Tax increases gouge low-income consumers. Retailers are preparing for a triple whammy as the restoration of the payroll tax, surging gas prices, and stagnant employment and wages take a bite out of consumers’ disposable income, leaving them with less cash to spend on clothing, groceries, and eating out. As a result, more than three ... MOREHusna Haq: Why Is Wal-Mart Worried?
Tax increases gouge low-income consumers. Retailers are preparing for a triple whammy as the restoration of the payroll tax, surging gas prices, and stagnant employment and wages take a bite out of consumers’ disposable income, leaving them with less cash to spend on clothing, groceries, and eating out. As a result, more than three ... MOREStates' Rights: Marijuana Becomes A Front Line Struggle
by David Kumbroch. The country’s drug laws are currently getting closely examined. Two states have already given the go-ahead to recreational marijuana with many more allowing medical marijuana. Now two federal bills – HB499 and HB501 – seek to turn over drug enforcement to the states and tax legal marijuana. When it comes to states’ rights ... MOREU.S. Senator Says 4,700 Have Been Killed By Drones
"Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that." It was the first time a politician or any government representative had referred to a total number of fatalities in the drone strikes, which have been condemned by rights groups as extrajudicial assassinations. The toll from hundreds of drone-launched missile strikes against suspected ... MORELawmaker Wants Smoking Banned in Cars With Children
Another reason to pull you over. One Connecticut lawmaker is pushing to ban smoking in cars with children, citing the health risks of immature immune systems. The law has been a focus of State Representative Henry Genga since 2008, reports WABC-TV. Opened windows wouldn’t give drivers a free ride, however. “The second hand ... MOREJames Dorn: Obama's Minimum Wage Is Zombie Economics
Minimum wage a maximum folly. President Obama’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage is a
case of what Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman calls “zombie
economic ideas.” According to Krugman, “a zombie idea is a proposition
that has been thoroughly refuted by analysis and evidence, and should be
dead—but won’t stay ... MOREChris Rossini: Rolling Back To That Dreaded Year: 1913
The beginning of the end. In respect to liberty, 1913 was a dark year in U.S. history. Three key pieces of legislation were passed that (now 100 years later) have individual liberty seriously on the rocks. They were: The 16th Amendment, which created the Federal Income Tax, The 17th Amendment, which created the Popular Election of Senators, ... MORERick Moran: The Upside To Sequestration?
Government carries forward its own momentum. Matthew Cooper writing at the National Journal: Everyone agrees that sequestration is asinine, but Washington is increasingly resigned to it. Other deadlines have been met by fevered last-minute negotiations and, mercifully, avoidance of calamity. This time there's less urgency and more sighs. There is an ... MOREMichelle Malkin: Disarming American Women
The Left: Fight rapists with pens, urine, vomit, tears. If radical gun-grabbers have their way, your daughters, mothers, and grandmothers will have nothing but whistles, pens, and bodily fluids with which to defend themselves against violent attackers and sexual predators. Women of all ages, races, and political backgrounds should be up in arms over ... MORESupreme Court Approves Search Warrants Issued By Dogs
by Jacob Sullum. The
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously
ruled that "a court can presume" an alert by a drug-sniffing
dog provides probable cause for a search "if a bona fide
organization has certified a dog after testing his reliability in a
controlled setting" or "if the dog has recently and successfully
completed a training program that evaluated his ... MORE
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