Friday, January 31, 2025

MCPP: What's Cooking at the Capitol?

Wow!  What a start!  Donald Trump began his Presidency with a blizzard of Executive Orders.  He’s not holding back on advancing a conservative agenda. An emergency has been declared to secure the southern border.  DEI hires in the federal government are being fired.  The renewable energy boondoggle is over.  Mass deportations have begun. 

  But what about Mississippi?  Have our state lawmakers been using their time in office to deliver the change we need?

The good news is that two weeks into the 2025 legislative session there are some significant conservative bills at the Capitol under consideration. 

  SCHOOL CHOICE

  HB1435 (Jansen Owen) offers public to public school choice.  It would give every Mississippi family the choice options that last year the legislature extended to military families.  HB1433 (Rob Roberson) would allow a limited form of public to private school choice in D and F rated districts.  Shout out to Rep Owen and Rep Roberson! Both bills are vitally important, and we strongly support them.  Also worth watching are bills to increase the number of Charter Schools and overhaul our phony district grading system.

  INCOME TAX ABOLITION

  The House has already passed HB1 (Rep Lamar, Speaker Jason White), which offers to eliminate the state income tax over the next decade.  It would be truly awesome if this were to pass. There is an issue with the fact that the bill frontloads some tax rises early on, but I am confident that good conservatives can make this work.  Kudos to Rep Lamar and Speaker White….

  ANTI DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

  SB2223 (Sen Hill), HB1179 (Rep Currie) and HB1416 (Rep Currie) offer comprehensive legislative action to address DEI.  This is timely given that President Trump has just repealed Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order mandating reverse discrimination. Also important is Sen England’s SB2182 bill, which would let sunlight in as an anti DEI disinfectant.  Families would have a right to see what their kids are being taught in the classroom.  Three cheers for Sen Hill, Rep Currie and Sen England!

  BALLOT INNITIATIVE

  There is also a bill in the Senate, SB2572, sponsored by Sen Boyd, to restore the ballot initiative.  Well done, Sen Boyd.  If you can make this happen, you will be a hero to many. Given that the Senate has been the place that efforts to restore the ballot initiative have usually gone to die, the fact that this has the sanction of some in the Senate might be significant. There is also a superb bill to reform Certificate of Need laws (HB922) by Rep Zuber and Rep Creekmore.  A thousand cheers to both of them!

There are also some excellent proposals to allow Mississippians to buy wine online.  It’s ridiculous we can’t already …

  WILL ANY OF THIS HAPPEN?

  These are all excellent conservative proposals, but we’ve been here before.  Will our lawmakers make any of this happen?  What has already happened to some of the anti DEI bills is instructive. Mississippi Lieutenant Governor, Delbert Hosemann, moved to kill Sen Hill’s anti DEI bill through a procedural sleight of hand.  He did so by double referring the Hill bill, meaning that the chances of it progressing further are tiny.

  Mr. Hosemann maneuvered to kill the anti-DEI bill in Jackson the very week that President Trump issued Executive Orders to combat DEI in Washington. 

  Fortunately, lurking on the list of bills is a Senate bill (SB2515) called the REFOCUS bill (Sen Boyd).  It proposes a long overdue review of our public universities, and it seems to include a section about tackling DEI.  Or at least prevent public universities from maintaining a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion office. 

We know that Ole Miss and others have already rebranded their Diversity departments, so the bill could just be symbolic.  It might do nothing to counter leftist faculty, while allowing politicians to play word salad on SuperTalk. But depending on the language that Sen Boyd uses, her bill might actually be meaningful.  This could be the kind of anti DEI bill we need. 

  Here at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, we have built up a large audience across the state.  Our weekly email goes out to over 80,000 people In Mississippi.  Over the past week, more than ten million viewers across America and beyond saw our digital output.

As the House and Senate consider these conservative proposals in the weeks ahead, we will let you know who, like President Trump, has been actively on your side, and who continues to frustrate conservative reform. 

Douglas Carswell is the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. The Mississippi Center for Public Policy sponsored this post. 

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

On the Southern Border issue, a simple solution! Go after the employers and companies that hire illegals! Crickets!!!

Anonymous said...

On immigration, send back all illegals that perform agriculture work, then send billions to farm owners and rancher owners! Something to think about?

Anonymous said...

More propaganda in support of a POTUS who thinks only about himself.

Anonymous said...

Full of bull this person.

No, 'DEI hires' are not being fired, son. The folks in "DEI Office" positions are being put on admin leave. Ostensibly, their position will be ended but that doesn't mean they are going to be unlawfully removed. IF they are political appointees, as most of them are, it's Normal to be replaced at every administration change. Stop the Rah Rah propaganda. You misuse the term "DEI hire" I guess as if you think every minority or disabled hire is under some DEI program. If they were hired without cause, the system would fix that eventually, but, no, you're wrong that "DEI hires" are being fired.

