Peach Pundit The Podcast: Sine Die Eve. Promise Scholarship. RFRA. Walkout Drama. Tariffs.

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It’s the eve of Sine Die, 2025, and Scot and Buzz let you know what’s going on.

AFP’s Hilton/West editorial re: SB 28.

Topics tonight included:

  • Promise Scholarship drama.
  • Budget drama.
  • RFRA passes.
  • House Democrats walk out
  • Trump imposes tariffs on everyone, including penguins.

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    Vice President of Public Policy for the Georgia Center for Opportunity. Erstwhile GOP State Representative and SOS candidate. Follow on Twitter: @buzzbrockway

    6 Replies to “Peach Pundit The Podcast: Sine Die Eve. Promise Scholarship. RFRA. Walkout Drama. Tariffs.”

        1. A classic avatar for sure.

          You raise a good question, John. I do not know how many RFRA states also have civil rights legislation. Research for a future discussion.

          1. Premise to question was based on some readings from a couple of years ago….and subsequently, I mis-“contexted” the question…

            How many RFRA states “do not have a public accommodation law for nondisabled individuals”? Unless other changes have occurred, I believe that answer is now…4: AL, GA, MS, TX. NC has no RFRA “law” but has court decisions that apply some RFRA language.

            A handful of GA minis/counties have these type of protections to some extent.

            The point being…balance. The vast majority of RFRA states have already expressed their “compelling interests” by codifying public accommodation and other laws that enumerate which individuals – by their inclusion in certain protected classes – are shielded from discrimination in the commercial marketplace.

            As Scot correctly pointed out, Georgia’s new RFRA does not change the fact that such protections neither existed prior nor will they exist going forward…unless they are addressed separately. Past attempts to do so have all been quickly shut down.

            In short, the “majority of states” claim regarding RFRA enaction, while accurate, is misleading without that additional qulification.

            1. Eh…

              I hear you, however, if discrimination is legal, and it is in Georgia, we do not hear widespread or even rare cases of people refusing others service. There is something in play that is preventing it, which is to say society has moved on.

    2. A memorable scene from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has a high school teacher vainly struggling to get some response from his dazed students. He says: “In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the… Anyone? Anyone?… the Great Depression, passed the… Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?… raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone?… Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.” This amusing scene managed to omit the U.S. Senate, but it was on June 13, 1930, that the Senate passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, among the most catastrophic acts in congressional history.–https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Passes_Smoot_Hawley_Tariff.htm

      Of course the tariff precipitated a trade war that helped create a global economic depression and on the political side of the equation resulted in a majority Republican Congress flipping in a massive landslide in both houses to the Democrats along with the 1932 presidential election of FDR. Will some of the current Republican members of Congress please step up and point out the emperor has no clothes?

      I know Scot has counseled patience and reading multiple sources from all sides. I do and highly recommend Ground News as one of mine. That being said my relatively safe index funds are down about 16% since Trump took office and I’m pissed. I was already embarrassed by the Jerry Springer-esqe aspect of Trump 2.0 but now that is transitioning to rage. I’m willing to take it out on any of his enablers in coming elections.

      My primary question regarding the history I mentioned is when did Congress cede their control of tariffs to the executive branch?

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