28. Avie Schneider, “U.S. Unemployment Rate Drops To 3.7 Percent, Lowest in Nearly 50 Years,” NPR, October 5, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/10/05/654417887/u-s-unemployment-rate-drops-to-3-7-percent-lowest-in-nearly-50-years.
29. Stephen Moore, “Why the Left Hates Prosperity,” Washington Times, October 28, 2018.
30. Phillip W. Magness, “The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent,” American Institute for Economic Research, January 7, 2019, https://www.aier.org/article/rich-never-actually-paid-70-percent.
31. Magness, “The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent.”
32. Ibid.
33. Jim Powell, “Two of The All-Time Greatest Successes In Cutting Taxes and Spending,” Forbes, August 10, 2011.
34. Adam Michel, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes Drastically. Here’s Why It Would Backfire,” Daily Signal, January 8, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-to-raise-taxes-drastically-heres-why-it-would-backfire/.
35. Brian Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill,” Vox, August 7, 2018, https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/8/7/17658574/democratic-socialism-cost-medicare-college-sanders-deficits-taxes.
36. Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill.”
37. Brian Riedl, “Why 70 Percent Tax Rates Cannot Finance Socialism,” National Review, January 8, 2019.
38. Paul Krugman, “The Economics of Soaking the Rich,” New York Times, January 5, 2019.
39. William L. Anderson, “Paul Krugman’s Conversion to a 70-Percent Income Tax,” Mises Institute, January 15, 2019, https://mises.org/wire/paul-krugmans-conversion-70-percent-income-tax-0.
40. Daniel J. Mitchell, “The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates,” The Heritage Foundation, July 19, 1996, https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/the-historical-lessons-lower-tax-rates-0.
41. Mitchell, “The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates.”
42. Adam Michel, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes Drastically. Here’s Why It Would Backfire,” Daily Signal, January 8, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-to-raise-taxes-drastically-heres-why-it-would-backfire/.
43. Christine Goss, “The Job Guarantee Rests on the Lie That People Can Escape Insecurity,” The Federalist, February 12, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/12/green-new-deals-job-guarantee-rests-lie-people-can-escape-risk/.
44. Benjy Sarlin, “Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Tax the Super-Rich Has Been Tried Before. Here’s What Happened,” NBC News, January 29, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/elizabeth-warren-s-plan-tax-super-rich-has-been-tried-n963971.
45. Sarlin, “Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Tax the Super-Rich Has Been Tried Before.”
46. Aparna Mathur, Abby McCloskey, “Universal Child Care Is the Wrong Approach,” AEI, February 22, 2019, http://www.aei.org/publication/universal-child-care-is-the-wrong-approach/.
47. Jeff Stein, “Sen. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Universal Child Care, Paid for By Tax on Ultra-Millionaiers,” Washington Post, February 19, 2019.
48. Andrew Wilford, “WILFORD: Sanders Just Dropped Another Confiscatory Tax Proposal,” Daily Caller, February 2, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/02/wilford-sanders-tax/.
49. Demian Brady, “Issue Brief: Death and a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Compliance Burden of the Estate Tax,” National Taxpayers Union Foundation, October 26, 2017, https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/death-and-a-thousand-paper-cuts-the-compliance-burden-of-the-estate-tax.
50. Andrew O’Reilly, “Sanders Calls for Wiping Out $1.6 Trillion in Student Debt by Taxing Wall Street,” Fox News, June 24, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-unveils-plan-to-eliminate-1-6-trillion-in-student-debt-by-taxing-wall-street-banks.
51. Tom Precious, “ ‘Serious as a Heart Attack’: Cuomo Warns of Falling State Revenue,” Buffalo News, February 4, 2019.
52. Brad Slager, “Andrew Cuomo Announces Loss of Billions in Tax Revenue, Looks for Others To Blame,” RedState, February 9, 2019, https://www.redstate.com/bradslager/2019/02/09/andrew-cuomo-announces-loss-of-billions-in-tax-revenue-looks-for-others-to-blame/.
53. Victor Davis Hanson, “California’s Rendezvous with Reality,” Townhall, February 28, 2019, https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/02/28/californias-rendezvous-with-reality-n2542316.
54. “The Impact of A $15 Minimum Wage,” Employment Policies Institute, January 2019.
55. Rachel Greszler, “Lawmakers Are Pushing a $15 Minimum Wage. Here Are 3 Disastrous Consequences That Would Result,” Daily Signal, January 17, 2019.
56. James Sherk, “Raising Minimum Starting Wages to $15 per Hour Would Eliminate Seven Million Jobs,” The Heritage Foundation, July 26, 2016.
