Your Morning Sift

Good morning.

It's a slow Monday morning in the South Florida blogosphere. Let's get things going today with your morning Sift.

A- Offshore powerboat racing photos get us started this Monday morning at Nikon Miami.

B- I Heart Miami reminds us about the outdoor movies being shown each Tuesday during the month of June in Midtown.

C- Royal Poinciana trees herald the beginning of summer in South Florida, says Go Hydrology!

Streets literally light up in their presence.

But it’s a strange light in that it’s not luminous at all, rather a deep luxurious shade – a copious canopy of sinewy yet strong branches and fern-like leaves.

D- Bark Bark Woof Woof takes a look at a couple right wing memes that don't hold up to logic.

I never studied economic theory beyond a class I had in high school, but it doesn't take a degree from the London School of Economics to know that tax cuts alone don't lead to prosperity. Every time in recent memory that we've tried massive tax cuts, we've gotten a recession soon after: Reagan in the 1980's and Bush in the 2000's, and we've had some of the best economic times when we've have comparatively high taxes; i.e. the 1950's, when the top tax rate was a whopping 91% under that socialist Dwight Eisenhower. What we need is a balance of both revenues and spending, and so far, all the Republican offerings have been unbalanced... in every sense of the the word.

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