Education

There are multiple Republican tax plans that are difficult to keep up with.  The House, Senate, and White House each have their own plans.  The Democrats in office will have no say in the matter. The underlying theme is to cut taxes as much as possible for the wealthiest.  It's difficult to uncover and track the many hidden gems within their devious plans but Smart Dissent will try to share as many as we can.  

We as individuals must undertake Smart Dissent by speaking up loudly and hoping numerous Republicans in Congress see the light.   

There are multiple Republican tax plans that are difficult to keep up with.  The House, Senate, and White House each have their own plans.  The Democrats in office will have no say in the matter. The underlying theme is to cut taxes as much as possible for the wealthiest.  It's difficult to uncover and track the many hidden gems within their devious plans but Smart Dissent will try to share as many as we can.  

We as individuals must undertake Smart Dissent by speaking up loudly and hoping numerous Republicans in Congress see the light.   

Smart Dissent has discussed Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on a few occasions including: here, here, and here.  Zinke is in charge of our beloved National Parks, not to mention offshore drilling.

On October 12th, the Trump White House announced the U.S. would withdraw from UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization.  Due to the sheer volume of terrible things Trump's people are doing every day, this action didn't even make it through the day before moving out of the news cycle.  So let's briefly address what UNESCO is and then why withdrawal by the U.S. is noteworthy.

Smart Dissent's issues with Betsy DeVos have been documented repeatedly including here, here, here, here, and

In early February, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Education Secretary. Two Republicans, Senators Murkowski (AK) and Collins (ME), joined the entire Democratic caucus to force an historic tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence.  Read more at this link.  Her installation to a position of power over our education system means she spends every day implementing policies with destructive consequences for our country.

In early February, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Education Secretary. Two Republicans, Senators Murkowski (AK) and Collins (ME), joined the entire Democratic caucus to force an historic tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence.  Read more at this link.  Her installation to a position of power over our education system means she spends every day implementing policies with destructive consequences for our country.

In early February, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Education Secretary. Two Republicans, Senators Murkowski (AK) and Collins (ME), joined the entire Democratic caucus to force an historic tie-breaking vote from Vice President Pence.  Read more at this link.  Her installation to a position of power over our education system means she spends every day implementing policies with destructive consequences for our country.

If you read the headline of this post or saw the coverage last week and instinctively had a confused look on your face and said "what?" out loud to yourself, you are not alone.  Nothing should surprise us anymore with this administration and their accomplices, but they keep trying. If only we could joke at the abject absurdity of this, but the directive detailed below is anything but a laughing matter as our country takes enormous steps backwards from our quest to be a more perfect Union.

The climate-change-denying White House has little use for science.  So it should infuriating all of us - but unfortunately not surprising - that the science department within the White House is now unstaffed.

The science division of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was unstaffed as of Friday as the three remaining employees departed this week.... All three employees were holdovers from the Obama administration.