North Dakota Democrats Buy Ads Discouraging Hunters From Voting

The North Dakota arm of the Democratic Party is running ads on Facebook discouraging hunters from turning out to vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

'“ATTENTION HUNTERS: If you vote in North Dakota, you may forfeit hunting licenses you have in other states. If you want to keep your out-of-state hunting licenses, you may not want to vote in North Dakota,” read the pair of ads.

The state party ran the ads under a Facebook page titled “Hunter Alerts,” Facebook’s ad archive shows. The “Hunter Alerts” page was created Wednesday, a day before the ads appeared on Facebook. North Dakota political blogger Rob Port first noted the ads, and said he had never heard of hunters ever losing their licenses after voting in North Dakota. A spokesman for North Dakota Gaming and Fish told Port the same: “We’ve never heard of that.”

The ad discouraging voting comes as North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp trails Republican challenger Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota U.S. representative, in her bid for re-election. Heitkamp, whose campaign has made several gaffes in the final stretches of the race, transferred $2.7 million from her campaign to the state party last week. North Dakota GOP communications director Jake Wilkins slammed Heitkamp for her party’s efforts to discourage hunters from voting.

“Heidi Heitkamp is using her anti-Kavanaugh campaign coffers to suppress voter turnout in North Dakota,” Wilkins told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. “On the day she’s starting her de-facto farewell tour, Heitkamp is making it clear to voters that she only cares about winning re-election, not helping her constituents.” Neither the state party nor the Heitkamp campaign returned requests for comment on the ads.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/01/north-dakota-democrats-facebook-ad-hunters/

Black Leadership Group: CNN Must Put ‘Own House In Order’ After Don Lemon Said ‘White Men’ Are US’s ‘Biggest Terror Threat

Project 21, a black leadership network, issued a statement Thursday calling on CNN President Jeff Zucker to address host Don Lemon’s inflammatory comments calling white men the “biggest terror threat” in America.

The statement, from Project 21 co-chairs Stacy Washington, Horace Cooper, and Bishop Council Nedd II, reads: Within a space of five seconds, CNN’s Don Lemon went from saying we shouldn’t demonize people to broadly labeling white men as our nation’s ‘biggest terror threat.’ That’s not responsible journalism. This cannot stand. CNN President Jeff Zucker recently called out the White House for its criticism of the media, saying President Trump doesn’t comprehend the importance of the words he uses. It’s time for Zucker to put his own house in order – starting with explaining how Don Lemon’s outrageous statement can stand in light of Zucker’s call for civility.

Project 21 is a 25-year-old black leadership network sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a “free-market, independent conservative think-tank.” “So we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them,” Lemon said on Monday during an appearance on “Chris Cuomo Primetime.” “There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on… they had the Muslim ban, there is no white guy ban. What do we do about that?” Lemon continued

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson also criticized Lemon’s comments during a Thursday appearance on “Fox & Friends.” “You know, we have a history of dividing people into different segments and that has caused a lot of problems in the past,” said Carson. “And we’ve paid big prices for that. But let’s don’t (sic) sweep it under the rug. Let’s acknowledge it, but let’s learn from it and move in a positive direction, not a negative direction.” Lemon doubled-down on his comments Wednesday night by citing statistics on murders committed by far-right extremists.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/01/project-21-activists-cnn-don-lemon-racial-comments/

>>3690848

Shocking as well, the Democrat party there better be looking over their shoulders for the FEDs.. Isn't this interfering in an election? a federal offense, but I digress.

Leading US Tech Firms Reap Hundreds Of Millions In Tax Breaks For Hiring Foreign College Grads

Several leading U.S. tech firms receive millions in tax breaks every year thanks to a little-known program for foreign college graduates. The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows certain foreign graduates of U.S. universities to work for up to three years, during which time their employers do not have to pay payroll taxes on their wages. America’s most profitable tech firms, including Amazon, Intel and Google, are heavy employers of OPT participants.

Many of America’s most prominent and profitable tech firms receive multi-million dollar tax subsidies for hiring foreign graduates of U.S. universities, according to an analysis published Wednesday. The report from the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that advocates lower levels of immigration, identified more than $150 million in tax payments that U.S. companies avoided in 2017 thanks to a little-known program known as Optional Practical Training (OPT).

OPT is a George W. Bush administration addition to the F-1 student visa that allows foreign graduates to work in the U.S. for up to 12 months after graduation — with a 24-month extension if the graduate works in a STEM field. Under U.S. tax law, employers of OPT participants do not have to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes on the wages earned by those foreign graduates. That payroll tax exemption, which has no direct congressional authorization, does not apply to recent American college graduates.

For 2017, the biggest employers of OPT enrollees were household names in tech and consulting sectors. Number one was Amazon, which employed 7,700 OPT students and recent graduates for an estimated tax subsidy of $27.6 million, according to the CIS report. A payroll tax exemption on OPT employees was just one of many federal tax breaks Amazon — one of the world’s richest companies by market cap — received in 2017. The company famously paid no income tax on $5.6 billion in profits that year.

Other heavy users of OPT labor include Intel, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, which employed a total of 11,543 participants and received a combined payroll tax subsidy of $40.5 million, according to CIS. Overall, the 22 largest employers of OPT participants saved $155.8 in payroll taxes they would have had to pay if they had hired Americans for those positions instead.

Universities in the U.S. generally support the OPT program because it helps in recruiting foreign students, who pay full tuition costs. Rising participation in OPT has driven the overall foreign student population to a record high of 1.08 million — even as first-time, international-student enrollment declined by about 10,000 in the 2016-2017 school year, according to a November 2017 report from the Institute for International Education.

Some labor policy experts argue the OPT subsidy amounts to a hidden incentive for U.S. firms to hire foreign students over recent American college grads. Because U.S. companies are not liable for payroll taxes for OPT employees, they might be less inclined to hire an equally qualified American grad who does not get the subsidy, says David North, the author of the CIS report. “The employers benefiting from the subsidies directly, and universities benefiting indirectly, know all about the program, which is all but unknown to the older Americans subsidizing it, and is similarly unknown to the young U.S. college grads who are hurt by it,” he wrote in February.

“Given this twisted political dynamic, inertia, and the total silence of the media on this point, the program persists and grows each year,” North added.

>>3690981

Sauce: https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/01/us-tech-amazon-tax-break-opt/

>>3691010

I don't think they should get anymore a break than you and I, I have never been able to write down my taxes to zero..they should pay their share..