“The only thing the bureaucratic resistance hates more than President Trump is the disclosure of their own salaries. It’s a classic case of the bureaucracy protecting the bureaucracy, underscoring the resistance faced by the new administration.”
“Mnuchin, speaking at a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, said he has spoken personally with Trump about the issue, and that the president ‘does feel strongly’ that the tax should be applied.”
Read more: http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/donald-trump-online-sales-tax/
“The Trump administration wants $716 billion for defense in 2019. Have we totally lost our minds? We already spend more on defense than the next eight countries combined — and President Trump believes we need more.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-military-spending-budget-20180215-story.html
“The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 permanently erases those spending limits, while authorizing far more spending than would ever have been considered while the Tea Party movement held sufficient political influence to stop it. As a result, the U.S. government’s budget deficits for 2018 and 2019 appear set to grow the levels that the Congressional Budget Office had projected for its more realistic alternative fiscal scenario following President Obama’s spending proposals back in 2010.”
Read more: http://www.mygovcost.org/2018/02/12/the-end-of-the-tea-party/
“Lyn Ulbricht is Ross Ulbricht’s mother. Ross was the creator of the Silk Road website, which had a very important role in the history of bitcoin. Currently, Ross is serving a double life sentence without parole for all non-violent charges. Lyn has worked to bring awareness to the case and raise funds for Ross’s defense through www.FreeRoss.org. She has had many media interviews and public appearances and has helped bring awareness to the public of the case and Ross’s appeals. Her efforts have shined light into the darkness of the justice system, proving it to be a darker place than anywhere found on the dark web.”
“Take a program that lets a public employee earn both a pension and a salary at the same time. Add an extremely generous disability leave and workers’ compensation program that allows public employees to be paid while not working for months or even years on end. What do you get? Massive corruption, obviously.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/05/its-not-enough-to-get-paid-for-not-worki
“Heath Hall left his position with the Federal Railroad Administration after reports surfaced that he also was working as a public-relations consultant for the Madison County, Miss., sheriff’s office.”
“Many people don’t understand that school officials aren’t necessarily doing what’s best for a kid, and that they are likely to bring in law enforcement if they suspect a crime has been committed. And sharing sexually charged images of minors—even consensually, even if the people doing the sharing are themselves minors—is a felony.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/02/07/teen-sexting-school-cop-arrested-porn
“The government has big plans and the most outrageous part about this entire scheme is you don’t have a choice – your data is entered.”
“Treatments with no side effects, but which might not help, are considered worse than methadone and buprenorphine. 3,400 people died from methadone overdoses in 2014. The CDC does not track deaths from Buprenorphine. The American government financed clinical trials of Buprenorphine. It cost $28 million to win FDA approval. This is another story of the revolving door of doctors who go in and out of the FDA and private practices pushing and prescribing drugs. The FDA gave the company a seven-year monopoly on Buprenorphine. Over 10% of doctors authorized to prescribe it were sanctioned for misbehavior, including insurance fraud and excessive opioid prescribing.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/fda-treats-homeopathy-as-more-dangerous-than-opioids/