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The TPPF Take: There’s a new working-class coalition that is multi-racial, multi-ethnic and conservative.
“The new coalition rejects the premise of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, the grand critique of America, which says the U.S. is fundamentally racist and a real-life dystopia,” says TPPF’s Kevin Roberts. “They know better. It’s the country they or their parents or their grandparents came to, and in many cases, fled to. The America they experience is one of opportunity and freedom.”
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What to Know: A new report on TPPF’s lawsuit against the CDC on the evictions ban (Terkel) sums it up nicely: “If the result in the Association of Realtor’s case were likened to a ‘knockout punch’ of the CDC’s authority to issue an eviction moratorium, the result in Terkel would have to be compared to the Earth opening up and swallowing the entire boxing ring.”
The TPPF Take: TPPF by a knockout.
“TPPF’s Terkel lawsuit on appeal at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals squarely challenges the federal government’s power to do this under the Commerce Clause, which the trial court held the government could not,” says TPPF’s Robert Henneke. “TPPF’s case continues to resolve this important question of limits to the federal government’s power so that this disastrous eviction moratorium policy never happens again.”
What to Know: Austin ISD is threatening a big tax hike despite sitting on a mountain of federal funds and teaching fewer students.
The TPPF Take: This is naked government greed.
“Government-run schools are generally insatiable when it comes to taxpayer money; but Austin ISD’s latest bid to raise taxes is on another level,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “At the same time that district officials are planning to raise taxes on homeowners by $300 per year, it has $156 million in COVID-related money and its enrollment is in total freefall, having declined from 83,270 in 2016-17 to 75,075 in 2020-21. None of the facts on the ground support the district’s push for higher taxes.”