By Nathan Barton
As I pointed out in a recent commentary, the FedGov (and ALL governments) have many ways to steal money. A major one is, of course, the personal and corporate income tax.
This story was recently featured in Daily Policy Digest, taken from the Cato Institute. “In Texas, taxes on income are against the state constitution. However, Texans still pay the federal income tax. For achieving a genuine transition away from federal income taxation, state governments could change the way federal taxes are collected, says Ryan Murphy of the Cato Institute. Continue reading
Libertarian Commentary on the News, 14 July 2015, #15-28B: Religious government or government religions?
By Nathan Barton
Happy Bastille Day: anniversary of replacing the tyranny of a monarch and church-state establishment with the worse tyranny of the mob and “democracy.”
Suck-up… CNS News tell us that First [Consort Moochelle] said on Thursday at a tribal youth gathering at the White House that the United States is “finally” embracing the wisdom of Native Americans [sic – AmerInd] on conservation and climate change, and claimed that America’s founders modeled the U.S. government partly on the “Iroquois Confederacy.” “Today, on issues like conservation and climate change, we are finally beginning to embrace the wisdom of your ancestors,” [she] said at the event where youth from 230 tribes from 42 states participated. This is, of course, what we should expect from her: lies and more lies. Not the bit about the Iroquois, although she ignores the recorded documents that they looked to from Greece, Rome, and Britain itself as well as the Confederacy. Continue reading →