57. “The Impact of A $15 Minimum Wage,” Employment Policies Institute, January 2019, https://www.epionline.org/studies/the-impact-of-a-15-minimum-wage/.
58. Rachel Greszler, “Lawmakers Are Pushing a $15 Minimum Wage. Here Are 3 Disastrous Consequences That Would Result,” Daily Signal, January 17, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/17/lawmakers-are-pushing-a-15-minimum-wage-here-are-3-disastrous-consequences-that-would-result/.
59. Greszler, “Lawmakers Are Pushing a $15 Minimum Wage.”
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Betsy McCaughey, “Maxine Waters Means Nightmares for Wall Street, Suburbs,” New York Post, January 22, 2019.
63. Press Release, “Waters Statement at Historic Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee Hearing,” U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, February 28, 2019.
64. Carlos Garcia, “WaPo Blames San Francisco’s Problems on Capitalism – And Gets Ridiculed Ruthlessly on Social Media,” The Blaze, May 22, 2019, https://www.theblaze.com/news/san-francisco-blames-capitalism.
65. Wesley J. Smith, “Medicare-for-All’s Bitter Pill,” National Review, March 11, 2019.
66. “Medicare for All Act of 2019,” 116th Congress, 1st Session, Jayapal.house.gov.
67. This analysis was of the earlier plan by Bernie Sanders, but the same would hold true of this current plan. Haeyoun Park and Margot Sanger-Katz, “How Medicare for All Would Affect You,” New York Times, September 14, 2017.
68. “Medicare for All Act of 2019,” 116th Congress, 1st Session, jayapal.house.gov.
69. Wesley J. Smith, “Medicare-for-All’s Bitter Pill,” National Review, March 11, 2019.
70. “Medicare for All Act of 2019,” 116th Congress, 1st Session, Jayapal.house.gov
71. The 2018 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees, “Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds,” June 5, 2018; Steven T. Mnuchin and other Trustees, “Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs,” Social Security Administration, 2018.
72. Fred Lucas, “Trump’s 2020 Budget Seeks More Border Wall Funding, Work Requirements for Welfare,” Daily Signal, March 11, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/11/trumps-2020-budget-seeks-more-border-wall-funding-work-requirements-for-welfare/.
73. Fred Lucas, “Bernie Sanders Says ‘Many Thousands’ Will Die as Budget Chief Predicts Stronger Medicare,” Daily Signal, March 13, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/13/bernie-sanders-says-many-thousands-will-die-as-budget-chief-predicts-stronger-medicare/.
74. Lucas, “Bernie Sanders Says ‘Many Thousands’ Will Die.”
75. Steven T. Mnuchin and other Trustees, “Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs,” Social Security Administration, 2018.
76. Berkeley Lovelace Jr., “Trump Presidency Smacks Down the “New Normal” of 2% Growth, Top House Tax Writer Brady Says,” CNBC, January 31, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/trump-smacks-down-new-normal-of-2-percent-growth-says-rep-kevin-brady.html.
77. George F. Will, “Is Anemic Growth the New Normal?” Washington Post, July 8, 2016.
78. Kevin Hoffman, “Roskam Says Obama Admin the First to Never Top 3% In Annual GDP Growth,” P
olitifact, March 16, 2017, https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2017/mar/16/peter-roskam/rep-roskam-gdp-growth-obama/.
79. Frank Hill, “Hill: 2% Real GDP Growth Is Not ‘the New Normal,’ ” North State Journal, August 1, 2018; Genevieve Wood, “State of the Union 2019: The Trump Economy is a Success Story Not Even His Harshest Critics Can Deny,” Fox News, January 29, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/state-of-the-union-2019-the-trump-economy-is-a-success-story-not-even-his-harshest-critics-can-deny.
80. Louis Woodhill, “Barack Obama’s Sad Record on Economic Growth,” RealClearMarkets, February 1, 2016, https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2016/02/01/barack_obamas_sad_record_on_economic_growth_101987.html.
81. S. Noble, “Obama’s Legacy: US Will Never Again See .3% Growth,” Independent Sentinel, April 18, 2016, https://www.independentsentinel.com/obamas-legacy-us-will-never-again-see-3-growth/.
82. Michael Hiltzik, “If Trump Thinks He Can Get More Than 3% Economic Growth, He’s Dreaming,” Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2017.
83. Hiltzik, “If Trump Thinks He Can Get More Than 3% Economic Growth, He’s Dreaming.”
84. Anthony B. Kim, “Under Trump, US Economic Freedom Rises Significantly,” Daily Signal, January 25, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/25/under-trump-us-economic-freedom-has-risen-significantly/.
