“There are few bipartisan projects in Congress these days, but Republicans and Democrats have no trouble joining together to feed more money into the Pentagon’s gaping maw.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/06/21/ndaa-spending-pentagon-budget-senate
“The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days.”
“Every business large and small will be responsible for knowing the sales tax rates in [over 10,000] counties, towns, cities and states in the nation. The ruling is a Pandora’s box for expansive state taxing authority. This court decision is not limited to expanding the targets of the state sales tax. Politicians will use this court decision as a green light to export their income tax to individuals and companies in other states.”
“With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police–tyrannical psychopaths.”
“The stakes are high because China buys roughly 30 percent of all America’s soy. The proposed 25 percent tariff — which is a tax buyers pay the government to purchase the commodity — ensures Chinese buyers will look elsewhere.”
“The United States is one of the only countries to tax based on citizenship, not residency. And the U.S. government has tightened its rules in recent years to make it more difficult for Americans to evade taxes by hiding money offshore. For Americans who reside in foreign countries, that can make it more difficult to find financial institutions who will let them open accounts.”
“The year the Declaration of Independence was signed — 1776 — was the same year that saw the publication of Adam Smith’s famous treatise on economics, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. That is quite a coincidence, one that had enormous ramifications for liberty.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/03/the-revolutions-of-adam-smith-and-thomas-jefferson/
“Empires are very different from republics. They are no longer by, for, and of the people. They’re too big… too complex… with too many fingers in too many pies for the people or their elected representatives to keep up with.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/would-the-founding-fathers-recognize-modern-america/
“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
“At some point the wolf cannot say ‘I won’t eat you’ to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily.”
Read more: http://fastml.com/googles-principles-on-ai-weapons-mass-surveillence-and-signing-out/