Predatory Feds Want to Go after Farm Tractors

Is there nothing they won’t consider harassing us over? Do they not realize they are killing the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg? Once all private enterprise is crushed, whom will they leech off of? A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses. [...]

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New Jersey Wants to Seize Unused Gift Card Funds

Do you think you have the right to toss a gift card in a drawer for a couple of years and use it later? What, do you think the money is yours or something? Seriously, this is the equivalent of the completely busted-out state rummaging under the sofa cushions for random change. And it presses [...]

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Federal Bureaucrats Want to Tax Rainwater Runoff

The headline and lead paragraph of the original blog entry mention President Obama, but this isn’t about him. This is about the ever-growing federal leviathan, which grows regardless of the identity of the party stooge at center stage. Would President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on “rainwater runoff” from homes [...]

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Shock: House of Representatives Upholds Constitution

The Food Safety Act, which would have placed draconian restrictions on small farmers while favoring mega-corporations like Monsanto and Tyson Foods, has run into trouble in Congress, and the reason is that the House has decided to defend its authority to be the sole originator of direct taxes. As reported by The Hill: Senate Democrats [...]

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IRS Harassing Jewish Group over Its Stance on Israel

This is what happens when religious organizations accept the 30 pieces of silver known as 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. If a religious organization doesn’t want to be harassed by the IRS over what it teaches or advocates, it shouldn’t accept the tax cut. Most religious organizations in the U.S., though, can’t resist the boost in [...]

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Al Gore Calls Climate Change ‘The New Global Terror’

Is this guy ever going to shut up and go away? Maybe he’s running around preaching his gospel in India because he can’t travel anywhere in the U.S. without being jeered at and mocked. One thing he’s got right: If you label something—anything—as terrorism, you can claim the moral high ground, shut down reasoned debate, [...]

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Ireland Being Dragged Kicking into IMF Debt Servitude

Members of Ireland’s Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin are understandably irate that their own government has sold them into debt slavery. Ireland is in the process of being IMF’d—stripped of its assets and sovereignty, its people impoverished and enslaved by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.  Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of [...]

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San Francisco Expects ‘Infinite’ Retirement Spending

At what point does the economic collapse and the looting of the private sector by the public sector become laughable? Consider this. “Infinite” is not a word you expect to find in a report on municipal spending. It’s more of a science fiction–type term — Tremble, Earthling, before the infinite might of Galaxor! But there [...]

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Climate Change Is a $528 Billion Global Industry

This story is for anyone who’s still laboring under the delusion that those pushing for a carbon tax are doing so out of concern for you and me and our environment. THE global climate change industry is now worth more than $528bn, powered by China’s rise as one of the top nations for climate revenues. [...]

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U.S. Health Commissar Tries to Squelch Dissent

Even if the health insurance industry is correct in saying that the Health Care Act has forced an increase in premiums, no one can be allowed to say as much. To do so would be to inform the serfs that they’ve been royally screwed, and that would threaten the security of the party of parasites [...]

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