Man's Home Taken Over $134 Property Tax BillOne of the many reasons the gubmit wants everyone to "own" a home. |
Marc Faber Warns "Western Imperial Arrogance Will Ignite Middle-East "Powder-Keg"As usual, Gloom, Boom, and Doom's Marc Faber pulls no punches in this brief interview on CNBC's Futures Now. When asked what is the catalyst for the crash he expects in US equity markets (following crashes in various markets around the world), he shocks a stunned anchor looking at equity markets near all-time highs with some ugly truths - "interest rates are no longer a tail-wind, earnings growth is not there, and emerging economies are collapsing (so no global growth)." However... (more)
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State trooper accused of over-billing for his side businessHe tried to run his businesses like his fellow cronies run their government. |
Gov't Forces Businesses to Overcharge Customers
Consumers and entrepreneurs--not the government--should decide how much a ride from a car service should cost. Consumers need the government protecting them from affordable prices as much as they need a government agency protecting them from pillows that are too soft. Government-imposed minimum-fare rules don't help consumers. All they do is increase costs, stifle innov... (more)
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The Price Is Right ... and the Taxes Are High"There's no such thing as a free lunch" ...unless you are the taxman in this situation, then you are getting a free lunch at some plebs' expense. - Chris |
How Bitcoin is Reinventing The Monetary System: Q&A with Laissez Faire Books' Jeffrey Tucker
"We're talking about reinventing the world's monetary system...from the ground up," says Jeffrey Tucker, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books, and an enthusiastic proponent of the open source peer-to-peer currency system Bitcoin.
After participating in a panel discussion on Bitcoin at Freedom Fest, Tucker sat down with Reason Magazine's Matt Welch to expl... (more)
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Americans Giving Up Passports Jump Sixfold as Tougher Rules LoomAmericans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008.
The U.S., the only ... (more)
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Raw Milk Farmer on Trial for Keeping Eggs 'Too Cold'Hard to believe anyone would want to leave such a "free" country. |
"Startup Cities," Honduras, and Experiments in Freedom. Professor Tom W. Bell Talks With Reason.
"I often hear friends of liberty, classical liberals, libertarians say bad things about democracy, and I understand why," says Tom W. Bell. "It's not very good at building programs. But it is good at getting rid of things. In a 'corrective democracy,' people only vote against particular laws."
Bell, a law professor at Chapman University and a legal consultant... (more)
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Detroit Broke CityIt should come as no surprise that the lessons that should be learned from the bankruptcy of Detroit, a city that once stood as the shining example of America's industrial might, are being ignored by the American political establishment and its allies in the docile press corps. While the death spiral of the Motor City may be extreme in relation to conditions throughout the country, it is a difference of degree rather than design. In truth, Detroit is our canary in the coal mine. It is succumbing... (more)
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What Does Heart Surgery Really Cost, And Why Is It 70 Times More Expensive In The US?Indian philanthropist and cardiac surgeon, Devi Prasad Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. As Bloomberg notes, Shetty is not a public health official motivated by charity. He's a heart surgeon turned businessman who has started a chain of 21 medical centers around India. By trimming costs, he has cut the price of artery-clearin... (more)
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Feds vs. Raisins: Small Farmers Stand Up to the USDA
"They want us to pay for our own raisins that we grew," says Raisin Valley Farms owner Marvin Horne. "We have to buy them back!"
This is but one absurdity that Marvin and his wife Laura have faced during their decade-long legal battle with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Every year, the Hornes plant seeds, tie vines, harvest fruit... (more)
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: How Commerce Dept. Spent $2.7 Million Cleaning Out Two Malware-Infected ComputersThe cyber-Pearl Harbor is upon us and the only way to defeat it is to sink our own ships at the first sign of invasion. This is the sort of thing that happens when the legislators and advisors with the loudest voices value paranoia over rational strategy. The Department of Commerce, aided by a tragicomic string of error... (more)
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