“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.”
“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.”
“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/
“AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion.”
“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.”
“The NTIA said that its assessment rested ‘in large part on China’s record of intelligence activities and economic espionage targeting the US, along with China Mobile’s size and technical and financial resources.'”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/us-government-asks-fcc-to-deny-china-mobiles-license-request.html
“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
“Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to ‘spin’ information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland’s mayor.”
“They were concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration was preventing them from carrying out the agency’s other duties.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/latino/394757-more-than-a-dozen-ice-agents-call-to-abolish-agency
“Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/27/do-immigrants-have-the-right-to-pursue-happiness/