Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) desires everybody to know that he's not “woke” ― as if anybody would have thought he was.
In his 10-minute speech to the conservative Heritage Basis in Washington on Thursday, Scott saved saying the phrase “woke” in that very same cringeworthy means some persons are nonetheless utilizing “da bomb.” (You realize who you're.)
“People in flyover nation have had completely sufficient of this woke elitist nonsense.”
“The woke left desires all of that gone. They need to finish the American experiment. They need to change freedom with management.”
“Democrats know they will’t win with their loopy woke concepts.”
“They’re going to say I’m not woke sufficient, and I’m not critical.”
For what it’s value, nobody goes to say Scott will not be woke sufficient, as a result of anybody who might be thought-about woke ― i.e., somebody who cares about injustice and inequality ― seemingly isn’t utilizing that phrase anymore.
However certainly, Scott may face some questions on how critical he's.
“We survived the Battle of 1812, World Battle I, World Battle II, Korea, Vietnam and the Chilly Battle. However now at this time we face the best hazard we’ve ever confronted. The militant left wing in our nation has change into the enemy inside,” Scott stated.
The nation has heard this tune earlier than; Scott’s warnings about “socialism” aren’t new. He cited inflation, the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, “left-wing indoctrination of youngsters in public faculties” and “homicide in our communities” as proof of President Joe Biden’s embrace of left-wing values.
“Is that this the start of the tip of America?” Scott questioned.
Conveniently, he has a plan to verify it isn’t.
In February, Scott launched his 11-point plan detailing his imaginative and prescient for the GOP’s agenda ought to it win again the bulk. The primary level to “rescue America” is ensuring youngsters say the Pledge of Allegiance in class. Yass! Nation saved.
Different factors within the plan embody constructing the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and naming it after Donald Trump, implementing time period limits for members of Congress, believing in science, and defending “the integrity of American Democracy.”
This plan comes from a person who backed Trump’s huge lie and voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcomes.
Scott is chair of the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee, charged with serving to the GOP take again management of the Senate on this yr’s elections. He has stated his plan will not be an official NRSC doc.
“The American persons are going to ship an entire butt-kicking to the Democrats this November,” he predicted Thursday.
The coverage prescription that has obtained maybe essentially the most consideration, nonetheless, is the one about taxes: “All People ought to pay some revenue tax to have pores and skin within the sport, even when a small quantity. At the moment over half of People pay no revenue tax.”
Everybody who works a payroll job pays federal taxes, however the lowest-income People usually don’t owe revenue taxes. And hundreds of thousands obtain funds from the IRS due to refundable tax credit just like the earned revenue tax credit score or the kid tax credit score.
The nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Financial Coverage discovered that Scott’s plan “would improve taxes by greater than $1,000 on common for the poorest 40 p.c of People.” Moreover, in accordance with ITEP’s evaluation, the states hit hardest would largely be purple states within the South ― in addition to Scott’s personal state of Florida.
Scott has dismissed the criticism that his plan would increase taxes, saying it was only a Democratic try to smear him ― a degree that he reiterated Thursday.
“The Democrats are mendacity in regards to the plan, and we’ve received Republicans which are parroting what they’re saying,” he stated.
Scott by no means actually stated how folks have been unsuitable, as an alternative launching right into a protection of the thought of constructing positive everybody pays revenue taxes (i.e., elevating taxes on some folks).
“They’re able-bodied, however they don’t need to work and so they discovered the best way to get on a authorities program. That’s unsuitable,” he stated.
Scott tried the same protection on “Fox Information Sunday” this previous week, calling the criticism “Democratic speaking factors.”
“However, senator, grasp on. It’s not a Democratic speaking level. It’s within the plan,” replied host John Roberts.
Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has distanced himself from Scott’s plan and dismissed it as irrelevant.
“If we’re lucky sufficient to have the bulk subsequent yr, I’ll be the bulk chief. I’ll determine in session with my members what to placed on the ground,” McConnell advised reporters March 1. “Let me let you know what wouldn't be part of our agenda: We is not going to have as a part of our agenda a invoice that raises taxes on half the American folks and sunsets Social Safety and Medicare inside 5 years.”
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