Sept. 18, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers have three months to keep the treasury secretary's timetable for achieving tax reform. Small business leaders say they're a big part of a potential boom, Rachel del Guidice reports. President Trump is in New York much of the week for a major speech at, and meetings about improving, the United Nations, Fred Lucas writes. A federal jobs program didn't change Kentucky coal country as promised, Kelsey Harkness shows. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on the minimum wage and public health. Happy 70th birthday, Air Force.
"Sometimes when you're promised something, you may be being lied to," says Paintsville, Kentucky, Mayor Bill Runyon.
"Two lesbian printers … voiced their support for us because they didn't want to be forced to print messages that would violate their consciences," says Blaine Adamson.
"If we get this tax cut done, we will see the biggest economic boom in this country that we have seen since Ronald Reagan," says The Heritage Foundation's Steve Moore (not pictured).
The reforms will focus on ensuring that other countries take a more equitable burden to ensure international security, to demand greater accountability of U.N. officials, and to reduce the budget by eliminating duplication.
A new study found that just a 10-cent increase in the minimum wage "increased hygiene violation scores by 11.45 percent."
"The politicians need to be forced to take a position on whether they are willing to have noncitizens vote," writes Bernard R. Gans of Los Angeles.
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