No Taxes on Tips or Anything Else by Jacob G. Hornberger August 20, 2024 Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are on the same page when it comes tipping. They both want to abolish taxes on tips. Of course, this should not surprise anyone. This is a presidential election year, when presidential candidates have to please the voters and purchase their votes. What better way to do so in the state ...
Back to the Future with Price Controls by Jacob G. Hornberger August 19, 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is demonstrating why monetary debasement has always been a favorite way for government officials to plunder the citizenry. Rather than focusing on the Federal Reserve as the root cause of prices rising across society, she’s blaming rising food prices on grocery-store owners. Consequently, she says that if she is elected president, she’ll get ...
The Crown Jewel of American Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger August 16, 2024 This week, the Wall Street Journal published some good news for proponents of Social Security, the socialist program that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law in 1935. The Journal reported that the Millennial generation — those whose age range is between 27 and 44 — have experienced a “dramatic turnaround” in finances. The Journal states:
What We Are Aiming For by Jacob G. Hornberger August 15, 2024 Amidst all the hoopla of the presidential race, those of us who want to experience what it’s like to live in a genuinely free society must continue focusing on what needs to be done to fulfill that objective. One thing is certain: whether Americans elect Donald Trump or Kamala Harris won’t matter one whit in terms of achieving ...
Immigration Inanity by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2024 Immigration ranks among the top three domestic issues in the U.S. presidential race. Republicans accuse Democrat presidential candidate Angela Harris of having failed to "secure" the border in her supposed role as Border Czar. Democrats respond by saying that Harris was never appointed Border Czar and that she and her Democrat cohorts are as determined to "secure" the ...
U.S. Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the U.S. Election by Jacob G. Hornberger August 13, 2024 The FBI is warning Iran not to meddle in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. That’s rich given that it was the U.S. government’s meddling in an Iranian election that is the root cause of the perpetual, ongoing, never-ending animosity between the two regimes today. While U.S. officials and U.S. interventionists love to point to the 1979 Iranian revolution ...
Venezuela’s Lessons for Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2024 What is happening in Venezuela provides valuable lessons for Americans. In the recent presidential election, the country’s dictator Nicolas Maduro immediately claimed victory but, suspiciously, has refused to reveal tally results from the voting stations. His opponent Edmundo González, on the other hand, quickly produced written tallies that were taken from many of the voting stations across the ...
Both Vance and Walz Experience Moral Blindness on “Serving” in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger August 9, 2024 Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance is taking Democrat vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz to task for his military “service” with respect to the 2003-2011 U.S. war on Iraq. He says that Walz ended his 24 years in the National Guard early to avoid being deployed to Iraq. For his part, Vance, who was in the Marine Corps for four ...
I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2024 In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking there for the past several years. I will be speaking on “A Limited Government Republic versus a National-Security State.” As longtime supporters of The Future ...
Israel and the Nullification of the Constitution by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2024 An article posted yesterday on the website Responsible Statecraft states “According to a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, only 41% of Americans support the idea of U.S. troops defending Israel, even if its neighbors attacked it.” If that statement were made in a U.S. District Court, one of the federal attorneys would undoubtedly stand up ...
It’s Weird to See a Retired General Scotch a Plea Bargain by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2024 Given that we have all been born and raised under a national-security state form of governmental structure, no one in the mainstream press is batting an eyelash over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s role in a plea bargain into which military prosecutors had entered with three men who are accused of participating in the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh ...
Out-of-Control Spending and Debt Means More Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2024 The federal government’s debt load just passed $35 trillion. According to usdebtclock.org, that amounts to $267,000 per taxpayer. It’s worth mentioning that that federal debt load does not include Social Security and Medicare obligations or the obligations arising from other “unfunded liabilities.” This fiscal situation is not getting any better. That’s because the federal government is spending ...
