Federal Judge Eviscerates Albuquerque’s ‘Asset Forfeiture’ Racket

“A federal judge has ruled that Albuquerque’s civil asset forfeiture program violated residents’ due process rights by forcing them to prove their innocence to retrieve their cars. Under civil forfeiture laws, police can seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner isn’t charged with a crime.”

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/30/federal-judge-rules-albuquerques-asset-f

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Fear of Lawsuits Actually Does Result in Unnecessary Medical Procedures

“The possibility of a lawsuit increased the intensity of health care that patients received in the hospital by about 5 percent — and those patients who got the extra care were no better off.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/upshot/malpractice-lawsuits-medical-costs.html

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Amid exploding wait times, California DMV operator slept 2,200 hours on the job

“A California DMV employee went to sleep at her desk for three or more hours every day for nearly four years, according to a new state audit.”

Read more: https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/water-cooler/state-report-california-dmv-worker-slept-thousands-of-hours-on-the-job

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US breaks up phone scam where fake government agents believably extorted victims

“The fraudulent calls came suddenly and frequently while the scam was active from 2012 to 2016, according to court documents. A person posing as an Internal Revenue Service or immigration official was on the phone, threatening arrest, deportation or other penalties if the victims did not immediately pay their debts with prepaid cards or wire transfers.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/business/irs-phone-scams-jeff-sessions.html

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Trump says ‘tariffs are the greatest!’ as Harley-Davidson offshores operations

“The company has said the tariffs will add $30 million to $45 million to its expenses for the rest of the year, costs which Harley-Davidson has said it will absorb as it plans to move operations overseas.”

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-trump-tariff-threats-20180724-story.html

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Perpetual U.S. Wars, Explained In 140 Seconds

“In 1935, USMC Major General Smedley Butler warned the world that ‘War is a racket. It always has been…'”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-22/perpetual-war-explained-140-seconds

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Are Corporate America’s Buybacks A Scam?

“By contrast, institutional investors and hedge funds have been net sellers of stocks in 2018.”

Read more: https://banyanhill.com/corporate-americas-buybacks-scam/

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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.”

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2018/07/22/lets-be-blunt-internet-sales-taxes-are-economy-sapping-domestic-tariffs/

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Former Fed officials lament taxpayers’ inability to see necessity of bank bailouts

“The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, ‘I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'”

Read more: https://apnews.com/f0c5c2a63f16473e999f64312039dbe2

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Federal court: TSA agents can’t be sued for false arrests, abuse, or assault

“According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/11/17562228/tsa-agents-sued-false-arrests-abuse-assault-federal-court-ruling-pellegrino

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