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July 2012
The Associated Press takes note of America’s growing libertarian streak in this feature story. Interviewing LNCC Chairman Wayne Allyn Root, Pauline Arrillaga writes, in part: Something’s going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself — that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the […]
Read moreMaryland raises taxes, millionaires pack up and leave
A new study finds Maryland’s attempt to raise tax revenue by hiking taxes on “the rich” has backfired, as the state’s wealthy job creators simply packed up and moved. “The study, by the anti-tax group Change Maryland, says that a net 31,000 residents left the state between 2007 and 2010, the tenure of a ‘millionaire’s […]
Read moreReason: Five ways the Euro crisis will affect you
Matthew Feeney, writing for Reason, tells Americans how the Euro crisis will hit their wallet: The US will lose its largest trading partner: The United States exports 184 billion euros to the EU and imports 260 billion euros a year in trade. If the euro collapses the Europeans won’t be making as much, and Americans […]
Read moreHappy Independence Day
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which […]
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