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Unintended Consequences
As Congress, and state Legislatures continue to have grand ideas (and how to pay for them) it behooves the people elected to office to comprehend that what they want to happen – may not provide the the relief as expected. Consider the evil the state of Oregon foisted onto it their citizens with rent control.…
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Taxes and Fees Prevent Raises
Taxes are once again in the frontal lobe of the news, US Congress, State of Oregon legislature, and local city’s legislative bodies. There are reasons to have taxes, and fees, in communities that assist everyone in everyday life. This is not a debate, or a treatise, about taxes. This is not a discussion about basic…
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Crime Statistics in the United Stated of America
There seems to be a lot of quoting of statistics regarding crime in the United Stated of America. Some things that are said are true, others blatantly false. Crime in the United States is tacked. Violent crime, non violent crime, sorted by ethnicity, gender, age of the persons that committed the crimes, and the victims…
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Endless Debt – A Better Way To Fund Government
Some time ago, under the topic A Different Way To Fund Streets, we broached an alternative to funding streets. Normally streets, roads, highways and such are funded by taxes. These taxes have no limit, which, over time, become a burden to the people who use the roads, streets or highways. In our alternative we suggested…
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Choice, The Evilness of Restrictions
The United States of America was founded on the theory that human beings do not need Kings. That there are, in fact, ways for the common people to govern themselves. One key element of this idea, self-governance, is the notion of choice. Choice when it comes to who the leadership is, choice in how we…
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Words Really do Matter – Part Two
I have mentioned this before and it seems like a good time to mention it again. Words matter a lot in the business of politics. Consider the stock market plunge in the light of the rhetoric coming from both the Congress and the President of the United States of America. First the government decided to…
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A very slight interruption
When making laws or other rules consider the effect on everyone. The fellow at the link below has some thought s about how the legislative stuff effects us all. http://inthetrenches-egor.blogspot.com/
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Get everyone on board with out creating extra fees
Government, as of late, in the United States of America is more about forcing social change than it I about governance. Everything from limiting the places where one can smoke, to what kind of fuel is available for their automobile. From a casual reading, of the Constitution of the United States, government should keep people…
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How A United States President Can Govern Like A Dictator
We take a break to mention something that we all need to know about how to or not to govern. It is possible for the president of the United States to govern like a dictator. These are called Executive Orders and they are not debated in the public forum. All presidents have used them, to…
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How To Tell Where A Politician, Past and Present, Has Placed Their Money.
One of the little known, if not completely misunderstood, parts of political life is the idea of conflict of interest. Other politicians, in other countries, are normally touted as being evil because they own a part of some business, which receives a relegation benefit from the politician. This happens her two and not just with…
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