A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales tax and send the revenue to DC.This deputizing of states to act as federal tax collectors violates the principles of federalism, especially since the plan forces states that have chosen not to make their residents pay sales taxes...
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Anti-Trump Bias in the Media? John Stossel Finds Plenty
“It’s clear that most reporters don’t like Trump — or even Republicans,” concludes John Stossel in his Wednesday article “Media Bias” at his website johnstossel.com. In the 2016...
Drug War Rollbacks on Voters’ Ballots in November
In March, I wrote about how coronavirus fear and government crackdowns undertaken in the name of countering coronavirus could be expected to prevent some drug war rollback...
The Coronavirus Crackdown Hour with Adam Dick
Saturday, I returned as a guest at the Patriot’s Lament show at KFAR radio of Fairbanks, Alaska. The one-hour interview with hosts Joshua Bennett and Michael Anderson is focused...
Walter Block, the Energizer Bunny of Academic Publications
Walter Block, like the Energizer Bunny of television adverts, keeps going and going and going. Block, a professor of economics at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana,...
The No-Compromise Texas Republican Party Resolution Telling the Republican Governor to Immediately End His Entire Coronavirus Crackdown
The Republican Party of Texas executive committee has taken a heroic action that could serve as an example for Republican and Democratic parties across America. It has adopted,...
Ron Paul Joins with other Eminent Political Figures to Call for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange
Ron Paul has joined with other eminent political figures from around the world in endorsing a letter from Lawyers for Assange to several government officials of Great Britain....
Crazy and Contemptible College Coronavirus Rules: Online-Only Student Who Is Never on Campus Suspended for Attending a Party
So you want to avoid the mask mandates, long lists of grim rules, administrators demanding strict adherence to these rules, and prison-like conditions that have become the norm...
Pentagon Sending Troops to Syria
The bizarre and erratic policies of President Trump continue. One minute the president is reducing troops in hot zones, a few minutes later he is sending troops into hot zones....
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