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Apr 05
Vermont and New Jersey legislatures have been hiking taxes; their residents are fleeing
In Vermont, taxes have recently been raised on home heating oil, mutual funds, banks, drivers, and businesses who don’t provide health insurance to employees. Consequently, thousands of Vermonters have fled the state over the past decade. In New Jersey, more than two million people have left after two decades of ever-higher taxes and outrageous spending …
Apr 05
Analysts now wondering if U.S. government leaked the ‘Panamanian Papers’
Yesterday’s headlines blared with news about leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm which show major world government leaders have been laundering money in secret off-shore bank accounts. In some cases, billions of dollars appear to have been siphoned from impoverished taxpayers around the globe to enrich the secret (tax-free) bank accounts of government officials. …
Apr 04
Overpaid Detroit Public School Administrators Caught Skimming Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of ‘School Supply’ Money
Detroit public schools have exacted enormous funds from their surrounding taxpayers yet underperformed for decades. Now it emerges that some overpaid Detroit Public School Administrators have been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for ‘school supplies’ to themselves. See here. One Detroit principle accepted nearly $60,000 in bribes from a school vendor. The Detroit …
Apr 04
World government leaders are laundering and hiding money from the regulations they impose on others
High taxes, cops on almost every streetcorner, and burdensome regulations are the norm worldwide. Yet a USA Today report documents that numerous ‘world leaders’ have been caught hiding money in offshore private bank accounts. In some cases, the money hidden away by these government officials was looted directly from government accounts gorged with funds from …
Apr 03
New Study finds no evidence whatsoever that polar bears are suffering from climate change
A central claim in Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” is that polar bear populations are threatened or dwindling due to manmade global warming. The various versions of the UN IPCC Reports also repeat this claim. But a new exhaustive study by Canadian scientists finds there is no evidence to support this claim whatsoever. See …
Apr 03
In the trucking industry, government is demanding what the industry is already doing
Government bureaucrats frequently spot good ideas being implemented in the private sector, and then try to show they are doing something by mandating that the private sector must do what it is already doing. The intrusive mind of the tyrant never pauses. Consider the trucking industry, which is filled with business owners and operators who …
Apr 02
Another Government-Subsidized ‘Green’ Energy Company Fails
For years, trusters of government have promoted ‘green’ energy schemes by which the government subsidizes so-called alternative energy technology. The goal, supposedly, is to build up solar, wind and other alternative-energy industries, until they can compete with (and ultimately displace) fossil fuels. It never works. Solar and wind sources cannot stand on their own against …
Apr 01
U.S. Postal Service has every advantage; yet still loses a billion dollars annually
Government sucks at almost everything. Its “goods and services” cost more and are of lower quality despite the fact that the government enjoys every possible advantage in the marketplace. Consider the U.S. Postal Service. It has been losing a billion dollars annually for years. Yet “it enjoys a range of government-conferred benefits. It has monopolies …
Apr 01
Too much government; a million too few doctors
CBS Marketwatch has published a frightening report of America’s near future. Americans will face a doctor shortage of up to a million physicians as overregulation, overinsurance and stupid government “health care” mandates and subsidies take their tolls. See here. Government overregulation subsidizes demand without increasing supply causing prices to rise. The poor have been largely …
Mar 31
Government has been pouring on regulations to ‘help the poor,’ yet the poor and minorities are poorer than ever
Government supremacists routinely argue for more government to ‘help the poor.’ Yet government regulations invariably harm the poor and cement the positions of the rich. Since the beginning of 21st century, the U.S. government has become increasingly “progressive”: with more regulations, higher tax rates, and a greater tax burden on ‘the rich.’ Yet “acccording to …
