Well, it’s official: former Republican governor and 2016 Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld is running for president in 2020 … as a Republican. Weld is trying to become the GOP nominee, effectively ousting President Donald Trump. He will likely fail in his quest to be a boring, dry, and unsubstantive status quo candidate for […]
Archives for February 2019
U.S. government receives record income taxes, still drowning in red ink
Only the government can receive a record amount of revenues and still be drowning in red ink. According to the Treasury Department’s Monthly Treasury Statements (MTS), the federal government stole, er, collected an all-time high of $1,665,484,000,000 in individual income taxes in calendar 2018. This comes even as President Donald Trump implemented tax breaks, particularly […]
Visa, Mastercard reportedly set to raise fees in April
Warning to U.S. merchants: get ready to pay higher fees for Visa and Mastercard transactions. According to The Wall Street Journal, the nation’s biggest card networks are set to raise certain fees imposed on American businesses for processing transactions. There are two hikes scheduled for April. The first is the interchange fee, a levy merchants […]
Selling capitalism, not demonizing socialism, is the way to go
By: Jeff Charles There was a time when “socialism” was an ugly word, one with which no sane American would want to be affiliated. The term conjured stark images of gulags, food lines, and the brutal oppression typically associated with Soviet Russia and Cuba under the Castro regime. But it appears that times have changed, and not for the […]
GOOD NEWS: Poll finds support for capitalism is twice as high as socialism
The rumors of capitalism’s death have been greatly exaggerated. For the last few years, the polls have found increasing support for socialism and growing disapproval for capitalism (SEE: Study: Half of U.S. millennials want to live under socialism, 18% say Karl Marx is their ‘hero’). This has led many to believe that capitalism is dying […]