Sometime during this 117th U.S. Congress, the long-proposed “Fair Tax” will likely receive its first-ever floor vote in the House. A national sales tax, it would replace not only personal and corporate income taxes, but Social Security, Medicare, estate and gift taxes...
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Afghan Inspector General Warns US Likely to Repeat Mistakes in Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 28, 2023 | News
The inspector general for the Afghan War said the White House is replicating its failed Afghan War policies in Ukraine on Tuesday. John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), warned about American-made weapons falling into the wrong hands....
News Roundup 2/23/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 23, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia The UN Security Council on Tuesday held a meeting on the bombings of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany. AWC President Biden on Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin made a “big mistake” by suspending Russia’s...
With Russia’s Suspension of New START, the Future of Arms Control is Bleak
by Eric Gomez | Feb 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Nuclear arms control has had a very rough few years. The latest piece of bad news comes from Russia. Earlier this week, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia is “suspending its membership” in New START, a treaty that limits the number of deployed nuclear warheads and...
COI #387: We Live in John Bolton’s World
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 22, 2023 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #387, Kyle Anzalone breaks down Putin's announcement that Russia is suspending arms control with the US. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...
News Roundup 2/22/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 22, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday announced that Moscow is suspending its participation in New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia. AWC An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told POLITICO on...
Raising the Debt Ceiling Is An Anti-Social Policy
by Daniel Lacalle | Feb 22, 2023 | Featured Articles
Every time the United States reaches its debt limit, we read that it is important to reach an agreement to lift it. The narrative is that the debt ceiling must be raised, or the US economy will suffer a severe contraction. There is even an episode of a TV series,...
Putin Announces Suspension of New START Treaty
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 22, 2023 | News
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday announced that Moscow is suspending its participation in New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia.
GOP Hawks to Exploit Child Victims of War In Bid to Boost Ukraine Military Aid
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Feb 14, 2023 | News
Texas Republican Michael McCaul said he will organize congressional hearings to highlight alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, hoping the testimony will push some of his GOP colleagues to commit to additional military aid for Kiev.
News Roundup 2/8/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 8, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Key Republican members of Congress are launching a two-front campaign to pressure the Biden administration to send Ukraine more advanced weapons, Defense One reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the plan. AWC Several North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Sales Tax Is Still Theft
by Ron Paul | Feb 7, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales...
The Early Bird Stops the Central Bank’s Digital Currency Designs
by Connor O'Keeffe | Feb 6, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Whether you like it or not, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming. That’s the message in a recent tech column in the Wall Street Journal. A similar tone can be found coming from organizations like the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Fund,...
Bubbles R-Us
by David Stockman | Feb 2, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal today brings word that a professor Efraim Benmelech of the finance department at Northwestern University thinks the Fed is hurting housing and the consumer too much. Opined he, ...those higher interest rates are making mortgages more expensive...
Your Social Security Money Is GONE, Understand?
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 2, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
After French protestors took the street to complain about the increase in the retirement age, I read quite a few jokes in social media about how protesting in France is the local pastime. That may be true, but let it not be said that Americans don't feel very, very...
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Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
The Truth About Discrimination – Walter E. Williams
If people are free to discriminate in favor of, or against, a university or wine, what argument can be made against their having that same right with respect to choosing based on the race or sex characteristics of their mates, employees, tenants, or club members? If...
Black Youth Unemployment Before Democrats Started “Helping”
Although most people are familiar with more recent statistics on black youth unemployment, not many are aware of the black/white statistics for earlier periods. Table 3.2 (below) shows that in 1948, the two were roughly equal. For that year, blacks aged sixteen to...