She always loses. Like that time she tripled and lost the war in Afghanistan. She could have been Obama's secretary of defense. The first woman(!) and everything. But no, she decided to wait so she could be appointed by Hillary Clinton and be a part of the big women...
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Christopher Tapp Suing Idaho Falls Police Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
by Scott Horton | Dec 28, 2019 | Blog
The cops, DAs and judges from Idaho Falls ought to all be caged like the criminals they are for the next 20 years to pay for what they did to this innocent man. Instead the same people responsible will be their own judges, will hand themselves immunity and then if...
The Police Are The Most Dangerous Criminals in Society
by Scott Horton | Nov 30, 2019 | Blog
All you gotta do is read the Free Thought Project: Autistic Boy Heartbroken After Cops Raid Wrong Home, Kill His Boxer Service Dog High-Ranking Officer Arrested on Over 600 Counts of Child Sexual Abuse Taxpayers to Be Held Liable After Cop Shows Up to Mass Shooting,...
Innocent Man Rots In Jail For Two Years on False Charges
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
Easily disprovable false charges, as they eventually were. It goes without saying, but should be said that not one person involved in this travesty will ever be held accountable for their crimes in any way. Not the bearer of false witness, not the cops, not the DAs,...
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q2 2019
by Steven Woskow | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog
Wolf Richter at Wolf Street. Consumer credit – auto loans, student loans, and revolving credit such as credit card balances and personal loans, but not housing-related debt such as mortgages and HELOCs – grew 5.4%, or by $208 billion, in the second quarter compared to...
Taxation is (really complicated) Theft
by Steven Woskow | Jul 11, 2019 | Blog
The Taxpayer Advocate Service just released a road map of the "modern" US tax system and just as you might expect it is a mess of government agencies (that don't communicate with each other), rules and laws that the average person is just not going to take the time to...
Farm Bill Follies
by Norman Singleton | Dec 24, 2018 | Blog
Here is a detailed summary of the policies and politics of the Farm Bill that passed Congress last week. Details of the 800-page bill were kept under wraps until last Monday night. The reason might have been that, in the words of House Agricultural Committee Ranking...
Tax-bloated Border Bandit Fuels Mercedes on Taxpayer Dime
by David Hathaway | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog
Juan Fernando Barajas was arraigned this month for using ten government fuel cards to pump more than $1,700 worth of fuel into his personal black Mercedes-Benz SUV. The Nogales-based U.S. border officer also appeared to be fueling his personal F-150 extended cab...
Tax Code Complexity Now Costs U.S. Economy up to $1 Trillion Annually
by Philip Schlosser | Dec 12, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles
74,608 pages, 2.4 million words. That is the present size of Title 26 of the U.S. Code, i.e. the “Internal Revenue Code.” One would think this would be nearly impossible for an enterprise wielding an army of tax experts to absorb, let alone the average taxpayer....
Is the Government’s Budget Equal to GDP?
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 8, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman
Memo to news people: tax cuts don't have to be paid for. The money is ours; the government takes it from us by threat of force, i.e., taxation. It's government programs that have to be paid for. Tax cuts are not government programs. So if you want to ask how...
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ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
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