Second, "MASS??? Deportations? Glad to see borders being secured! Totally against mass immigration to here. Really pissed at Miss chicken plant owners and Miss farmers and roofers who have abused this for personal gain and profit. But, MASS??? Do some math. A Maximum of 1000 arrests a day takes HOW MANY Days to reach even 1 million out of 13 million illegals? That would be 1000 days, or the end of the Trump Admin nearly for 1 out of 13, if that is even stopped with all the ones still sneaking in. A drop in the bucket.

Stop licking boots and spewing RINO ReHabbeds drivel, Dougie Et Al. But I will spot you that campus faculty at Ole Miss is woke and working hard to "resist" and undermine America. Esp at Law School and Schools of Social Work, etc.

Anonymous said...

We have a. Lot of people out of the work force because they can stay home and get government $$
I get sick of hearing Americans want do that work
Hell if they were hungry they would
I’v done all kinds of “crap” jobs coming up

Anonymous said...

Renewable energy boondoggle? The reality is that an insistence to remain reliant on fossil fuels is going to make China the big winner as far as car and battery production. The rest of the world is determined to move towards renewable energy. America must compete. Our orange luddite in charge is harming America with the favoring of fossil fuels.

Mac said...

Go back and look how the government counts unemployed. After a few months they take you off of the employable list. That's where 15% of the employees are on this unemployable list. Look it up, that's how Obama manipulated the unemployment numbers. Let some people get hungry and they will go back to work.

Anonymous said...

Kratom kills! Several bills to make kratom a regulated schedule 3 drug. No mo gas station crack 4 sale?

paulo said...

There are people ready to fill the jobs the illegal folks worked . Just get ready to pay. If you are paying an illegal $ 12.50, you are probably going to have to pay a citizen $25.00 as fair wage . That’s why money grabbers hired the illegals in the first place, it wasn’t that they couldn’t find people to work , it’s because they could cut cost and pocket the profits.

Anonymous said...

@12:51 -- Most of those jobs don't warrant a $25/hour pay. So much of the young, American workforce these days are pathetic and have very little to offer an employer -- can't manage to get to work 5 days a week, can't add, have no social skills, etc. They certainly don't deserve that pay!! They have no idea what a full day of good, honest work involves. Entitlement at its finest!

Anonymous said...

Kratom kills and so does stupidity. We can't outlaw everything you pansy.

Anonymous said...

I which he would learn when and when not to open his mouth! He just rambles on and on. I voted for him but I can’t sit there and watch a news conference that lasts forever that should last for 20 minutes.

paulo said...

Illegals have devalued the price for skilled and unskilled workers, when that pool of workers are gone, competition will drive the cost and it going to increase significantly . Americans citizens will have a new incentive to work once they are paid a living and fare wage.

Paul Mitchell said...

Serious question, how long will it take to close the schools that are failing? Or are they going to stay open and continue their failures?

What is the real problem with failing schools? It has to be one of three things or a combination of those three things. Either the teachers are terrible, the students are stupid, or the administration is keeping learning from happening, right?

FYI, the overwhelming majority of border jumpers do not work, we will notice no difference in anything at all, except maybe that Fernando's will have to move again.

Anonymous said...

I shut up about "15 bucks an hour" whining when I Inputted my high school minimum wage job rate into an inflation calculator. It'd be 17 bucks an hour today. Stop the geezer rose colored glasses rants about young people. After you do that for your boomer wages, look at house prices from back then and adjust for inflation.

There's a good reason why 2 rich immigrant types urge MORE immigrant cut rate labor, and it's not an in group preference for Haitians. It's to destroy Middle America and the Middle Class. Roofers, restaurants, construction companies, factory farms, AI , tech, PE, Hedgers, all out to destroy middle class jobs, offshoring, etc.

There's a good reason young folks want fair wages and opportunity for citizens, not illegals. You should feel the same if you are not spending all day adding up your shekels and lying about how lucky you are. You didn't deserve it as it was just timing and luck, not "talent" or imagining how "hard" you worked 60 years ago.

Anonymous said...

Renewable energy is only a boondoggle for people who slept through both science and economics. Get on board, or get left behind.

Anonymous said...


@11:21- That's probably the dumbest thing ever written on this blog (well maybe). No workers-no food at the grocery or inflation of food will go way up. Fine the farmers and ranchers and the price will be added to their food cost.
Speaking of dumb things-the idiot representing Desota County has presented a bill to start a bounty hunter program to hunt down illegals. I can only imagine what the imagine of these probable thugs would do for our national imagine (not that some of you really care or understand economics.)
@12:51-most of the construction workers make at least $20/hr. When is the last time you put on a roof when it was 105 degrees?



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