Jeffrey Tucker: The Great Deficit Ruse
"It’s very bad parenting always to be ready to pay the kids’ debts. It’s similarly bad citizenship always to be willing to pay the government’s debts."
High taxes on legal pot in California could mean black market will thrive
"State and local taxes on marijuana could surpass 45% in some parts of California, jeopardizing efforts to bring all growers and sellers into a state-licensed market in January, according to the global credit ratings firm Fitch Ratings. The report said that increased enforcement may blunt the illegal market, 'but high taxes may complicate such efforts by diverting in-state sales to the black market.'"
Dancing Is Finally Legalized in New York City
"This cruel intervention was about more than just 'the man' prevailing over embattled minorities. It was designed to stop the race mixing that people associated with dance clubs."
Students Love Trump’s Tax Plan When They Think It Came From Bernie
"Students who said they were disappointed with President Trump's tax plan changed their tune on the actual details after being told they were ideas from Sen. Bernie Sanders. The students were all for small business tax cuts when told it was a policy being pushed by the former Democrat presidential candidate. One female student even mentioned her family's small business as a likely beneficiary."
Tax Hikers Are Getting More Open about Targeting the Middle Class
"Left-wing politicians usually pontificate about raising taxes on the rich, but the truly honest folks on the left openly admit that the real targets are lower-income and middle-class households."
Big-Spending Republicans Seek Tax Hikes on Blue States
"If your income is between $100,000 and $200,000, for example, those extra taxes may represent what you would have saved for your child’s college tuition, meaning you’ll have to borrow it instead. Or, it might mean the difference between hiring that extra employee to grow your small business. It’s precisely these people, who are by no means rich, who will bear the brunt of the GOP’s politically-motivated tax redistribution. And it just so happens that policies like this one further insulate the very richest 1 percent from the competition represented by upwardly mobile 10 percenters, many of whom work seven days a week to rise out of paycheck-to-paycheck, wage-earner status."
$500,000 settlement for nurse arrested for opposing forced blood draw
Body cam footage from the scene shows University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels calmly telling the officer, who was trained for the task of blood withdrawal, that he cannot take a blood sample because the patient, who was involved in a vehicle crash, had neither been arrested nor gave consent. Then the cop lunges and grabs the nurse as she was fearfully backing away. He rushes her outside the hospital, and handcuffs her. All the while, she's screaming that there's no reason for her detainment.
NSA wanted to use the Espionage Act to prosecute a journalist for using FOIA
"The declassified memos and briefings from NSA confirm that this was more than just an intimidation tactic or a passing thought - the NSA had truly wanted to jail a journalist for his use of public records. When the Agency determined that this was unlikely to happen, they moved on to exploring other legal avenues which could be used to punish Bamford for his FOIA work."
French Gov’t Has Paid Out Nearly $600,000 To ISIS Fighters In Syria
"Jihadis have claimed unemployment benefits and family allowance for years while living in Syria. Over the past five years, some 500,000 euros ($583,200) have gone directly from the French taxpayers to the terror group, according to the report. Other European countries have uncovered similar problems. Close to every person who left Sweden to fight for terror groups in the Middle East received welfare, according to a government report."
‘Dislike’ and ‘Unfriendliness’ Can Be Hate Crimes, UK Police Confirm
"National bodies, including the College of Policing (CoP) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), both admit there is an 'absence of a precise legal definition of hostility', with the latter also referring individual forces onto 'dictionary definitions' for the purpose of investigating hate crimes. Dictionary definitions include a wide range of normal human behaviours and emotions, and images on social media suggest police officers are being told to look out for 'unfriendliness' as a sign of a hate crime. The CPS also mentions 'ill-will, ill-feeling, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment, and dislike' as examples of hostility that could be taken from a dictionary."
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