85. “An Analysis of Trump’s Policy Proposals in State of the Union Address,” The Heritage Foundation, February 6, 2019, https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/analysis-trumps-policy-proposals-state-the-union-address.
86. David Urban, “David Urban: Trump Has Kept His Promise to Revive Manufacturing,” TribLive, August 17, 2019, https://triblive.com/opinion/david-urban-trump-has-kept-his-promise-to-revive-manufacturing/.
87. “2019 Index of Economic Freedom,” The Heritage Foundation, 2019, https://www.heritage.org/index/about.
88. “An Analysis of Trump’s Policy Proposals in State of the Union Address,” The Heritage Foundation, February 6, 2019.
89. Ibid.
90. “United States Labor Force Participation Rate,” Trading Economics, January 2019, https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-participation-rate; Andy Puzder, “Labor Market Is Thriving Far Better Under Trump Than Under Obama,” The Hill, October 9, 2017.
91. Cockburn, “Jeremy Corbyn’s Strange Flirtations with the American Left,” Spectator USA, February 4, 2019.
92. Dominic Green, “Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Corbyn,” Spectator USA, February 4, 2019.
93. Green, “Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Corbyn.”
94. Cockburn, “Jeremy Corbyn’s Strange Flirtations with the American Left.”
95. David Weigel, “Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn: I Got My Ideas from Bernie Sanders,” Washington Post, July 13, 2017.
96. Green, “Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Corbyn.”
97. Georgi Boorman, “Women’s March Refusal to Condemn Racism Eviscerates Intersectionalism,” The Federalist, January 16, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/16/womens-march-founder-tamika-mallory-wont-condemn-anti-semitism/.
98. Ryan Saavedra, “Linda Sarsour Calls for People to Stop ‘Humanizing’ Jews,” Daily Wire, September 8, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/35631/linda-sarsour-calls-dehumanization-jews-report-ryan-saavedra.
99. Hank Berrien, “Report: First Time Women’s March Leaders Met, Two Leaders Asserted Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories,” Daily Wire, December 10, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/39245/report-first-time-womens-march-leaders-met-two-hank-berrien.
100. Berrien, “Report: First Time Women’s March Leaders Met, Two Leaders Asserted Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories.”
101. Matt Vespa, “She Said What? Ilhan Omar Has Anti-Semitism Trouble Again,” Townhall, March 4, 2019, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/04/ilhan-omar-has-antisemitism-trouble-again-n2542514.
102. Tom Elliott, “Rep. Ilan Omar Uses Holocaust Remembrance Day to Downplay Holocaust,” Grabien News, January 27, 2019, https://news.grabien.com/story-rep-ilan-omar-uses-holocaust-remembrance-day-downplay-holoca.
103. Farley Weiss, “Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Should’ve Been Punished for Their Anti-Semitism,” USA Today, March 13, 2019.
104. Tom Elliot, “Rep. Ilhan Omar Goes on Anti-Semitic Twitter Rampage; Advocacy Group Demands Apology,” Grabien News, February 10, 2019, https://news.grabien.com/story-rep-ilhan-omar-goes-anti-semitic-twitter-rampage.
105. Elliot, “Rep. Ilhan Omar Goes on Anti-Semitic Twitter Rampage.”
106. David Harsanyi, “The Democrats’ Anti-Semitism Problem Isn’t Going Away,” The Federalist, February 12, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/11/democrats-anti-semitism-problem-isnt-going-away/.
107. Harsanyi, “The Democrats’ Anti-Semitism Problem Isn’t Going Away.”
108. Weiss, “Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Should’ve Been Punished for Their Anti-Semitism.”
109. “Trump: Congresswoman Omar’s Apology for Israel Remark ‘Lame,’ ” Philadelphia Tribune, February 13, 2019.
110. Mike Brest, “Mike Pence Condemns Rep. Omar for pushing ‘Anti-Semitic Tropes,’ ” Daily Caller, February 12, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/12/pence-omar-anti-semitism/.
111. Khorri Atkinson, “Ilhan Omar Reignites Anti-Semitism Controversy in Exchange with Top House Dem,” Axios, March 3, 2019, https://www.axios.com/ilhan-omar-anti-semitism-nita-lowey-6ff9eb97-b3e4-4274-b472-b5bd5c455167.html.
112. Vespa, “She Said What!? Ilhan Omar Has Anti-Semitism Trouble Again.”
113. Courtney O’Brien, “Resolution Against Anti-Semitism Delayed Because Dems Want it Expanded to Include This,” Townhall, March 5, 2019, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/03/05/resolution-against-antisemitism-delayed-because-n2542652.
