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Iceland plans “stability tax” at removal of capital controls

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“Iceland’s finance minister said on Tuesday the government was working on a tax aimed at cash transfers to other countries from the estates of the country’s collapsed banks to prevent an exodus as it starts lifting capital controls.  Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has promoted such an exit tax, or ‘stability tax’, since before his Progressive Party came to power in 2013 in a coalition together with the Independence Party. It has however not been clear whether he had enough backing by the government for the idea. It was not clear whether a tax would be imposed only on money transferred from the estates from the failed banks or on other transfers as well.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/14/iceland-tax-idUSL5N0XB4G320150414

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Shaming Those Who Skip Out on Taxes

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“Nearly two dozen states — among them California, Massachusetts and New York — publish online lists on state websites revealing the identities of tax delinquents.  We sent letters to 34,344 individuals who were publicly listed as tax delinquents in Kansas, Kentucky and Wisconsin. The lists included detailed information about these individuals, including their full names and addresses. They owed from $250 to $150,000 per person.  We divided recipients into two groups. In the first, only the recipient was chosen to get information about an online list of tax delinquents. In the second, the recipient and other people from the same community were given that information.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/shaming-those-who-skip-out-on-taxes.html

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“Czars” No More: New Mexico Bans Policing for Profit

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“New Mexico is small, but this move is significant because it shows the breakdown of a decades-old national political consensus between law enforcement bureaucracies and ‘law and order’ politicians, a Bootlegger-and-Baptist coalition that helped create and sustain the civil forfeiture regime.  Combined with former AG Eric Holder’s modest reform of a federal program that allowed police to do an end-run around state laws limiting forfeiture, there is hope that the moral cover for this deeply corrosive practice is being stripped away, and the public will finally see it for what it is: a racket.”

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/czars-no-more-state-bans-policing-for-profit

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“IF IN DOUBT…TAKE IT!”: Government Officials On Asset Forfeiture

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“One city attorney called his legal documents a ‘masterpiece of deception’ and has won 96 percent of his forfeiture cases.  An assistant district attorney takes property, even from owners who have been acquitted, because ‘people are not found innocent, they are found not guilty.’  One government official doesn’t want to disclose information about civil forfeiture, because it might become a ‘bullet-point for people that are trying to fight the program.’  A prosecutor teaches other attorneys how to take property from innocent people. He even offers this piece of advice, ‘IF IN DOUBT…TAKE IT!'”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicks29/aif-in-doubtatake-ita-behind-closed-doors-4y3w

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Rapper Nelly Stopped For Missing ‘Fuel Tax’ Sticker, Arrested For Drugs

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“Tennessee Highway Patrol said in a news release that Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Haynes, was pulled over about 9:20 a.m. because the bus he was riding in failed to display a U.S. Department of Transportation and International Fuel Tax Association sticker.  According to the release troopers smelled marijuana when they reached the bus.  When troopers searched the bus, they found five rocks that tested positive for meth, as well as a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.  The St. Louis native is facing charges including felony possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.”

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=50390

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New Mexico Bans Civil Asset Forfeiture

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“Today, Governor Susana Martinez signed HB 560 into law, ending the practice of civil asset forfeiture in New Mexico. Civil asset forfeiture, also known as ‘policing for profit,’ allows law enforcement officers to seize personal property without ever charging—much less convicting—a person with a crime. Property seized through this process often finds its way into the department’s own coffers. HB 560, introduced by NM Rep. Zachary Cook and passed unanimously, replaces civil asset forfeiture with criminal forfeiture, which requires a conviction of a person as a prerequisite to losing property tied to a crime.  New Mexico now has the strongest protections against wrongful asset seizures in the country.”

http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2015/04/new-mexico-governor-signs-historic-property-rights-protections-law

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Officer Caught On Tape Taking $2,650 During Untaxed Cigarette Raid

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“NYPD detective Ian Cyrus, 49, was caught on video allegedly stealing $2,650 from a Brooklyn deli during a raid over untaxed cigarettes.  An undercover officer allegedly bought a pack of Newport cigarettes from the deli for $9 which police say didn’t have a ‘tax stamp,’ two employees were arrested as a result and $593 was officially seized, as well as the rest of the untaxed cigarettes.  After local media covered the story, NYPD detective Ian Cryus was suspended without pay, his supervisor was stripped of his badge and moved to desk duty, and another officer involved who allegedly failed to report the deli owner’s complaint was placed on modified duty.”

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=50379

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Secret Service officer charged with attempted burglary, property destruction

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“A police officer went to a residence about 12:24 a.m. after receiving a call about a burglary in progress, police documents said.  The officer found the front door with broken hinges, boot prints and two broken windows, the documents say. The woman who lives there told the officer, ‘My ex-boyfriend won’t leave me alone.’   While the D.C. Metropolitan Police officer was at the scene, Baldwin drove up, said he was a police officer and asked to speak with the woman, the police document said.  When asked if he kicked in the door, Baldwin said, ‘I kicked the door but did not … break the windows,’ the document said.”

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/10/politics/secret-service-officer-arrested/

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Paul Rosenberg: ‘Production Versus Plunder’, Part 2

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“A zero-sum assumption is that there is a fixed pool of any specific good and that in order for you to have more, someone else has to accept less. This is the essence of the common slogan, ‘there are only so many pieces of pie.’ If you want an extra slice, someone else has to accept one less. A positive-sum assumption, on the other hand, assumes that the pool of assets can be expanded. In other words, if there are not enough slices of pie for your liking, you can make a new pie for yourself. The important thing about zero-sum and positive-sum assumptions is that they form a mental pattern, an analysis program in our brains, coloring wide areas of thought.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36225/Paul-Rosenberg-Production-Versus-Plunder–Part-2/

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NJ gov. pension double-dippers take home $74 million in 2014

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“In New Jersey, 540 public employees boosted their salaries last year with multiple government jobs that topped $100,000 — which will lead to sky-high retirement payments for years to come, the Asbury Park Press found. Seventy-seven high-paid multiple job holders were in Monmouth and Ocean counties, with Murray reaping the largest paycheck. Not too far behind was Ocean County Freeholder James F. Lacey. He was paid a total of $192,000 as Brick MUA’s administrator and a member of the county’s elected governing body. It’s all legal, and highly paid multiple job holders took home $74 million in taxpayer money in 2014, down by just $3 million from 2013.”

http://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/watchdog/government/2015/04/10/double-dippers-boost-pensions-new-jersey/25572393/

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