“Every business large and small will be responsible for knowing the sales tax rates in [over 10,000] counties, towns, cities and states in the nation. The ruling is a Pandora’s box for expansive state taxing authority. This court decision is not limited to expanding the targets of the state sales tax. Politicians will use this court decision as a green light to export their income tax to individuals and companies in other states.”
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Nanny State: A Permit Patty and BBQ Becky In Every Neighborhood

“With a phone pressed to the side of their sanctimonious faces, this army of volunteer state minions get to feel like their local police–tyrannical psychopaths.”
Midwestern farmers brace to lose billions in trade war

“The stakes are high because China buys roughly 30 percent of all America’s soy. The proposed 25 percent tariff — which is a tax buyers pay the government to purchase the commodity — ensures Chinese buyers will look elsewhere.”
More Americans cutting ties with the US over taxes, financial surveillance

“The United States is one of the only countries to tax based on citizenship, not residency. And the U.S. government has tightened its rules in recent years to make it more difficult for Americans to evade taxes by hiding money offshore. For Americans who reside in foreign countries, that can make it more difficult to find financial institutions who will let them open accounts.”
Jacob Hornberger: The Revolutions of Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson

“The year the Declaration of Independence was signed — 1776 — was the same year that saw the publication of Adam Smith’s famous treatise on economics, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. That is quite a coincidence, one that had enormous ramifications for liberty.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/07/03/the-revolutions-of-adam-smith-and-thomas-jefferson/
Bill Bonner: Would the Founding Fathers Recognize Modern America?

“Empires are very different from republics. They are no longer by, for, and of the people. They’re too big… too complex… with too many fingers in too many pies for the people or their elected representatives to keep up with.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/would-the-founding-fathers-recognize-modern-america/
Homeland Security mass US citizen face-scanning program rolled out in Orlando

“The face scan expansion is costing the Orlando airport authority $4 million. The program should be rolled out at other airports in other U.S. cities in the next year.”
Read more: https://apnews.com/eade4e6efbf442328b0e1eefabd98f05
Google’s ‘principles’ on AI weapons, mass surveillence, and signing out

“At some point the wolf cannot say ‘I won’t eat you’ to sheep any longer with a straight face, because everybody knows for a fact that it eats sheep daily.”
Read more: http://fastml.com/googles-principles-on-ai-weapons-mass-surveillence-and-signing-out/
Be on the Lookout: Amazon Turns its Gaze to Surveillance

“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
Expect a police raid if ‘remote detonator’ is your Wi-Fi network name

“Nothing can be done to make the Wi-Fi naming wit change his or her alarming network name, [Saginaw Township Police Chief Donald] Pussehl said: it’s speech that’s protected under the First Amendment.”