Chad’s Morning Brief: Hillary Clinton Proposes Tax Increases and the FBI Calls Another Shooting a Terror Attack

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Tax Increase

Hillary Clinton would raise taxes on the rich if elected President according to CNBC.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton plans to signal she'll propose further tax increases on wealthy Americans Wednesday while collecting a public endorsement from one of the wealthiest, billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

Buffett has made clear his support for Clinton in interviews and campaign fund-raisers. But his public appearance at her side in Omaha is rare, and she's using it to amplify her tax policy approach with just weeks to go before she squares off against Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.

Clinton has proposed large new spending plans for such priorities as making college more affordable, expanding infrastructure, and bolstering access to child care and early childhood education. The Republican National Committee estimates the total cost of those proposals so far at $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

I guess it wouldn't be a Democratic primary without Democrats suggesting higher taxes and people paying their fair share. Oh and of course promises of "free stuff".

Chattanooga Shooting Labeled a Terror Attack

According to the FOX News, the FBI has labeled the attack in Chattanooga in July a terror attack.

The semantic dance of whether or not to call the July mass shooting in Chattanooga a “terrorist” attack appears to be winding down.

FBI Director James Comey twice called the deadly Chattanooga shooting that killed four Marines and one sailor a “terror attack” during a press conference with NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton on Wednesday. Bratton and Comey spoke after addressing the NYPD Shield Conference in New York City.

“We’ve investigated Chattanooga as a terror attack from the beginning,” Comey said. “The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It’s hard to entangle which particular source…there are lots of competing poisons out there.”

That response came as Comey was asked to clarify an earlier statement in which he linked the root cause of the July 16 rampage by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Kuwait, to the recent Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

“San Bernardino, as with Chattanooga, another terror attack we’ve dealt with in recent times…” Comey began the answer to a question about the Dec. 2 terror attack in California.

Abdulazeez, 24, was fatally shot by police after opening fire at a military recruiting center and then driving to a reserve center, where he killed five.

Officially classifying the Chattanooga attack as terror would make Abdulazeez's victims eligible for Purple Hearts.

During the five months since the Chattanooga attacks, law enforcement officials and the Obama administration have seemingly had some reluctance to label that act a terrorist deed.

It's about time. It's also telling that the Obama administration has been reluctant in calling both this attack and the one in California terror attacks. Just doesn't fit their narratives.