IRS To Extract $207 Billion From Small Businesses By Enforcing Obamacare

“The employer mandate is lucrative for the government. It is expected to bring in penalty payments of $207 billion over the next decade, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office.  Businesses will generally incur fines of around $2,000 per employee (excluding the first 30) if they do not offer qualifying coverage to nearly all of those who work an average of 30 or more hours a week.  The penalty is activated if at least one employee then buys insurance on the health law’s marketplace and receives a subsidy for it.  The per-employee fine increases each year, and can add up quickly: A company with 100 workers that ignored the law this year would owe a penalty of more than $158,000.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/business/irs-health-insurance-mandate.html

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Is Government Really The Price Of Civilization?

“The infrastructure-building, law-codifying, biopolitical states of antiquity are not the starting points of universal history for Scott, as they were for both Marx and liberal historians. They are instead a kind of usurpation of a longer and quite possibly richer human practice of mobility and freedom.”

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/145444/paleo-politics-what-made-prehistoric-hunter-gatherers-give-freedom-civilization

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When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean Being Banned From Working

“Blocking licenses is a more aggressive weapon, and states are using it on behalf of themselves and the federal government.  Proponents of the little-known state licensing laws say they are in taxpayers’ interest. But critics from both parties say the laws shove some borrowers off a financial cliff.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/business/student-loans-licenses.html

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U.S. Sued For Flooding Some Houston Neighborhoods to Save Others

“The takings clause of the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment forbids the federal government from seizing citizens’ property without paying for it.  Until 2012 the government successfully argued that it wasn’t legally responsible for decisions made in response to temporary flooding. That year the Supreme Court laid out a new multifactor test that could establish government liability in such cases.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-16/the-u-s-flooded-one-of-houston-s-richest-neighborhoods-to-save-everyone-else

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Police can legally use 23andMe, other ancestry tools to obtain your DNA

“The report claims Ancestry complied with a 2014 search warrant to obtain a DNA sample from a site customer.”

Read more: https://www.local10.com/news/police-can-legally-use-23andme-other-ancestry-tools-to-obtain-your-dna

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US aiding Saudi ‘war crimes’ in Yemen: Congressman

“Thousands of people have been killed in the conflict and the Saudi-led coalition has bombed key infrastructure and imposed a strict blockade on the country.  Yemen is facing a dire humanitarian crisis and millions of people will die in what could be the worst famine in decades if the blockade is not lifted, the United Nations recently warned.  The US has assisted Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in ‘conducting aerial bombings in Yemen’ and provided ‘midair refueling services’ to their warplanes, according to the resolution, which was overwhelmingly adopted by a vote of 366-30.'”

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/aiding-saudi-war-crimes-yemen-congressman-171116150400085.html

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Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain

“The world’s worst humanitarian crisis is deteriorating as a Saudi blockade prevents desperately needed food, fuel and medicine from entering the country. London’s unstinting support for Riyadh makes the UK complicit.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2017/nov/17/the-guardian-view-on-yemen-a-catastrophe-that-shames-britain

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How Congress and drug company lobbyists worked to neutralize the DEA

“The law was the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market. The industry worked behind the scenes with lobbyists and key members of Congress, pouring more than a million dollars into their election campaigns.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/

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Abolish the Drug Enforcement Administration, Help The Poor Instead

“The DEA oversees a multibillion-dollar enterprise whose primary purpose is to criminalize millions of people for the use of drugs. Nearly half of those incarcerated in federal prison are there for drug violations, including 60 percent of all female inmates. The DEA has kept marijuana on the list of Schedule 1 drugs in the face of widespread evidence of its benign nature. Racial disparities in the policing of the drug war remain profound.”

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/abolish-the-drug-enforcement-agency/

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‘Over 130 children die each day’ in US-backed blockade of Yemen

“Save the Children says more than 50,000 youngsters are believed to have already lost their lives so far this year.  The organisation has said a blockade by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels will almost certainly make things worse.  The World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the World Food Programme said seven million people are on the brink of famine.  More than 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict since March 2015 and three million have been displaced.”

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/over-130-children-die-each-day-in-yemens-war-as-calls-to-end-blockade-intensify-11129036

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