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Wealth Tax History in Europe Is Instructive

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020
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Progressives love to point to Europe as an example for their policies. So let’s look there. In Europe, we find that the wealth tax as a policy has a fundamental flaw. Thirty years ago, 12 European countries had some form of wealth tax. Now, only three remain. Why is that?

Wealth Tax Is Dangerous and Will Not Increase Revenue

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Wealth tax is dangerous to the economic present and future of states which implement it. States know their revenue streams have taken a hit. In New Hampshire, the shortfall will be half to three-quarters of a billion dollars. The upcoming legislative session will be a test.

France Deploys the Riot Police to Enforce Mandatory Mask Mandate

August 20, 2020 Steve MacDonald

In the US, the riot police are being defunded, so crowds of hooligans can, well, riot. In France, the riot police are being deployed to ensure that the French are wearing masks.

Is Fauci Trying to DEPRIVE America of a Coronavirus Cure?

Is Hydroxychloroquine Coming?

March 30, 2020March 29, 2020

How are the clinical trials of Hydroxychloroquine in New York State turning out? Well, the trials began last Tuesday. Strange there isn’t more reporting on the results, don’t you think?

What Has Socialism Brought The World?

January 24, 2020

Did you ever stop to think, what has socialism brought the world? All of the Democrat presidential primary candidates are socialists or their policy proposals are. So let’s run through some of the results of socialism.

It’s a Global Tea Party! Tax Revolts Worldwide

November 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It’s a Global Tea Party! Tax Revolts Worldwide Chile: Government raised subway fares – riots ensue. Iran: religious dictators triple the price of gas – now mullahs have riots on their bloody hands as well as a crashing economy.

Grok Invasion of the Jim Lawrence Show

August 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Skip and I, and later Ellen, invaded the Jim Lawrence Show on Tuesday from 4-6pm. Topics ranged from rainforest fire politics to my colon. I kid you not. And yes, there was a lot of political talk in between.

Burning Amazon – Brazil Tells the G7 it Doesn’t Want their Damn Money

August 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In another scary fake news piece about the “fragile Amazon,” The Guardian (certainly not of truth) goes all-in on the scaremongering we exposed yesterday. All so they can report that Brazil has refused millions in aid from the G7. Guess why?

Meritocracy… What is it?

August 17, 2019

In his 1958 novel George Young coined the term meritocracy. Classicists complain about the word because it has two roots. Merit is from Latin and cracy is from Greek. They claim the term is a hound dog in a thoroughbred language. Yeh, yeh, it’s a niggle. The more correct term would be the all Greek … Read more

EU Court Could Require Warning Labels on Products Made by Jews

August 11, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The movement to restrict or prohibit goods made in Israel, we are told, is not anti-Semitic. So, this shouldn’t raise any red flags. The European Union is poised to require warning labels on products made in Israel.

As Notre Dame Burns, Hate Crimes Against Christians in France Averaging over 1000 per Year

April 16, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The media spends a lot of time reporting attacks against Muslims, but they are the least persecuted religion in all of France. Yes, you have to say, ‘All of France.’ According to the government the faith most under attack in not Muslims, nor even Jews, it’s Christians.

French “Working Class” Protesters Win – No Fuel Tax Increases in Next Budget

December 6, 2018 Steve MacDonald

France announced tax hikes on fuel and utilities. Protesters organized and blocked roads. Their numbers grow. Things get messy. Fires. Riots, people die. The French Prime Minister announces that there will be a 6-month delay to work it all out. The protesters said it isn’t enough. They keep up the pressure. One day later the Hikes are … Read more

France Caves on Fuel Taxes – Offers 6-Month Reprieve to Examine Options

December 4, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The French Prime Minister has announced that the planet will survive without the French imposing regressive taxes on fuel or utilities. For 6-months. During that time the government will consider it’s options. And the protesters will consider theirs. How to make 6-months into something more permanent. The French government’s decision to suspend fuel tax and … Read more

Paris Accord Leads to Paris Discord As Mobs Protest Fuel Taxes

November 23, 2018November 22, 2018 Steve MacDonald

I’m not going to pretend that I get the nuance of the politics in France. But President Macron has instituted some new fuel taxes to save the planet, and a growing movement has risen to protest those taxes. This is, of course, France. I can recall any number of times in my life when I’ve … Read more

Left-Wing Climate Nut-Jobs Wonder if Paris Attack Was a ‘Big Oil’ Plot

August 30, 2022November 18, 2015 Steve MacDonald

What if ISIS attacked Paris to prevent the COP21 climate conference in France from reaching an agreement that would impact their oil business?

No, I’m not kidding. Look here?

Lasagna With A Kick….and a Whinny?

September 26, 2018February 9, 2013 Steve MacDonald

This page in history will not be written from the back of a horse, unless of course you are riding a frozen lasagna from Findus, a frozen food manufacturer that has been supplying Britain with lasagna’s made with 100% horsemeat. And while that might be cause for concern to the average frozen-lasagna loving Brit, particularly … Read more

Quotes worthy of note….

September 26, 2018December 28, 2012

“Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute calculates that Greece owes 875 percent of GDP for unfunded liabilities; the United States owes 911 percent, or almost twice as much as France at 549 percent.” —Mark Steyn Are we broke?

The End of the Beginning of the End

September 26, 2018November 8, 2012

When not caused by war, nations decay slowly and gradually (e.g., modern day France, Italy, Spain, Greece etc.).

Alas, now, it seems ours is no different. Its exceptionalism is dissolving into the ordinary. It’s a choice made by the people. They fore-go liberty and self subjugate themselves under ruling political and administrative classes of which they’ll never be a part. They’ll never rise to those classes because they’re taught apathy, complacency, and their place since birth. They are relieved of the burdensome onus of everyday decisions. Decisions that were proudly made by preceding generations that were not a bother or an onus at all to them. To them, it was life. Deciding what to do, how to live, and how to be was essential and culminated in traditions, virtues, and mores.

That became too onerous for the generations that followed, they blithely go about taking direction and surrendering thinking and creativity to others in the elite political classes.

Will NH Democrats Drool At Developments In France?

September 26, 2018July 20, 2012 Steve MacDonald

France’s golden age passed long ago, and thanks to the French is doomed never to return.

The New Socialist dominant government has set right to work doing something New Hampshire Democrats did (to a lesser extent) when they had complete control of our state government. Right out of the gate the French Socialists are raising taxes. But not just any taxes. €7.2 Billion in one off taxes on wealthy households and big corporations…because the country continues to spend more than its economy can come up with. Sound familiar? Their debt is at 90% of GDP.

What else sounds familiar? How about wealthy households and corporations leaving France to escape confiscatory taxation?