State Secrets and the National Security State | Mises Wire

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Inadvertently released federal documents reveal that U.S. officials have apparently secured a secret indictment against Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks who released secret information about the internal workings of the U.S. national-security establishment.
— Read on mises.org/wire/state-secrets-and-national-security-state

Read the comments section, it is very good, just like the article.

More Diversity

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Many will say that we need more diversity. Now we have it. Is our country any better because of it? Are we more kind and civil to each other? Are we more united? Are we happier? Are we less angry 😡?

I think diversity is a good thing when it is not forced on us by pandering politicians and virtue signaling corporate media giants. When they get involved, it is about money and power, with the bonus of dividing while they get richer and spend our country into a debt spiral we will never recover from. 22 trillion dollars in federal debt, and still counting. Yet we are focused on more diversity.

The grievance class has replaced the working class as the savior of the America, which gave us such great freedoms and opportunities.

Europe Inundated by Snow Down to Greece & Harvard Study Shows Oceans Are Getting Colder | Armstrong Economics

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This winter is once again extremely brutal in Europe. Extremely heavy snow has fallen as far south as Greece in the range of even 3 to 5 feet in various places. This is the third year of extreme cold in Europe which has been fueling more resentment about global warming taxes. Once again, Europe has been thrown into economic chaos for much of the region is not able to cope with snow lacking the historical experience. Meanwhile, scientists have revealed that the oceans are still getting colder at deeper levels in a slow-moving trend that was set in motion by the last Little Ice Age. The idea that the oceans have been retaining the heat so that is why the planet has not warmed up as forecast 30 years ago flies in the face of those ideas as well.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/europe-inundated-by-snow-down-to-greece-harvard-study-shows-oceans-are-getting-colder/

Oops 😬 another inconvenient truth for the climate change/ carbon tax agenda

Raising Taxes by Redefining Who Are the Rich | Armstrong Economics

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QUESTION: I get up in the morning, make coffee and read your blog. Thank you for your service to humanity. Ok, so the Democrats want to go back to the 1950’s with 70% tax rates. Does that also mean they’ll reinstate the same deductions that were available back then? For example, passive activity loss rules would go away, personal credit card interest, medical expenses, and job expenses would be deductible, companies could deduct meals and entertainment, vehicle expenses, corporate jets etc. Also, there was a tax credit of 10% of the cost of new and used equipment placed in service. It is unfair to look only at the tax rate without looking at how taxable income was calculated. And how about Social Security tax being applied to a few thousand of earned income. M ANSWER: No. They will never put back all the deductions. This is all about raising taxes for their claimed Socialistic Agenda but in fact, as the deficits rise and interest expenditures explode, they will be raising taxes sharply as they always do pretending to be taxing just the super-rich. They NEVER lower taxes on the middle class. They just point to the rich to raise taxes without any benefit to anyone else. Normally, the play games with the definition of the rich. The Trump Taxcut denied deducting what you pay in taxes to a state after 10k. They blame Trump for that yet this has been on their wish list for the past 30 years. If the Democrats get hold of the White House and the Senate, you can bet your life they will not change that deduction. They silently all cheered for that – both Democrats and Republicans. The Definition of the rich has always been classified as “household” income. The burden of student loans preventing the youth from leaving home and buying their own house is wiping out the economy. It has reached a 75-year high coming in at a stunning 40%! The impact of this is the call among Democrats behind the curtain to get the IRS to add all the incomes in a household including the children to push them higher into the category of the “rich” which starts at the $250,000 level – not $10 million. The plan will be to raise the taxes on the rich and the define who are the rich. They will NEVER tell you the truth to your face. This is all part of the decline and fall of Western society.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/raising-taxes-by-redefining-who-are-the-rich/

The hunt for taxes will speed up as the national debt increases.