Taxation

Speaking of government jiggering, just below is a link to an article on Business Insider about a commission set up by the Federal Trade Commission to “rethink” journalism and the news media, while almost entirely ignoring the blogosphere. One of the proposals made by the commission was to slap a 5% tax on all consumer electronics, in order to raise $4 billion to be used to provide public funding to the struggling mainstream media. It’s all just another scam designed to keep the entrenched mob at the top of the nation’s power structure, entrenched.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-government-is-preparing-to-bail-out-n...

Chris Fitzsimon does a regular feature at NC Policy Watch ... a weekly column called Monday Numbers. They're sometimes hard to follow, but if you make the effort, always interesting. Yesterday's analysis looks at different performance measures in states with relatively high taxes compared to states with relatively low taxes. The results are compelling.