A recent analysis of IRS tax data reveals what many of us anticipated years ago: that Obamacare not only raised insurance costs and limited choices, but its penalty regime is slamming the Americans whom leftists ceaselessly coddle in their class envy speeches.
Indeed, the amorphous yet politically useful “working class” is getting nailed.
As Jed Graham writes for Investor’s:
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Among the many axioms in political-economics, two stand out.
The first is that government penalties against voluntary business will inspire those who engage in that business to either flee, or go into the black market. The second is that anything politicians claim “the people want” can and should be left to “the people” to support, by employing their own money and personal resources on it;…
In a case that is much more important, and runs much deeper, than the superficial claims of the pop media might portray, a 72-year-old florist working in Washington State has petitioned for her “discrimination” case to be heard by the US Supreme Court.
On Friday, July 14, Baronelle Stutzman, proprietor of Arlene’s Flowers, in Richland, Washington, and her attorney filed a petition with the U.S…
Guess what? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is doing something else to trample your rights.
Sure, it sounds crazy. After all, how could the omnivorous, omnipresent, redundant, self-congratulatory, not-constitutionally-sanctioned-unless-during-declared-War department that gave us the caring hands of the unconstitutional, rights-breaching, and so far useless Transportation “Security”…
It’s often illuminating to keep an eye out for moments when people fail to distinguish between public property and private property, and the instances when they don’t understand the concept of rights, and a recent federal court ruling brings all of these factors to bear.
On July 7, US District Court Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed a complaint filed by three University of Texas professors in their…
Before we dive into the breaking story, let’s step back a few months.
Canny observers of political events often have the capacity to act like seasoned trackers from stories of the American Old West. They kneel, put an ear to the news landscape, hear rumbling, and tell you precisely how many political bison are charging over the plains to crush your wagon train.
And late last summer, a…
One wonders what Alice Cooper might think of this.
Under the wise and cosmic eye of his Holy Mighty Highness, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the wondrous government of Chicago has carried through with a threat – er, “plan” – to stop all city high schoolers from graduating if they don’t have their own, government-approved “plan” for life upon graduation.
Windy City, meet Oceania.
Indeed, like Orwell’s “…
Few people accuse politicians of being genuinely self-effacing. From Al Gore claiming he introduced the bill that made the internet possible (hint: it already existed), to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s seemingly inexhaustible ability to look like an arrogant feudal lord by doing things like hanging out with buddies and family on a beach state government closed to everyone else, conceit…
Perhaps Mainers passed this one in memory of Independence Day.
On June 20, Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed into law LD 725, entitled, “An Act to Recognize Local Control Regarding Food Systems,” also known as the Food Sovereignty Act.
The bill would allow localities to set their own standards for locally grown and sold foods, thus eliminating the state licensing and food inspection shakedowns.…
So, I’m a writer. Hopefully, that comes through not only in the fact that I’m setting caveman fingers to keys, and you’re reading the results, but also in the quality of what I write, the idea that it has value. I write non-fiction on political economics and ethics. But what some folks don’t know is that I also write scripts, short stories, novels, and novellas. As a result, I’ve become…
