“The states’ methods can be aggressive: Issuing subpoenas to pore through credit card statements, bank transactions or phone records to track a taxpayer’s location, and sending auditors to interview doormen or confirm doctors’ appointments.”
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What Venezuelan savers can teach everyone else
“To Venezuelans such wisdom is essential, because when you are coping with hyperinflation, the long term is next week.”
“The Swamp”: Fearless Reps Expose the Corruption on Capitol Hill
“The Swamp videos make it very obvious that, although there are 435 members of the House of Representatives, the key decisions are made by a handful of very powerful leaders bent on controlling the country and that the betrayal is bipartisan.”
Internet Sales Taxes Are Economy-Sapping Domestic Tariffs
“Here’s hoping the internet tariff is revisited by future Courts, as it’s plainly a restraint on trade. If cities and states really want a bigger cut of our consumption they should either raise local sales taxes, or they should demand that we report what we purchase outside where we live. Rather than hiding behind the courts in order to force non-constituent businesses to collect taxes for them, they should stand up and collect taxes on their own. And when voters vote them out, a message about excessive taxation will have been sent to all grasping politicians.”
First 50 South African farming families to resettle in Russia due to land confiscation
“Roughly 15,000 Boers are ready to leave their country and begin a new life in Russia.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/business/433772-boers-sa-russia-resettlement/
US Expropriates, Imprisons Bitcoin Trader For Carrying Cash in a Trader Joe’s Sack
“The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds’ fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/entrapment-prosecution-of-bitcoin-exchan
Question the ‘National-Defense’ Exception to Free Trade
“Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?”
U.S. to impose ‘national security’ tariffs on uranium imports
“The ‘Section 232’ probe was prompted by a petition filed by two U.S. uranium mining companies, Ur-Energy Inc and Energy Fuels Inc, complaining that subsidized foreign competitors have caused them to cut capacity and lay off workers.”
Florida City Forced To Drop $10,000+ In Fines Against Home’s ‘Starry’ Paint Job
“City officials claimed the display constituted an unapproved ‘sign’ because it attracted people to look at the house. The couple were fined $100 per day.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/18/florida-couple-gets-to-keep-starry-paint
America has a nobility problem
“The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats.”