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  • Taylor Swift, Politics, and the Value of Friendship

    Taylor Swift, Politics, and the Value of Friendship1

    Last week, former President Donald Trump stirred the pot by posting a social media message praising Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, for “strongly defending” him on social media. Whether liking a few social media posts constitutes a strong defense of the GOP presidential contender is debatable. Regardless, rumors quickly erupted

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  • Taxpayers Foot Bill For EPA Employee’s $15k Gym Membership

    Taxpayers Foot Bill For EPA Employee’s $15k Gym Membership0

    Via the Daily Caller News Foundation: “Las Vegas-based Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official used his government credit card to purchase a $14,799 gym membership. A conservative advocacy group released documents purporting to show EPA contracting officer Kevin Broadnax bought a 37-year membership at Super Sport gym on April 11, 2017. Broadnax used his government charge

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  • Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop

    Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop0

    Looks like another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg News reports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.” In 2011 the $1 billion [Crescent Dunes] project was to be the biggest solar plant of its kind, and it looked like the future of renewable power. Citigroup Inc. and other financiers

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  • Tax Avoidance Isn’t Just Smart, it’s as American as Apple Pie

    Tax Avoidance Isn’t Just Smart, it’s as American as Apple Pie0

    Since the first Presidential Debate, there has been a lot of hue and cry because Donald Trump had the temerity to declare that he paid no income taxes. More specifically Hillary Clinton said, about his refusal to make his income tax statements public: There is something he is hiding. Or maybe he doesn’t want the

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  • Tariffs: Are They Really That Bad?

    Tariffs: Are They Really That Bad?0

    The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations” in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.  The Framers encouraged sanctions, duties, and fees as revenue-raising measures.  Thomas Jefferson argued, “We ought not to depend on supplies from other countries.  Shall we suppress imposts [tariffs] and give that advantage to foreign

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  • Tariffs, Hollywood, and Three Lies We’ve Come to Accept

    Tariffs, Hollywood, and Three Lies We’ve Come to Accept23

    President Donald Trump unleashed another unorthodox idea the other day by floating the concept of tariffs on movies not made in America. Those in the movie industry “are downright apoplectic,” CNN reported, concerned that such an initiative will tank their business. I’m not sure what to make of this idea yet, as I can see

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