“Their relocation rewards years of work by Florida officials to entice the investment crowd with promises of warm weather and zero state income taxes.”
“California governor Jerry Brown wants to impose the state’s first-ever tax on drinking water, tacked onto monthly bills.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/06/07/drinking-water-tax-the-last-straw-for-californians/
“Grey and black market consumers don’t get hit with stiff sales and excise taxes, and if they can still get it from the guy down the street, why pay those high, state-legal prices?”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/30/why_are_californias_legal
“Alarmingly, a majority of millennials would prefer to live under socialism or communism.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/3-myths-of-socialism-debunked-by-venezuela-s-nightmare/
“British warships sunk the San Jose and its crew of 600 in 1701. Colombia and Spain both say it belongs to them.”
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robot-submarine-finds-shipwreck-san-jose-carrying-17-billion-treasure/
“‘We are not going to do any violence to the traditional definition of a security that has worked for a long time,’ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC Wednesday.”
“Among the changes to the law Mitchell and the group are calling for are making lying, fabricating evidence, and withholding information a felony, requiring more publicly available information so parents know their rights, eliminating total immunity for state agents, and requiring all parental termination cases to be jury trials.”
“The EU is voting to introduce aggressive new online copyright laws and ‘widespread censorship’ measures, which critics say could strangle new media websites and stifle satire and online meme culture.”
“Isn’t that sad that calling the police to someone’s house is attempted murder?”
“The Georgia police officer who was fired for hitting a fleeing suspect with his cop car on Saturday was out of work for just two days.”
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-fired-hitting-fleeing-suspect-car-hired/story?id=55652553