The next shoe to drop: Internet sales tax to become reality

The next shoe to drop: Internet sales tax to become reality
PULSE | APRIL 23, 2013
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April 23, 2013 Phnom Penh, Cambodia Surprise, surprise… the completely insolvent US government has yet another idea to raise revenue in the Land of … Read more


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How Cubans’ Health Improved When Their Economy Collapsed

How Cubans’ Health Improved When Their Economy Collapsed
THE ATLANTIC | APRIL 18, 2013
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Enrique De La Osa/Reuters When Cuba’s benefactor, the Soviet Union, closed up shop in the early 1990s, it sent the Caribbean nation into an economic … Read more


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Taxation is theft — so why do Americans put up with it?

Taxation is theft — so why do Americans put up with it?
BEST OF NEWS | APRIL 18, 2013
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With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers’ taxable income, w… Read more


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Bombing News

I’ve shed a few tears today as I’ve listened to NPR coverage of the Boston bombings. I’m also more in touch with what the friends and families must be feeling in other countries from their losses due to war, terrorism, US drone strikes and military occupation. 

 

David Stockman: “The Great Deformation” | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR

David Stockman, the former budget director under President Ronald Reagan, says the economy will not improve until the United States rethinks its habits of borrowing, spending and money printing. His new book, “The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America,” argues that Washington has enabled Wall Street to fuel financial bubbles and alter the markets, all while crushing middle class families.

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via David Stockman: “The Great Deformation” | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR.