Last year, Philadelphia passed a soda tax that was meant to curb obesity but was really a measure to eat away at the ballooning budget deficit. The city of brotherly corruption passed a law that would see a 1.5 cent per ounce tax on soda and other sweetened and diet beverages. How did that work […]
Archives for March 2017
34 words/phrases banned by a university
Anyone with common sense, logic and half of a brain will concur that political correctness is getting out of hand. As the great comedian George Carlin once said, political correctness is fascism disguised as manners, and if you have visited a college campus as of late you would know this first-hand. Example No. 2332101: Cardiff […]
Does Wilbur Ross want Mexico to have a higher minimum wage?
United States Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested that the Mexican government raise the minimum wage for workers. Speaking in an interview with CNBC last week, the Trump administration official explained that one of the inherent problems of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the minimum wage in Mexico and the fact that it […]
Can Janet Yellen keep the Fed-induced boom going?
By: Brendan Brown Yellen, like notorious previous Fed chiefs including Strong, Martin, and Greenspan, can now claim success in having prolonged and strengthened an asset price inflation which otherwise may well have been about to enter its severe end phase. If history is any guide, the result of that success is to be feared. Asset […]
Hooray! Your odds of being audited this year by IRS are lower
The only thing worse than paying taxes to the United States government is being audited by that same federal government. But don’t you worry: your odds of facing a tax audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are lower this year. Last year, the number of people audited by the IRS declined for the sixth […]