Showing posts with label fees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fees. Show all posts
New Police State Tools Detects Texting While Driving
by Jonathan O'Callaghan. A new revenue-producer for local for politicians. Texting while driving can be incredibly dangerous and in most countries it is completely outlawed. That doesn’t stop some thoughtless motorists from trying to compose a message while flying along a motorway, though, increasing the chance of a fatal accident. ... MORE
U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%
by Robert W. Wood. Government looks to cash in on bonanza. Over the last two years, the U.S. has had a spike in expatriations.
It isn’t exactly Ellis Island in reverse, but it’s more than a dribble.
With global tax reporting and FATCA, the list of the individuals who renounced is up. For 2013, there was a 221% increase, with record numbers of ... MOREEx-Policeman Balks At "Indiscriminate Revenue Gathering"
Tells how to beat the rap on speeding tickets. My name is Stan. I am a retired Sergeant of the Police force for 14 years. I was also a police prosecutor at times, so I know what I am talking about. I spent half my life in Magistrates Court during my time in the Force. I was only ever a very fair copper, and I am proud of my time in the job, ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Stealing of America
By the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress. Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees or fines—but the only word that truly describes the constant bilking of the American taxpayer by the government and its corporate partners is theft. We’re operating in a topsy-turvy Sherwood Forest where instead of Robin Hood and ... MOREPeter Schiff: Debt Is No Salvation
Credit is destroying what savings built. Thus far 2014 has been a fertile year for really stupid economic
ideas. But of all the half-baked doozies that have come down the pike
(the perils of “lowflation,” Thomas Piketty’s claims about capitalism
creating poverty, and President Obama’s “pay as you earn” solution to
student debt), an idea hatched ... MOREWoman Dies In Jail Because She Failed To Pay A Fine
by Brian Doherty. Jailed for her child's truancy from school. Some monstrous policy out of Pennsylvania, from Associated Press
via the Pottstown Mercury News, a land where there is
no such thing as debtors prison for the poor unless that debt is to
the government, that institution that only monsters question
because after all it's there to help ... MOREPolice Enforce Mandatory Dress Code Along NJ Boardwalk
Cops deployed as fashion police. There is too much freedom going on. People who do not dress in a manner that is deemed acceptable by the government are subject to penalties in this New Jersey shore resort town. According to the government, people must cover their feet, must must wear shirts after 8:00 p.m., and must never allow ... MORE
Paul Bonneau: Evil Rationalizations For Good People
Why is it that evil proliferates? What mechanism keeps it going? Who is to blame? Why are there so many wars and occupations? Why such huge amounts of theft (“taxes”, fines, fees and “civil forfeiture”)? Why are so many nonviolent people in jail? What keeps the “War on Some Drugs” going? Why does the police state expand and expand? ... MOREObama's Wish List Since 2009: 442 New Taxes & Fees
by Cheryl K. Chumley. No one ever said vote-buying is cheap. President Obama has introduced a total of 442 new tax increase proposals since he took office in 2009, a watchdog group reported. Moreover,
those 442 tax proposals are different than the 20 that are contained in
Obamacare legislation that was signed into law, Americans for ... MOREBrian Doherty: Petty Law Enforcement Vs. The Poor
The state against the poor. The New York Times recently noted a new trend in Los
Angeles:
strict enforcement of jaywalking laws downtown, including the
little-known regulation that makes it a crime to enter a crosswalk
after the red crosswalk light is flashing—even if that red light,
as it often does in L.A., is counting down the seconds ... MORECaution: New ObamaCare Fees To Be Deployed In 2014
by S.A. Miller and Geoff Earle. Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill. The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-tax bills. Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to premiums, opting instead to ... MOREWashington Times: Revenue Camera Shakedown In D.C.
Gimmicky traps are about money, not safety. Officials in the District of Columbia waited until Friday to bury the announcement that 130 new revenue-enhancement cameras are being deployed on the streets of the nation’s capital. Locals have learned a speed camera lurks hidden behind the “Welcome to Washington” sign, and they’re jamming ... MORETodd Zywicki: Set Visa, Master Card And Markets Free
Approve the credit card interchange fee settlement. Last August, years of expensive litigation and a comprehensive evidentiary process culminated in a meeting of the minds among warring litigants to antitrust litigation that challenged the practice by which credit card networks set “interchange” fees (the fee paid by merchants to ... MORE
Obama Moves To Levy Cellphone Tax Without Congress
Government of unlimited power flexes its muscles. As we now know from the New York Times, the president hopes to "seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security. But where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative ... MORECharles C. W. Cooke: A Tax On Freedom
High taxes on guns and ammo punish the law-abiding. ‘I’m not asking to take away people’s guns,” Maryland legislator Jon Cardin nervously told Politico this week. “I’m just saying that for an activity that is relatively dangerous, obviously, people who participate in that activity should pay the full costs of that activity.” America, witness a ... MORE
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