Category Archives: Business, Industry and Finance

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Environmental Alert: Illegal Pot Farm’s Create Toxic Waste – A Case for Legalization?

Posted on Monday, August 7, 2017 by Post Scripts

RHT447 brings the troubling story of toxic pot pollution in our forests to our attention. Did the story in Reuters grab your attention over the weekend? if not, here’s the scoop: Growers use fertilizers and pesticides long restricted or banned … Continue reading →

Hearing Footsteps Republicans? Democrats to Unveil a “Better Deal Economic Agenda” Monday

Posted on Sunday, July 23, 2017 by Post Scripts

UPDATE: The Hill reports, “Schumer: Dems, not Russia, are to blame for loss to Trump”: “When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things – [James] Comey, Russia – you blame yourself,” Schumer said … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance | 9 Comments

Infratsructure: Trump Exposes Expensive Pointless Regulation

Posted on Monday, June 12, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina In a meeting last week on infrastructure planning President Trump dropped binders of regulations on the stage to make a point. The binders represented an environmental assessment report that cost taxpayers $24,000 per page and delayed projects … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance | 2 Comments

Scott Pruit (EPA) Favors a Climate Science Challenge

Posted on Friday, June 9, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency is a level headed guy who brings calm and reason to the ongoing cage fight about Global Warming/Climate Change. Instead of choosing a side or adopting a political stance … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance, Education, Environment | 13 Comments

House Passes Bill to Repeal Dodd-Frank

Posted on Friday, June 9, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina While the nation’s attention was fixated on Comey the House of Representatives passed a bill that repeals Dodd-Frank, legislation that has met none of it’s high toned promises but severly harmed small banks: Dodd-Frank’s 22,000 pages of … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance | 4 Comments

Silicon Valley Elitists- Let’s Give “Universal Basic Income” a Try

Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina They may have genius, in a liberal nerdy kinda way, but they sure as hell can’t think straight when it comes to individual human beings living in America. I’m talking about Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg who recently … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance, Constitution and Law | 10 Comments

Sorry to Harp – Connecticut Story a Lesson in the False Hope of High Tax Rates

Posted on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina Twenty five years ago the state of Connecticut decided the implementation of a state income tax would solve it’s budget and debt woes. The state’s citizen’s assumed that legislators would use the money taken from their paychecks … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance, Constitution and Law | 10 Comments

Jefferson: CA Increase in Gas Tax Explained

Posted on Monday, May 1, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina Our friends over at the State of Jefferson project got to wondering what California lawmakers really had in mind when they passed an increase in gasoline taxes. They consulted with Jon Coupal from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance | 12 Comments

Correspondence Dinner “Strange”

Posted on Monday, May 1, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina The annual correspondence Dinner was held in Washington over the weekend. It was like no other in modern history. The President didn’t attend. Instead he held a huge rally in Pennsylvania to a crowd of 10 thousand. … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Industry and Finance | 6 Comments

Economy Remains Sluggish – Q1 Growth Rate a Miserable .7%

Posted on Friday, April 28, 2017 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina The first quarter of 2017 reflects the inaction of Congress to fulfill their promise to lower tax rates and get our economy moving again. The miserable .7% growth, the weakest in three years, cannot be blamed on … Continue reading →