by John Seiler. I have dinner once a week with some friends here in Orange County. I set a limit of $20 for beer and food, or $80 a month. When the state minimum wage jumped to $10 an hour from $8 a couple years back, the restaurants increased their prices. So I cut back from a full meal to appetizers. It’s less enjoyment, but, as President John F. ... MOREHigher Minimum Wage Equals Higher Prices, More Taxes
by John Seiler. I have dinner once a week with some friends here in Orange County. I set a limit of $20 for beer and food, or $80 a month. When the state minimum wage jumped to $10 an hour from $8 a couple years back, the restaurants increased their prices. So I cut back from a full meal to appetizers. It’s less enjoyment, but, as President John F. ... MOREDavid French: Let’s Not Mince Words About PayPal
The PC bankers. PayPal has announced that it will not open a new operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina, because of the state’s new “bathroom law” — a law that sensibly requires people to use public, multi-occupancy bathrooms that correspond with their biological sex. PayPal thinks this is horrible. To put it bluntly, PayPal’s “corporate ... MOREJuries Should Rein In Prosecutors With Too Much Power
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Washington Post. If there’s strong evidence that you’ve committed a crime, there’s still hope. Despite the evidence, those responsible for convicting you may choose to let you go, if they think that sending you to jail would result in an injustice. That can happen through what’s called “prosecutorial discretion,” where ... MORETerence P. Jeffrey: Obama Claims Power To Make Illegal Immigrants Eligible For Social Security And Disability
Democrat vote-buying 101. Does the president of the United States have the power to unilaterally tell millions of individuals who are violating federal law that he will not enforce that law against them now, that they may continue to violate that law in the future and that he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which ... MOREThe $15 Minimum Wage Will Kill Jobs. Should You Care?
by Peter Coy. Mandated unemployment for low-skill workers. This is a story about ethics and economics, winners and losers, and the philosophical muddle on both ends of the political spectrum, as told through two of the hot-button issues of the 2016 U.S. presidential race: the minimum wage and free trade. Start with an unpopular but ... MOREDoug Casey: Why Debt Is Not Money
How you should think about gold. Gold’s main use, contrary to the belief of some, isn’t in jewelry or dentistry—although those uses are important. Its main use has almost always been as money. But gold’s ancillary uses are growing in importance because, given its physical characteristics, it’s a high-tech metal. It’s one of the most resistant to chemical reaction, one of the most ductile, the most malleable ... MOREVIDEO: VA Strips 250,000 Vets Of 2nd Amendment Rights
When government no longer protects individual rights, but instead threatens them.
Let's Hope For Jury Nullification: Prosecutor Wants Man To Serve 20 Years In Prison For Stealing $31 Worth Of Candy
by Josie Duffy. What if justice was a result and not just a process? Louisiana has the dubious honor of being the most incarceratory state in
the world's most incarceratory country. In New Orleans, Orleans Parish
District Attorney Leon Cannizaro has been hailed as a
reformer—organizations like Court Watch NOLA and others have publicly ... MOREWhat If The Minimum Wage Increase Is A Fraud?
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the latest craze among the big-government crowd in both major political parties is to use the power of government to force employers to pay some of their employees more than their services are worth to the employers? What if this represents an intrusion by government into the employer-employee ... MOREPaul Bedard: Americans Are Now Spending More On Taxes Than They Do On Food, Clothing And Housing Combined
After April 24, you get to work for yourself. A tax advocacy group on Wednesday revealed that Americans spend more on taxes than their whole budget for food, clothing and housing. The Tax Foundation, in its annual report on when the nation as a whole has earned enough to pay its taxes, announced the date as April 24. "Tax Freedom Day ... MOREJurors Need To Take The Law Into Their Own Hands
by Paul Butler, Washington Post. I learned about jury nullification while serving as a prosecutor in the District in the 1990s. As a rookie, I was warned that in nonviolent drug cases, it would be tough to get a conviction, no matter how strong my evidence was. The experienced prosecutors explained that the African American jurors “didn’t ... MOREHow Obamacare Just Made Filing Your Taxes Worse
by Nathan Nascimento. It’s that wonderful time of year again: tax season. Some 150 million
American businesses and individuals are expected to file taxes by this
month, covering thousands of arcane provisions that determine how much
you and your family will pay Uncle Sam and state governments this year. But this filing season is the second ... MOREPanama Papers About Gov't Corruption, Not 'Tax Evasion'
by Ed Krayewski. The "Panama Papers" are the largest leak in world history, revealing millions of documents related to the offshore accounts of politicians, former politicians, and billionaires around the world. Despite much of the media's focus on tax evasion as the primary theme of the Panama Papers story, which embarrassed governments are ... MOREJohn Stossel: Freedom To Disagree
To each his own. "Should a Jewish baker be forced to bake a cake for a Nazi wedding?" I asked that strange but important question during last week's debate between three Libertarian presidential candidates. You can see the second hour of that debate Friday, on my Fox Business Network TV show. If you're disappointed by Democrats' and Republicans' ... MORE
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