Jan 29

Government solutions after government poisoned thousands in Flint: Send money to fund more government!

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Unlike a private business, which loses money and goes bankrupt after providing bad service, government agencies generally benefit from failure and crisis. Failure means even more money and power!

Good money after bad. Here is an Associated Press article about Michigan lawmakers passing a bill to take $28 million more from taxpayers to divert to the Flint, Michigan tainted-water situation.

Flint has been controlled by extreme pro-government-expansion politicians for decades. They ran the city into the ground and then poisoned the community with toxic lead-polluted water.

These are the same social parasites who decry privatization and talk about how bad it would be if greedy profiteers ever provided water to the citizenry.

An Infowars expose’ detailed the millions upon millions of dollars of government spending that is being recommended with a straight face by government cheerleaders like Michael Moore. The antidote to the “greed” of the private sector, according to Moore.

Jan 29

FCC moves to require radio and cable networks to report all political advertising to the government

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All who question, discuss, or criticize the government must identify themselves to the government.

That is the direction the FCC is moving in. Yesterday, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) ordered that all radio, cable and Satellite stations report the identity of all political ad purchasers to the government.

See here.

In the past, governments have sought out those who publish dissenting political flyers or brochures for torture, prosecution or execution.

Jan 28

Turkish prosecutors seek life sentences for journalists who offended Turkish president

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Freedom of press is among the most precious of rights. Always in danger, especially from governments pushing “national security” rationales.

Now two reporters whose reporting offended Turkish president Erdogan are in danger of being imprisoned for the rest of their lives. See here.

Of course, the prosecutors are alleging the journalists “revealed state secrets.”

Specifically, the reporters broke the story that Erdogan was apparently shipping arms to “Islamists” in Syria.

This by itself was bombshell news. But the details are even more startling. Some observers point to evidence that Erdogan was planning a “false flag” attack on himself (or Turkey), staged by the Syrian “Islamists” he was funding. See Infowars coverage here.

Is it any wonder these reporters must be punished?

Jan 27

Bozeman Chronicle Finally Produces Evidence of Montana’s “Dark Money” “Corruption”: Politicians May have Approved of Volunteer Efforts Which Political Police Liken to ‘Contributions’ (!)

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle is, arguably, Montana’s most extreme pro-government publication. For years, the newspaper has poured out steady support for government control over political messaging under the auspices of campaign-finance regulation. (‘The private sector must never defend itself from regulation!’)

It is rare that one reads the word “shadowy” outside the editorial pages of a newspaper. But the Chronicle has printed the word in actual “news” reports about some of Montana’s private political advocacy groups. The Chronicle has probably printed the phrase “dark money” on hundreds of occasions while describing Montana’s political landscape. The Chronicle has even printed the word “corruption” in stories about politicians who dared to allow nonprofit groups to support or echo their messaging. (‘How dare they!’)

It is doubtful that the BDC’s readers have a good grasp of what the Chronicle has been hinting at; but a reader would be forgiven for thinking the Chronicle had unearthed some scandal involving secret bribery under darkness of night.

Now, after years of reporting on the “shadowy” world of private-sector political advocacy, the Chronicle has revealed its evidence (see here):

thousands of pages of documents obtained by Montana Political Czar Jon Motl indicating that Right-to-work groups “provided services and labor to certain candidates [also known as volunteer work] without disclosing [to the government] what was done or how much was spent.”

“In some cases, the documents show, those groups gave away those services for free.”

Oh my!

Jan 26

After government poisoned Flint, private companies donate clean water. Government trusters complain that this “sends the wrong message.”

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Government officials purportedly “in charge” of Flint, Michigan ran the City into the ground after decades of corruption. Then the government secretly exposed the people of Flint to polluted, lead-contaminated drinking water.

Yet those who trust and worship intrusive, expansive government are now complaining that Wal-Mart, Pepsi, Nestle, and Coca-Cola are offering to provide free water to the residents of Flint, Michigan for the rest of the year! See here.

If these for-profit private corporations are allowed to donate water to Flint’s residents, according to a writer for The Atlantic, the residents “may find that the private sector has supplanted many of government’s functions” (!)

As Reason Magazine’s Robbie Sloave writes:

Is government-managed delivery of public goods really an absolute moral necessity, even if the government is bad at delivering said public goods?

Jan 26

Total Government Failure: Detroit Public Schools Spend as Much on Debt Service as Salaries & Benefits

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Socialism is a curse that should be wished on one’s enemies.

Markets always win in the end, and no big-government welfare state can outlive its financial irresponsibility.

Here is a story about a public school system that has overpaid teachers and administrators so much for so many years that interest payments on its debts now approach the same costs as current salaries and benefits.

And these interest payments have been required in a period of low interest. Imagine what will happen when interest rates rise!

Jan 26

More corporations fleeing high U.S. tax rates

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The U.S., once the global flagship of capitalism, now has the world’s highest corporate tax rates.

The New York Times reported this week that Johnson Controls is renouncing its U.S. corporate citizenship by selling itself to Tyco International, based in Ireland.

This is designed to reduce the company’s tax bill, which it said should drop by about $150 million annually.

The Times, known as a “progressive,” high-tax-promoting newspaper, reported that “Until Washington lawmakers reform the tax code, we will continue to see an exodus of American companies from our shores in search of a lower tax rate.” See here.

Jan 25

Who Needs Data? TIME Magazine already predicting 2016 will be the hottest year on record!

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Climatedepot.com reports that TIME Magazine recently (before 2016 even began) pronounced that 2016 will be the “hottest year on record.” See here.

Jan 25

Edward Snowden Exposes French “ISIS” Video as Fake

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The CIA and other western intelligence agencies have been producing fake “Islamist” videos for years. Edward Snowden recently tweeted that a recent widely-viewed “ISIS” video was actually produced by “SITE,” a CIA front group. See here.

Jan 23

Government purports to issue “travel ban” for New York City

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Under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, every person has freedom of movement and travel. Such rights are fundamental, natural rights, and it was once understood that any person had a right to use violence against any government official who tried to interfere with them. Including deadly violence if necessary.

(Don’t believe me? Read Roger Roots’ “The Originalist Case for the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule” (providing numerous court citations from the 1800s).)

On January 23, 2016, various government officials in New York–including at least the governor and the mayor of New York City–purported to issue a “travel ban” for the people of the City, in response to a massive snow storm. News outlets like the USA Today seemed to report this story as nothing unusual. See here.

The NYC mayor, known as an extreme socialist and powermonger, decreed that parents would be “permitted” to let their children play in the snow, but only near their homes under tight supervision.

New York Police Department officials tweeted that citizens, . . .er, subjects caught out on the streets would be arrested.

The Weekly Standard seemed to recognize the “ban” for what it was: a declaration of martial law in response to a snowstorm:

Martial law has been declared in New York City.

See here.