An Evil Philosophy, Apprentice Power & Florida’s Taxing Situation - Top 3 Takeaways – June 3rd, 2025 - Driven By Braman Motorcars
Takeaway #1: This is a philosophy built on evil
This is what happens when we don’t do anything about it. Those were the words Florida Congressman Randy Fine had to offer yesterday in discussing Sunday’s antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado. Fine also had this to say: The entire Palestinian cause is a lie… The entire justification of the cause is to eradicate Israel and to exterminate Jews. Sharp words for sure, but extremely accurate words as well. After all, the chant “from the River to the Sea” literally calls for that very thing. Oh, that and Islam generally but especially when practiced by the terrorist organization Hamas, which lest one forget is the elected leader of the so-called Palestinian people, which stated this in their charter: Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. '[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Again, this isn’t anything new. It’s stated in their charter. All that’s new is that an Egyptian illegal immigrant Islamic terrorist, threw explosives at Jews and set them on fire with a flame thrower in Boulder. All that’s new is that a godless, soulless and slanderous news media establishment has gone out of its way to portray as an “El Paso County man”. You know, just like that “Maryland man” in the news not so long ago. So, about that, Fine also had this to say: President Trump needs the resources to round up and deport every single illegal immigrant, everyone – number one, starting with the family of Mohamed, who's sitting at home illegally in Colorado right now. Fine’s right, passing the OBBB is the key to President Trump having the resources he needs to meaningfully work to begin to deport what the Biden administration illegally allowed in the door. Did you know that according to the House Judiciary Committee under the Biden administration U.S. Border Patrol encountered nearly 1,000 individuals on the terror watchlist at the southwest border, with at least 99 of them released into the U.S. by Biden’s Homeland Security Agency? And that number didn’t include people like “the Maryland man” or our “El Paso dude”. This situation is a reminder of the importance for President Trump to be able to carry out his deportation agenda which is accounted for in the OBBB. Because here’s a fact, if President Trump had already been able to carry out mass deportations – this terrorist illegal immigrant wouldn’t have been around to do what he did on Sunday. And he serves as a reminder of how many other known terrorists were allowed in here in addition to the potential terrorists in waiting. Everday that Joe Biden was president of the United States every American was made to be less safe. Every day that Donald Trump is president of the United States – we live in a safer place but the pace of progress and restoring more safety is dependent upon two things – the courts that through judicial interference have slowed the deportation agenda and the OBBB, that contains the critically needed funding.
Takeaway #2: Should the most powerful person in the world be allowed to fire who he wants to fire?
You don’t need to be a constitutional law expert to know that it’s bat crap crazy stupid for Donald Trump to seemingly have had more authority to fire employees while filming The Apprentice, then he does as president of the United States – but judicial overreach has effectively made it that way. It’s now been 134 days that Donald Trump has been back in office and there are now 251 lawsuits that have been filed against him and his administration – with 241 outstanding. One of the many suits seeks to stop the president from firing people that work for him, in the executive branch. On Monday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal, to immediately step in to allow the president to do what he was elected to do and has every right to do. Right size the federal government. In the appeal, the administration said that lower court rulings continue to: interfere with the executive branch’s internal operations and unquestioned legal authority to plan and carry out RIFs. To date the administration has carried out 58,000 federal government layoffs and issued 76,000 employee buyouts but has had an additional 148,000 planned RIFs held up by the courts indefinitely. In other words, to date, the most powerful man in the world has only been able to fire less than half of the people working for him that he’s tried to fire. It’s hard to communicate how truly absurd and post-constitutional that notion is. Assuming the Supreme Court allows the President to do what he should be allowed to due 12% of federal government employees Trump inherited will be DOGEd.
Takeaway #3: What kind of tax cuts do you want there to be?
Today the Florida legislature finally gets back together for the purpose of doing the only thing they’re compelled to do (but the one thing they haven’t done), pass a budget. The word is that there’s a framework agreement between the state House and Senate that combines a mix of the DeSantis-Senate priorities with the House’s/Speaker Perez’s priorities. Specifically, in question is what kind of tax relief will we see? Will there be tax holidays? Will there be a permanent decrease to the state sales tax? Will there be property tax relief? These are the questions that should quickly come into focus this week.