Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico

“Dozens of entrepreneurs, made newly wealthy by blockchain and cryptocurrencies, are heading en masse to Puerto Rico this winter. They are selling their homes and cars in California and establishing residency on the Caribbean island in hopes of avoiding what they see as onerous state and federal taxes on their growing fortunes, some of which now reach into the billions of dollars.  They want to build a crypto utopia, a new city where the money is virtual and the contracts are all public, to show the rest of the world what a crypto future could look like. Blockchain, a digital ledger that forms the basis of virtual currencies, has the potential to reinvent society — and the Puertopians want to prove it.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/technology/cryptocurrency-puerto-rico.html

 

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California to create a state-run bank for pot businesses to ease tax collection

“Store owners, growers and distributors are being forced to use cash because most banks won’t open accounts for them while the federal government still considers marijuana illegal.  As revenues inevitably increase, they will be lugging larger stacks of 50s and 100s to the tax collector, a situation that everyone agrees makes businesses vulnerable to thievery, violent crime, money laundering and extortion.”

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/John-Chiang-lays-out-plan-to-create-a-public-bank-12537099.php

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California seeks bans on flamethrowers and flame retardants alike

Following last year’s San Francisco ban on flame retardants in furniture, a California Democrat now aims to ban Elon Musk’s new and hugely popular flamethrower from the market.

Flame retardants banned for more than a decade continue to bioaccumulate in humans.

Induced perspiration is the best known method of excreting persistent environmental pollutants such as dioxins, PCBs, BPA, and flame retardants known as PBDEs.

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California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

“The Democratic majority leader in California’s lower house has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon’s law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau

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Restaurants attacked for surcharges prompted by minimum wage hike

“San Diego is cracking down on several restaurants that city officials say are adding surcharges in misleading and illegal ways to help cover increased labor costs from the minimum wage hike that took effect Jan. 1.”

Read more: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-wage-enforcement-20170105-story.html

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Raising Millionaires’ Taxes Will Drive Them Away

“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/

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California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?

“So how is it that California, which has spent nearly $1 trillion on antipoverty programs, has the highest poverty rate in the nation? It turns out that state and local bureaucrats who administer California’s antipoverty programs have proven stubbornly resistant to pro-work reforms that have been effective at spurring individuals to pull themselves out of poverty.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/california-has-the-highest-poverty-rate-in-america-why/

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Ca. Democrats want businesses to give half their tax-cut savings to state

“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

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Airbnb loses thousands of hosts in SF as registration rules kick in

“Other services, like FlipKey, which weren’t a party to the settlement, will face fines of up to $1,000 a day per listing and criminal penalties if they help arrange bookings of unregistered listings.”

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Airbnb-loses-thousands-of-hosts-in-SF-as-12496624.php

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New California declares “independence” from rest of state

“The state of New California would incorporate most of the state’s rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California. But unlike other separation movements in the past, the state of New California wants to do things by the book, citing Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution and working with the state legislature to get it done, similar to the way West Virginia was formed.”

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-california-declares-independence-from-rest-of-state/

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