“Most of the states with dropping populations are high tax states. California, Rhode Island, and New York are all expected to lose Congressional seats. Illinois is hit especially hard with a fleeing populace, so much so that it may lose two seats.”
“If New Jersey and Massachusetts approve new millionaires’ taxes, it is difficult to predict how much will be raised and where these funds will ultimately wind up. But if New York and California are any guide, income surtaxes will be destructive. When it comes to higher taxation, interstate migration is just the tip of the iceberg. Higher-tax states, for instance, see less innovative activity and scientific research according to an analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve and UC Berkeley. Any benefits of millionaires’ taxes do not make up for the economic and social toll caused by fewer innovative activities and correspondingly lower job creation.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/raising-millionaires-taxes-will-drive-them-away/
“A proposed Constitutional Amendment would create a tax surcharge on California companies making more than $1 million so that half of their federal tax cut would instead go to programs that benefit low-income and middle-class families.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-democrats-want-businesses-to-give-half-12508742.php
“While still early in the wake of the enactment of the tax-reform law, the demonstrable results seem to be in stark contrast with the mandatory minimum-wage laws requiring a $15 wage.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/how-new-tax-cuts-are-fighting-for-15/
“There are now 12,000 taxing jurisdictions — not only states, counties, and cities, but also parishes, police districts, and Indian reservations. A lone online seller, unprotected by the Quill rule, could be obliged to remit taxes to any combination of them, with all their multitudinous rules and definitions, tax holidays and filing deadlines. E-commerce giants like Apple and Amazon may be able to absorb the enormous costs of setting up and operating multistate tax-collection and remittance systems. For local retailers, internet startups, and small ‘brick-and-click’ vendors with a shop on Main Street and a simple website, those costs could be ruinous.”
Read more: http://www.jeffjacoby.com/20757/in-an-age-of-e-commerce-the-quill-rule-is-more
“Tancítaro represents a quiet but telling trend in Mexico, where a handful of towns and cities are effectively seceding, partly or in whole. These are acts of desperation, revealing the degree to which Mexico’s police and politicians are seen as part of the threat.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/world/americas/mexico-state-corruption.html
“The South Carolina Department of Revenue said Alhanik filed $971,935 in sales tax returns in the period between 2013 and 2016, but after an investigation the agency found the store’s sales was $2.6 million, according to a press release. Alhanik dodged paying more than $136,000 in sales taxes during that four-year period, the department said.”
“The graphic video from the killing of Daniel Shiver was released after the jury decided to acquit ex-Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford of second-degree murder and reckless manslaughter. The Mesa police department and Mesa police union both supported Brailsford, but it’s important to receive feedback from police sources who don’t have a vested interest in the case.”
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/29/an-ex-cop-talks-about-police-shootings/
“Stefan Buck isn’t the only Swiss banker who has been acquitted of this newly created crime by Swiss bankers of conspiracy to deprive the IRS of money. Federal juries also acquitted two other Swiss bankers, which undoubtedly has shaken the IRS and federal prosecutors who have dozens more prosecutions pending.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/08/irs-tyranny-swiss-bankers/
“If there was a way to characterize the government’s actions against the Davidians as something other than mass murder that has been covered-up with rigged political inquiries, government biased experts, lackey judges, official lies and the intimidation of question askers, we, the producers of WTRE could not find it.”
Read more: https://patch.com/california/brentwood/will-abc-really-tell-us-what-happened-waco-1993