your neighbors that 7/10 folks that live in the Bay area say living conditions are worsening and 46% want to leave, including a majority of the 76% who voted for Biden in 2020.
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A nearly unanimous 97% of those polled said homelessness was a major problem, with 83% also citing rising crime. That may explain why 70% of those surveyed are backing Proposition 36 next month. It would roll back decade-old criminal justice changes and raise penalties for theft and drug crimes.
But many people aren't waiting for things to change. After all, things may get worse. Another measure on the November state ballot would repeal a 30-year-old ban on letting cities impose rent control. That would exacerbate housing shortages.
So, it's no wonder a whopping 46% of respondents told the Mercury-News poll they were likely to leave the Bay Area in the next few years. The leading edge of that exodus has already been felt. The Bay Area's population has fallen by 3% since the COVID lockdowns.
The Fed Says the Economy is Great
7-11 just announced that they would shut over 400 stores. IKEA announced they were cutting prices due to lackluster sales. Bankruptcies just hit the second highest year to date in 13 years - and most of those were in consumer discretionary.
Core CPI rose to 3.3% yesterday, which was the fourth month of an increase. And 258,000 people filed for unemployment this week. This was well above the expectation of 230,000.
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Walz Refuses To State Support For Israel Taking Military Action Against Iran
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Walz Defends Giving Illegal Aliens Free College, Free Health Care, Drivers' Licenses
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Here are two interviews I did this year in New York Coty on one of the cable TV shows. On the threat from China and a review of the campaign to cripple the oil and gas industry.
The Threat of China
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eyytq00l1gb7ai8h5dk39/07.09.24_Chinese-Control-of-LA-Latin-America-and-Ocean-Commerce.mp4?rlkey=dbs1q2pp5m533vz75ig3lf1os&st=w7moz2kv&dl=0
Lawsuits Against the Oil and Gas Companies
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o36xxdxq3nkht7oqrp215/07.09.24_Lawsuits-Against-the-Oil-and-Gas-Co.mp4?rlkey=o9b60nhm3dy6z6q71likq10dd&st=2jja4r61&dl=0
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Peter Huessy is a Member of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee. Since 1981 he has been President of Geo-Strategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland. He was a former special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior and consultant to the US Air Force. He can be reached at [email protected]