Business is not going well at the Internal Revenue Service. The agency projected that it would collect $1.2 billion between April and September of last year from Obamacare’s medical device tax, which went into effect at the beginning of 2013. But the tax take was just three-quarters of that. Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. ... MORESally Pipes: Obamacare's Device Tax Grows More Devious
Business is not going well at the Internal Revenue Service. The agency projected that it would collect $1.2 billion between April and September of last year from Obamacare’s medical device tax, which went into effect at the beginning of 2013. But the tax take was just three-quarters of that. Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Mob Rule Economics
Maybe low-paying jobs are better than none at all. While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob rule. There is nothing democratic about mob rule. It means that some people's votes are to be overruled by other people's disruptions, harassment ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Favors And Loot For Sale
A political marketplace for cronies. At a July fundraising event in Chicago, Mrs. Michelle Obama remarked, "So, yeah, there's too much money in politics. There's (sic) special interests that have too much influence." Sen. John McCain has been complaining for years that "there is too much money washing around political campaigns today." ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Success Or Failure?
Obama is a failure? Not so fast. Those people who say that President Obama has no clear vision and no clear strategy for dealing with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East may be mistaken. It seems to me that he has a very clear and very consistent strategy. And a vision behind that strategy. First the strategy — which is to get each crisis off ... MOREMichelle Obama's Stupid & Tyrannical Snack Rules For Kids
by Victor Skinner. School nutrition experts in Nebraska are struggling to comply with new federal snack regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. “I think we’ve gone too far, too fast,” Diane Zipay, director of nutritional services for the Westside School District told KIETV.com.
“And I don’t think it’s a real-world environment. ... MORE
Paramedics Rush To Child Who Waited in Car 5 Minutes
by Lenore Skenazy. Boy survives! Mother taken into custody. Playing out an elaborate charade of concern for a
child who was obviously in no danger, police arrested a mom who let
her son wait in the car while she ran into a Chicagoland Whole
Foods for less than five minutes. Then, for reasons known only to those who write and follow protocols ... MOREIBD: The Worst Job Stat Continues To Get Even Worse
by Jed Graham. Amid all the focus on boosting the minimum wage and legislating living wages, virtually no one seems to have noticed what is happening to the workweek in low-wage industries.
Since December 2012, private industries paying up to about $14.50 an hour have added, on net, 972,000 nonsupervisory jobs with an average workweek of a mere 17.7 hours, an IBD analysis finds.
That doesn't mean new employees are being hired for such few hours. Rather, it reflects a combination of reduced hours in existing jobs and ... MORE
When It’s Easier To Pay No Wages Rather Than A Minimum
by Tyler Durden. As of today there is no hotter subject following on the heels of Obama-Care than the current fight brewing in the minimum wage debate. Regardless of which side of the aisle (or counter) you’re on, the argument as to demand a government regulated hike of upwards of 50% or more in some places puts a question squarely on the ... MOREYoung, Bummed & In Debt: Why Aren't Millennials Angrier?
by Veronique de Rugy. Until recently, a bad job market was nearly always bad news for political incumbents. Unemployed and anxious voters have a habit of throwing the bums out. But headed into the 2016 election season, one large demographic group is still likely to vote Democratic: millennials. Which is weird, because when it comes to the labor ... MORECops Seize Family Home After $40 Drug Bust
by Zoe Szathmary. How Philadelphia uses cops to legally steal. A Philadelphia civil forfeiture law has reportedly allowed the government to take away citizens' homes - and much of it funds city prosecutors. CBS Philadelphia reported on the story, saying homeowners Christos Sourovelis, Norys Hernandez and Doris Welch have filed a lawsuit, ... MOREJacob Sullum: 40,000 Prisoners Of Pot Prohibition
Some will die in prison. Now that growing and selling marijuana are legitimate businesses in Colorado and Washington, the injustice of sending people to prison for engaging in those activities is starker than ever before. Last week at Reason.com, for example, Aaron Malin highlighted the case of Jeff Mizanskey, a Missouri man who ... MORESpeaking Ill Of The Police Is Now A "Hate Crime"
by William Norman Grigg. The NYPD has now added its name to the roster of Officially Protected Victims by filing “hate crimes” charges against 36-year-old Rosella Best, who had tagged police vehicles and a public school with anti-NYPD graffiti. Among the entirely defensible sentiments inscribed by Best are “NYPD pick on the harmless,” ... MORECops Say Tasering 8-Year-Old For Tantrum Was Justified
by Vincent Schilling. Two months after an 8-year-old girl was tasered by a Pierre, South
Dakota police officer in October of 2013, Hughes County State’s Attorney
Wendy Kloeppner released a report
which stated “she was satisfied with an independent investigation,
deploying a taser was the best viable way to diffuse the situation,” and
no charges would ... MOREDick Marple: Jury Nullification Keeps Government In Check
Sept 5th was Jury Rights Day. It was on that day in 1670 that Quaker William Penn of London was arrested, pleaded not guilty and subsequently argued against England’s Conventicle Acts, which outlawed the practice of religions other than the Church of England. The judge instructed the jurors to find Penn guilty, but they refused to ... MOREDan Mitchell: America's Ever-Expanding Regulation Swamp
An economy tangled in red tape. Maybe I’m biased because I mostly work on fiscal policy, but it certainly seems feasible to come up with rough estimates for the damage caused by onerous taxes and excessive spending. On a personal level, for instance, we have a decent idea of how much the government takes from us and we know ... MORE
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