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Time for the IRS to Come Clean | Cato Institute

A congressional oversight committee recently renewed its request for documents from an ethically suspect Internal Revenue Service, which ignores such requests with impunity. But this time, the Supreme Court has taken away the agency’s excuse for not cooperating. In 2014, the IRS began imposing the individual and employer mandates on 70 million Americans even though the Affordable Read More
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Bibinomics: la lezione di Netanyahu — di Lukas Dvorak – LeoniBlog

Mentre Maria Elena Boschi ha passato i mesi di Maggio e Giugno a dichiarare che “Spagna e Israele stanno studiando la nuova Legge Elettorale italiana per copiarla” (senza indicare da quale fonte questa certezza proviene visto che il Jerusalem Post, in un articolo del 19 Marzo, considerava l’Italia un’anomalia democratica), nel corso di una cena Read More
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Proprio sicuri che fare deficit produca crescita? – il Blog di Carlo Lottieri

#DeficitSpending/PublicDebt           dossier:
06set 15 Proprio sicuri che fare deficit produca crescita? Nelle scorse ore, intervenendo a Cernobbio, il premier Matteo Renzi ha cercato di giustificare il ritardo dell’Italia rispetto a Spagna e Regno Unito sostenendo che a Madrid negli ultimi tre anni la media del deficit si è tenuta sul 6%, mentre Cameron ha portato il deficit Read More
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Immigrants Aren’t the Only Ones Who Shouldn’t Be Voting | Mises Institute

Much of the current immigration debate in the United States centers around the issue of “amnesty,” which is a vague term that may mean anything from “we won’t deport you” to “let’s fast-track you to citizenship and voting rights.” From a laissez-faire perspective, the deportation aspect of amnesty — an increase in federal inaction — Read More
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Still Gridlocked after All These Years | Cato Institute

Despite controlling both houses of Congress, Republicans haven’t been able to agree on a highway-and-transit bill. Instead, when the previous law expired on May31, they passed a short-term extension that expires at the end of this month, when they’ll probably pass another short-term extension. Traditionally, transportation laws sunset and must be renewed every six years. Read More
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In Spagna c’è chi si oppone all’idea di sussidiare l’ozio. E da noi?

Grillini, Sel, minoranza pd, parte della Lega fino ad arrivare a Podemos dicono che il sussidio di disoccupazione è la soluzione a tutti i nostri problemi. I dubbi sulla sua efficacia, però, sono tanti. E allora Ciudadanos propone l’Eitc. Ecco come funziona Il “reddito di cittadinanza” è la proposta di riforma del welfare più pop Read More
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Anche nel Medioevo ci si ribellava contro il fisco – IlGiornale.it

#TAXATION, +Libertarian Activism          
Dalle Fiandre, alla Francia, alla Toscana si organizzavano rivolte non tanto contro il pane,ma per motivi più evoluti: trasparenza, rappresentanza, equità Anche sette, otto secoli fa, in pieno Medioevo, ci si ribellava contro il fisco. Dalle Fiandre, alla Francia, alla Toscana – le regioni più evolute sotto il profilo economico, nelle quali l’industria aveva un Read More
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Has Obama Already Bankrupted America? at US Action News

Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” – Senator Barack Obama     By Michael Whipple, Editor usACTIONnews.com National debt per citizen has grown from about $34,083 per person to ,529 Read More
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“Government Is Waging A Perpetual War Against Human Nature… They Can Never Win” | Zero Hedge

Submitted by Martin Armstrong via Armstrong Economics blog, The one war that never ends is how people constantly try to fight the trend. The ECB will buy bad government debt they created instead of doing what was necessary from the start – consolidate all state debt. That would have enabled the Euro to be a Read More
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Global Tax Increasers | Cato Institute

§Global Economy, #TAXATION           dossier:
Do you approve of Congress spending your hard-earned tax dollars on an international organization that lobbies governments, including the U.S. government, to raise taxes? The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) was originally created to collect and publish economic data, and to promote policies that encourage trade among its members. But over the last two decades, it has Read More

▶ Great Myths of the Great Depression!

www.fee.org/articles/great-myths-of-the-­great-depression/ Many volumes have been written about the Great Depression of 1929-1941 and its impact on the lives of millions of Americans. Historians, economists and politicians have all combed the wreckage searching for the “black box” that will reveal the cause of the calamity. Sadly, all too many of them decide to abandon their search, Read More