Stories about people who are useless to society.
back in 2009. Forbes explains the recent ruling: The 5-4 decision found the individual mandate at the heart of the law was a tax and therefore allowable under Congress’ constitutional power to levy taxes. Roberts joined the conservative wing in finding the law otherwise would have violated the Commerce Clause, however, by exceeding the...
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Jack Hunter claims Rand Paul “had” to endorse Romney. Mike Adams claims Rand Paul is lying in his endorsement in an attempt to insert himself into a position of power. An article on the Daily Paul also claims the same thing. Dan McCarthy of the American Conservative claims this is simply retail politics that doesn’t mean anything. Economist...
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One more reason to reject the state entirely. You can’t count on any politician to actually abide by their own principles. Obviously I will not be voting this election cycle, but if someone held a gun to my head and forced me to pull a lever, I’d probably vote for Obama. At least with...
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The “anarchist” website 325.nostate recently issued a proclamation that declares a guerrilla war against Olympic organizers, “In the United Kingdom of clockwork control and domestication, we’re some of the ‘unpatriotic ones’ who find the 2012 Olympics, with the ensuing spectacle of wealth (when so many here struggle to feed themselves and their families), harmful developments and escalating police...
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“precisely the person I would want to turn around a failing business like our government.” I’m not sure what is going on here, but that wasn’t the brightest thing for him to say. Does he honestly believe a socialist like Romney is the best person to turn around our government? Is he shooting for...
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Anyone with the temerity to claim that carbon taxes will increase prices will be held accountable for their grievous thought crimes; to the tune of 1.1 million dollars, so sayeth the Australian state. A new law goes into effect July 1st, which mandates that: ”If a business claims that a price is linked to the carbon price, that...
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Robert Wenzel notes: We make not get liberty because of the Ron Paul campaign run, but it sure looks like Ron Paul campaign manager, Jesse Benton, got the big bucks. Benton’s total income from the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign and PACs, in the 2012 election cycle, is at least $586,616, EPJ has learned. According to Open...
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A great video short that compares numerous clips of Obama and Romney saying the exact same things on every issue imaginable. For a comparison, listen to Ron Paul’s response to the same issues.
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Caplan writes: What I deny is that the artificially stimulated investments have any tendency to become malinvestments. Supposedly, since the central bank’s inflation cannot continue indefinitely, it is eventually necessary to let interest rates rise back to the natural rate, which then reveals the underlying unprofitability of the artificially stimulated investments. The objection is...
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The Curse of the Withholding Tax Austrian economist, Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), in his 1971 article “Milton Friedman unraveled“: One of Friedman’s most disastrous deeds was the important role he proudly played, during World War II in the Treasury Department, in foisting upon the suffering American public the system of the withholding tax. Before World War II,...
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