Invasive tax laws push Americans to renounce citizenship to avoid jail, divorce
No man should have to leave the United States to seek freedom, but under our current tax regime that’s exactly what’s happening. Last year nearly 1,800 Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship or handed over their green cards, Reuters reports. They love the United States and consider themselves proud Americans, but complicated, uneven U.S. tax laws […]
Read moreObama calls for billions in new corporate, oil company subsidies
Veronique de Rugy, writing in today’s Washington Examiner, exposes a plan by the Obama administration to give away $140 billion in corporate subsidies, including billions to oil companies, through reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. And before Republicans start claiming they oppose it, they didn’t abolish it when they held the White House and Congress. Libertarians, […]
Read moreWhy Van Jones fears libertarians
Christopher Barron, writing for The Daily Caller, explains why Van Jones and other leftists harbor a special hatred for libertarians. “The single biggest threat to the American left’s political coalition is anyone from these groups who rejects liberalism and its collectivist ideology — and the left knows it. That is why the left so quickly […]
Read moreTip for candidates: Be human.
Running for office? Avoid the dry and wonky. Remember you are dealing with your friends and neighbors. And if you don’t? You end up like Mitt Romney, trailing a failed president no one likes, but are convinced cares about them. “Mitt Romney’s electoral trouble with women — more precisely with college-educated women — is real […]
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