Trump, An 18th Century Law & Taxing Tourists – Top 3 Takeaways – March 26th, 2025
Takeaway #1: Using an 18th Century law
How long does a law have to be in place before it should no longer matter? What’s the particular timeframe before it’s inherently outdated? Is it twenty years? Forty? I know it must be 50+ years, right? After all who wouldn’t remodel a home after more than 50 years? So surely that must be the standard. And by that standard clearly any law from way back when isn’t at all meant to still mean anything. Right? Now the reason I’ve started my takeaways this way today is due to the insulting of our collective intelligence that’s been taking place with the typical news reporting of President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. As you’re likely aware two weekends ago President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies of Act of 1798 to deport Tren de Aragua terrorists outside of the United States without a legal process taking place. He was sued by the ACLU, which now legally fights for the “rights” of illegal immigrant terrorist organizations over you, and a sympathetic Obama appointed judge has tried to stop Trump from doing what he was elected to do. Anyway, as we’re waiting to hear what the result will be of an appeal the Trump team made to the D.C. appellate court, it’s clear what the narrative from your godlless, soulless and slanderous news media has positioned this to be. I’ve now lost track of the number of times I’ve heard of President Trump’s use of an 18th century law. You’ve likely heard this too, even if you hadn’t paid much attention to it or have given it much thought. Yesterday at the point where my sensibilities had been insulted, I did a generic Google search of “an 18th century law”. That’s it. Nothing about Trump, nothing about illegal immigrant terrorists, just an 18th century law. Here’s what I came up with – in order – first with Google’s AI: One example of an 18th-century law is the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which grants the president broad authority to control or remove non-citizens during wartime, and has been invoked recently in a controversial context. The with the actual search results which were stories under these headlines: Trump invokes 18th century law to target violent illegal migrant street gangs; Trump ignored judge's order, invokes 18th century law to speed deportations; Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later; U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans under 18th century law; Trump Attempts to Use 18th Century Law to Allow Feds to Enter Homes Without a Warrant. Yes, that last one really nailed it. That’s exactly what this is about...it’s about entering home without a warrant. I’m so glad we’ve been set straight. Anyway, I could continue but I think you get the idea. And when I mean I could continue... I mean I could share with you over 127,000 news reports that have been filed online with “Trump’s use of an 18th century law”.
Takeaway #2: The Left Has Learned Nothing
Now clearly just about every “journalist” in the GSS media didn’t naturally think on their own that the best way to frame this story is to do so through the prism of Trump’s use of an 18th century law. It’s the media’s objective to attempt to sway public opinion by saying that Donald Trump had no right to use a law because it’s so old. Or something to that effect. And here’s what gets me. You know what’s older than the Alien Enemies Act that is still in use every day and in just about every way in this country? That old, tired, dusty document we call a constitution. I suppose if the Alien Enemies Act is too old to use, we really need to scrap this whole constitution thing too. Right? Actually, sadly, for many in the GSS media that’s something they’d love to do. Anyway, you get the point. And while we’re on the subject of old texts that are especially important to adhere to, there’s this thing called the Bible, that’s just a little older than this country that many in the news media would be well served to read. Meanwhile Trump continues to enjoy his highest approval ratings on the issue of immigration with the vast majority of Americans in favor of his decisions to do things like use old laws to deport illegal immigrant terrorists. Talk about the opposition including the news media being on the wrong side of history. It’s clear that the left has yet to learn anything.
Takeaway #3: Tax the Tourists
One of the hottest topics and biggest debates taking place surrounding Florida’s state legislative session is whether property taxes should stay or whether they should go? As we’ve extensively discussed on this show, there are many steps that would have to come together before a planned end to property taxes could come together. First, the legislature would have to pass a law to authorize a study. Next the legislature would have to use the study to put together a proposed amendment that they’d have to pass in next year’s state legislative session and then, even if that all came together, over 60% of voters would have to vote to put an end to property taxes on the November midterm election ballot next year. But while debates are continuing to take place from communities in PBC to legislators in Tallahassee, one of the biggest questions is where funds for local communities would come from. As my analysis showed, nearly doubling the sales tax would do the trick – of course local governments living within their means as opposed to spending every dollar that they see would be helpful too. Anyway, on Tuesday, Governor DeSantis added his thoughts for who could help foot the bill when he said: If you’re going to tax, I don’t want you taxing Florida residents’ property. Tax the tourists. Tax some of the foreigners. DeSantis went on to say that communities... have the ability in some of those areas that draw a lot of people to shift the tax burden away from your own people to people that are not residents of Florida. The governor also added that additional considerations would need to be paid to communities that don’t benefit from the tourist trade. But nevertheless, DeSantis is effectively pushing for greater fiscal responsibility at the local level and a “tourist tax” over property taxes. Is that a trade that you’d be willing to make?