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Happy Tax Day: Your Tax Dollars Used to Study Male Prostitutes
One of my favorite things to not like is taxes. And seeing as April 15 is on Monday (get busy, you slackers!), I figured it was an opportune time to talk about taxes and government waste. Do you know the U.S. federal government pays out millions of dollars in fraudulent refund claims to prisoners every […]
Continue readingThe Destructive Consequences of a Crushing Welfare State
The modern welfare state has created a class of lazy people who feel they are entitled to government benefits even though they add no productive value to society. The longer a person leeches onto social programs, the more idle they become. Being paid for idleness is habit-forming. Eventually, such people begin to feel as if […]
Continue readingHow to Quash Business Growth
Here’s an easy way to quash business growth: Raise taxes. Of course, if you read today’s news, you’ll see proclamations that we’ve “averted the fiscal cliff!” And you’ll see claims that the new deal reached by the president and Congress “protects 99% of Americans from an income tax increase.” But it’s all semantics and political […]
Continue readingObama Obviously Doesn’t Know the First Rule of Advertising
The first rule of advertising is this: Make sure you have a good product to advertise. Because if what you’re selling isn’t any good, you’re going to have a tough go of it. And even if you do manage to sell a few units, it’s all going to come back to bite you when your […]
Continue readingGoogle Tax: Could French President Hollande Be that Stupid ?
There’s what’s called the Google stupid tax — what you pay when you try PPC advertising without the proper education. And now there could be an actual Google tax. I already had low expectations for François Hollande. Apparently, he is not one to disappoint. He is currently exploring the idea of taxing Google anytime they […]
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