Project 2025: The 2025 Presidential Transition Project: on Corporations
Joe Biden:
Revoked "management rights" in union collective bargaining
President Trump issued three executive orders: - Executive Order 13836, encouraging agencies to renegotiate all union collective bargaining agreements to ensure consistency with the law and respect for management rights;
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Executive Order 13837, encouraging agencies to prevent union representatives from using official time preparing or pursuing grievances or from engaging in other union activity on government time; and
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Executive Order 13839, encouraging agencies both to limit labor grievances on removals from service or on challenging performance appraisals and to prioritize performance over seniority when deciding
who should be retained following reductions-in-force.
All were revoked by the Biden Administration and should be reinstated by the next Administration
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.81-82
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Corporate tax rate 18%; plus two income tax rates, 15% & 30%
The Treasury should work with Congress to simplify the tax code by enacting a simple two-rate individual tax system of 15 percent and 30 percent that eliminates most deductions, credits and exclusions. The 30 percent bracket should begin at or near the
Social Security wage base to ensure the combined income and payroll tax structure acts as a nearly flat tax on wage income beyond the standard deduction. The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent. The corporate income tax is the most
damaging tax in the U.S. tax system, and its primary economic burden falls on workers because capital is more mobile than labor. Capital gains and qualified dividends should be taxed at 15 percent. Thus, the combined corporate income tax combined with
the capital gains or qualified dividends tax rate would be roughly equal to the top individual income tax rate.18 The system should allow immediate expensing for capital expenditures and index capital gains taxes for inflation.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.696
Apr 1, 2023
Barack Obama:
Fully disclose corporate advice to workers on union rules
During the Obama Administration, DOL created significant regulatory burdens for employers with respect to the advice that employers receive about union activity. As a general matter, employers who hire lawyers or other consultants to
advise employees about union issues must file disclosure forms with the department, as must the lawyers and consultants themselves.
Prior to the Obama Administration, advice provided solely to the employer required no disclosure. The Obama Administration attempted to eliminate this "advice exemption" with a directive known as the "persuader rule," which was successfully challenged
in court. In 2018, the Trump Administration formally rescinded the persuader rule. DOL should rescind the persuader rule once again should the Biden Administration revive it.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.602
Apr 1, 2023
Donald Trump:
Respect management rights in union collective bargaining
President Trump issued three executive orders: - Executive Order 13836, encouraging agencies to renegotiate all union collective bargaining agreements to ensure consistency with the law and respect for management rights;
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Executive Order 13837, encouraging agencies to prevent union representatives from using official time preparing or pursuing grievances or from engaging in other union activity on government time; and
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Executive Order 13839, encouraging agencies both to limit labor grievances on removals from service or on challenging performance appraisals and to prioritize performance over seniority when deciding
who should be retained following reductions-in-force.
All were revoked by the Biden Administration and should be reinstated by the next Administration
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.81-82
Apr 1, 2023
Heritage Foundation:
Rescind the "persuader rule" on disclosing advice to workers
During the Obama Administration, DOL created significant regulatory burdens for employers with respect to the advice that employers receive about union activity. As a general matter, employers who hire lawyers or other consultants to
advise employees about union issues must file disclosure forms with the department, as must the lawyers and consultants themselves.
Prior to the Obama Administration, advice provided solely to the employer required no disclosure. The Obama Administration attempted to eliminate this "advice exemption" with a directive known as the "persuader rule," which was successfully challenged
in court. In 2018, the Trump Administration formally rescinded the persuader rule. DOL should rescind the persuader rule once again should the Biden Administration revive it.
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.602
Apr 1, 2023
Joe Biden:
MAGA Project 2025: handouts to the ultra wealthy
Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump's MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins. Trump's campaign advisors and close allies wrote
it--and are doing everything they can to elect him so he can execute their playbook immediately. Here is a taste of Trump's Project 2025:- Takes Away Reproductive Freedom Nationwide
- Uses the Presidency for Revenge on Trump's Political and
Personal Enemies
- Terminates the Constitution
- Consolidates Power in the Oval Office
- Guts Democratic Checks and Balances on Presidential Power
- Gives Handouts to the Ultra Wealthy Paid for by Working Families
- And Much, Much, Much More
Where did Project 2025 come from? The highest levels of the MAGA Trump elite wrote Project 2025 as a blueprint for Trump to implement if he wins a second term. Fortunately, we have access to it in time to warn America and stop their power grab.
Source: Biden campaign response, www.TrumpsProject2025.com
Jul 7, 2024
Heritage Foundation:
Investigate corporate ESG as cover for unfair trade practice
It has long been suspected that corporate social advocacy on issues ranging from "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" (DEI) to the "environmental, social, and governance" (ESG) movement also serves to launder corporate reputation and perhaps obtain
favorable treatment from government actors.The FTC should set up an ESG/DEI collusion task force to investigate firms--particularly in private equity--to see if they are using the practice as a means to meet targets, fix prices, or reduce output.
Congress should investigate ESG practices as a cover for anticompetitive activity and possible unfair trade practices. The business of American business is business, not ideology. Managers, particularly in publicly traded corporations,
who use their power to advance sets of fashionable moral beliefs, such as ESG/DEI, introduce agency problems into the shareholder relationship and appropriate corporate wealth for their own benefit
Source: Project 2025, by the Heritage Foundation, p.873-4
Apr 1, 2023
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