114. Matt Vespa, “Fireworks: House Dems Have ‘Full-Scale Brawl’ Over Resolution That Indirectly Rebukes Ilhan Omar’s Reported Anti-Semitism,” Townhall, March 6, 2019, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/06/fireworks-house-dems-blow-up-over-resolution-that-indirectly-rebukes-ilhan-omar-n2542701.
115. William Cummings and Christal Hayes, “House Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution Condemning Hate After Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Comments,” USA Today, March 7, 2019.
116. Steve Postal, “Omar, Tlaib, and Anti-Semitism,” American Thinker, March 6, 2019, https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/omar_tlaib_and_antisemitism.html.
117. Thomas Lifson, “House Dems Just Can’t Bring Themselves to Condemn AntiSemitism,” American Thinker, March 6, 2019, https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/house_dems_just_cant_bring_themselves_to_condemn_antisemitism.html.
118. William Cummings and Christal Hayes, “House Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution Condemning Hate After Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Comments,” USA Today, March 7, 2019.
119. Matt Vespa, “He Went There: Top Democrat Downplays Holocaust Survivors to Defend Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitic Antics,” Townhall, March 7, 2019, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/07/top-dem-defends-omars-anti-semitic-antics-her-experience-is-more-personal-than-n2542755.
120. Michael Goodwin, “Dems Have Only Themselves to Blame for Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitic Comments,” New York Post, March 6, 2019.
121. Alex Shepherd, “Trump’s Attack on Socialism Is a Colossal Blunder,” New Republic, February 19, 2019.
CHAPTER TEN
1. Rodney Hawkins, “Biden Tells African-American Audience GOP Ticket Would Put Them ‘Back in Chains,’ ” CBS News, August 14, 2012, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/.
2. David Catron, “Mississippi Rejects Democrat Race-Baiting,” The American Spectator, November 28, 2018, https://spectator.org/mississippi-rejects-democrat-race-baiting/.
3. Salena Zito, “America Needs A Good Laugh,” Washington Examiner, December 16, 2018.
4. Domenico Montanaro, “Warning to Democrats: Most Americans against U.S. Getting More Politically Correct,” NPR, December 19, 2018, https://www.np
r.org/2018/12/19/677346260/warning-to-democrats-most-americans-against-u-s-getting-more-politically-correct.
5. Virginia Kruta, “Booker Campaign Calls for Cancellation of Trump Rally—‘A Breeding Ground for Racism,’ ” Daily Caller, August 6, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/06/booker-campaign-call-end-trump-rallies/.
6. CBS Austin Staff, “Austin Boy Called ‘Little Hitler’ after Selling Hot Cocoa to Raise Money for Border Wall,” KATU 2, February 18, 2019, https://katu.com/news/nation-world/austin-boy-called-little-hitler-after-selling-hot-cocoa-to-raise-money-for-border-wall.
7. Jenna Amatulli, “Jane Curtin: ‘My New Year’s Resolution Is to Make Sure the Republican Party Dies,’ ” HuffPost, January 1, 2019, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jane-curtin-new-years-resolution-republican-party_n_5c2b9348e4b05c88b70366cc.
8. Nick Givas, “Washington Post Columnist Warns of Need to ‘Burn Down the Republican Party’ to Wipe Out Trump Supporters,” Fox News, August 26,2016, https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-republican-party-2020-burn-down.
9. Todd Starnes, “UC Davis Students Protest Photo of Slain Police Officer Holding Blue Lives Matter Flag,” Fox News, January 13, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-uc-davis-students-protest-photo-of-slain-police-officer-holding-blue-lives-matter-flag.
10. Hank Berrien, “CNN Bashes Troops Who Support Trump. Sarah Sanders Fires Back,” Daily Wire, December 27, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/39727/cnn-bashes-troops-who-support-trump-sarah-sanders-hank-berrien.
11. Souad Mekhennet and Greg Miller, “Jamal Khashoggi’s Final Months in Exile in the Long Shadow of Saudi Arabia,” Washington Post, December 22, 2018.
12. David Rutz, “Brzezinski Blasts Pompeo over Response to Khashoggi Murder: He’s Like a ‘Wannabe Dictator’s Buttboy,’ ” Washington Free Beacon, December 12, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/politics/brzezinski-blasts-pompeo-over-response-to-khashoggi-murder-hes-acting-like-a-dictators-buttboy/.
13. Michelangelo Signorile, “Homophobia Isn’t Funny, So Why Do Liberal Comics Keep Using It?” HuffPost, August 14, 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-casual-homophobia-comedy-trump-jokes_n_5b698a50e4b0de86f4a5143d.
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