More evidence the government is not us. The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel. The ... MORE
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Eliana Johnson: IRS Sent Confidential Database To FBI
More evidence the government is not us. The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel. The ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Ambassador And The Post Office
A lesson about capitalism. At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it. The fact that the ... MOREObama's Green-Energy Scams Leave Taxpayers In The Red
by Justin Sykes. How we gave China a stimulus. It’s been more than five years since President Obama signed his
misguided economic-stimulus package into law, creating green-energy
subsidies and expanding others, but American taxpayers are still feeling
its disastrous effects. This month a deal was reached between competing creditors of ... MORE'Crazy Cave' Is Poster Child For Government Waste
by Daniel Bates. No incentives for cost-saving innovation. Six hundred workers are processing government pension papers in an underground bunker entirely by hand in a staggering example of state inefficiency that is costing taxpayers millions. Staff at what has been dubbed the ‘Crazy Cave’ take up to 61 days just to deal with ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: New York And California Suck
For both taxpayers and freedom. New York and California are the worst and second worst states in terms of tax burden, in what is less than shocking news from the financial website, WalletHub. The ranking tallies annual state and local taxes, and puts the Golden State and the Empire State at the bottom of the heap, with Wyoming and ... MOREIleana Johnson Paugh: America's Expanding Police State
How free are we anymore? In the increased police state around us and the amplified NSA surveillance everywhere, citizens are feeling more and more like they are guilty until proven innocent. The police in Fairfax County, Virginia, cannot stop many people for speeding since the interstates and highways are constantly partially blocked by ... MORETerence P. Jeffrey: Uncle Sam's New Year's Binge
Gov't borrows $1,088 per household in just 1 day. Uncle Sam—AKA the federal government—went on a New Year’s Eve binge,
adding a net of $125,202,709,546.99 to its total debt in just the one
day of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the U.S. Treasury. That equals approximately $1,088.60 for each of the 115,013,000 households the Census ... MOREAmerican Taxpayers Blew $7.45 Billion On What?
Fighting global warming in other countries. American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as “a truly life-and-death challenge.” ... MOREHow Government Wasted Taxpayer Dollars In 2013
3-D pizza printing, pole dancing, the $100,000 outhouse ... The federal government spent $680 billion more than it took in during the 2013 fiscal year. But despite shutting down much of Washington in an argument over how much debt to rack up in 2014, Uncle Sam continues to green-light spending on projects that only their contractors ... MORE
Sylvia Bokor: The Trillion-Plus Dollar Heist
Public servants or public masters? Government produces nothing. It creates no wealth. Yet the District of Columbia is ranked as the richest area in the nation. Politicians and bureaucrats shriek that business people are "greedy." But facts show differently. Imagine voting yourself a raise and millions of dollars in allowances. Imagine ... MOREObamacare Holds Some Nasty Surprises For Taxpayers
by Rick Moran. If you are currently receiving a subsidy from the government for your health insurance, you better be aware that any "life changes" that occur during the year - marriage, divorce, increase in income - has to be reported to the IRS. Otherwise, you're liable to get a nasty surprise come tax time. Politico: It's a new responsibility ... MOREIRS Using Google Maps To Spy On Taxpayers
by Josh Peterson. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps
as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations, The
Daily Caller has learned. A redacted
IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the
IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps,
as ... MORECalifornia Taxpayers To Subsidize Green Cars For The Poor
by Steven Greenhut. One longtime critic of federal
transportation spending once concluded that it would be less
expensive for the government to buy every new transit rider a
Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new rail systems.
Unfortunately, California officials may not have realized that the
idea of buying people new cars ... MOREStates Should Cut Taxes To Boost Economic Growth
by Ben Wilterdink. There was a strong trend of states cutting taxes this year, with 18 states passing significant tax cuts into law during the 2013 legislative session. With one-third of the United States cutting taxes, it is clear economic growth has become a top priority for states that want to dig out of the dismal economy that followed the ... MOREThomas Sowell: An Old 'New' Program
Anything to expand government power. Like so many things that seem new, ObamaCare is in many ways old wine in new bottles. For example, when confronted with the fact that millions of Americans stand to lose their existing medical insurance, as a result of ObamaCare, defenders of ObamaCare say that this is true only when those ... MOREFroma Harrop: Scandal In Candyland
Taxpayers get not-so-sweet deal. Ever notice how some government programs draw the ire of almost everyone? Conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, libertarians, business, labor, consumers and grouchy taxpayers are all opposed. Yet these programs go on as though directed by an unstoppable particle beam from a neighboring ... MORE
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