“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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Adam Kokesh on The Presidency, The Constitution, US Military, AI, Ron Paul, Rothbard
“He’s not concerned with whether you agree with him on the Constitution, the US Military, or Freedom. More important, Adam asks do you know what his views actually are? Adam says you should be the ‘alpha’ of your own life. You might call him a patriot, or maybe rabble-rouser, but regardless of where you stand, Adam hopes after the 2020 election cycle, you will call him ‘the last President you will never need.'”
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.”
Oklahoma Passes Most Progressive Medical Marijuana Initiative Since California’s Prop 215
“Oklahomans for Health, the folks behind the initiative ought to be feeling pretty good right about now. They have successfully passed a very enlightened medical marijuana law in the face of opposition from the state’s Republican and religious establishment.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/27/oklahoma_passes_most_progressive
Supreme Court Screws Small Online Businesses
“Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Gorsuch, cast the tie-breaking vote to drop the guillotine on online small businesses.”
Canada finally legalizes marijuana, leaves regulation to provinces
“It’s up to the provinces and territories to determine how to handle distribution, and they’re taking a variety of approaches.”
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/legal-marijuana-will-roll-out-differently-canada-u-s-n885281
Republican Party of Texas Backs Marijuana Decriminalization
“In addition to decriminalization, the party voted to call for marijuana to be rescheduled to a lower class of drug federally and for the legalization of industrial hemp.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/texas-republicans-marijuana-legalization-weed-pot-982324
The States Could Reform Obamacare If Only We Would Let Them
“The cause of the most serious problems in Obamacare can be summarized in a single word: Dumping. Group plans are dumping their sickest, most costly enrollees on the individual market. Within that market, health plans are dumping their most costly enrollees on each other. And individuals are dumping costs on other individuals by waiting to insure until they get sick.”
Former Speaker Boehner, now a marijuana company lobbyist, says feds should butt out
“Months after joining a cannabis company advisory board, former Speaker of the House John Boehner is now telling his former colleagues to let legalization flourish.”
Fund Managers Are Ditching Wall Street for Florida’s 0% State Income Tax
“Their relocation rewards years of work by Florida officials to entice the investment crowd with promises of warm weather and zero state income taxes.”