Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin announced Wednesday that he was dropping plans for a government-provided health insurance system in the state, citing the measure’s cost.
The decision comes three years after Shumlin, a Democrat, signed into law legislation that paved the path for a single payer health system, called Green Mountain Care, by 2017. Under the law, state officials needed to come up with a financing plan by this year.
But Shumlin missed two deadlines for developing a financing plan before determining this week that paying for Green Mountain Care would have required drastic tax increases. According to the governor’s financial models, financing the system would have required an 11.5 percent payroll tax on all businesses in Vermont and a sliding-scale,
Putting aside whether the cost are worth it, or how the host countries itself would respond.
If the facts of the matter are that gang violence in Central America (which reaches into and has affected US citizens) is causing refugees to flood the United States, does that give the United States the right to act militarily in defense of its borders?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rand-paul-puts-mike-johnson-on-blast-lost-all-his-principles/ar-BB1lBQfS?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=513505a4cd2c4d1ea8f0bab681686870&ei=26
"As I see it now, I'm not so sure there's a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and Democrats being in charge," he said. "The debt, the deficit this year will be $1.5-2 trillion, and that's Mike...
Biden Administration Stonewalls COVID-19 Investigations
Dr. Rand Paul Grills USAID Administrator Power at Senate Foreign Relations Hearing
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) questioned Samantha Power, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on the agency’s inability to turn over...
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams on Illegal Immigrants Arriving in the City: ‘This Is Horrific’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/08/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-illegals-arriving-city-horrific/
HANNAH BLEAU 8 Aug 2022
NPR Celebrates Independence Day by Portraying Declaration of Independence as Racist
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/03/npr-celebrates-independence-day-by-portraying-declaration-of-independence-is-racist/
Penny Starr 3 Jul 2021
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) reluctantly repeated its tradition of staff reading the Declaration of Independence, this year framing its...
I'm starting this thread separate from Anti Federalist's "violent transgenders" because some of these people are actually victimized by the very people claiming to support them. For example the trans reality start Jazz Jennings who seems to have been physically abused (sexually as well?) by Jazz's "gender affirming" mother who encouraged Jazz to transition at 17 and then would wake Jazz up in...
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1777828759829131295
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THREAD: CIA/ex-FBI agent admits they set people up to persecute them
THREAD: Alex Jones to pay $1 billion
Meanwhile, in 2018, Republican controlled Florida passed the most aggressive Red Coat gun confiscation bill in the US.
Colorado Gun Ban Passes House, One Step Closer to the Californication of the Mile High State.
We need a poll...
Who will Trump choose as a running mate? Not who you would like, but who will he actually choose?
Nikki Haley
Kari Lake
Rand Paul
Vivek Ramaswamy
Kristi Noem
Tim Scott
http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page504?oid=87809&sn=Detail
Zimbabwe considering gold-backed currency - Gono
The country is looking for an alternative to its hyperinflation-ravaged Zimbabwean dollar that was replaced by multiple currencies in January
Author: Nelson Banya (Reuters)
Posted: Thursday , 20 Aug 2009
HARARE (REUTERS) -
Zimbabwe's central bank governor Gideon...
(This thread should have been titled "Destruction of the FRN global standard" but I was in the early stages of learning this stuff. Dollar and FRN are not necessarily the same.)
UPDATE: Some of the links are dead but the texts of the deleted articles are still in this thread.
We have ongoing threads that chronicle the progression of the downward spiral of things like the Friday bank...
I've heard a lot of people say the problem with free trade is that it only works when both countries are allowing trade. That's wrong. For example even if China sells to us but doesn't allow us to sell to them, it still benefits us (and hurts China).
Suppose in the US, a strange new volcano started spewing perfectly formed free high grade steel. Should the US ban the free steel because it...
NYC - Woman locks out squatters in her home, gets arrested for changing the locks]
Published February 8, 2024
By: Jealie Dacanay
As a landlord, understanding squatters’ rights and regulations is crucial to protecting your property and ensuring a smooth tenancy. Squatting is an often misunderstood property ownership aspect, but in this guide, I provide a roadmap for landlords to safeguard...
I know there's been a lot of talk about secession or a national divorce, but I wonder if there's ever been discussion around two separate systems of governance for urban and rural communities. To me, this is where the real division lies.
It seems clear that the traditional values of rural communities will never be appreciated in the cities. And the violations of liberty in the cities will...
https://twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1761418253778436478
Does Libertarianism Require Support for Open Borders?
https://odysee.com/@mises:1/does-libertarianism-require-support-for:2
{Mises Media | 23 February 2024}
Dave Smith makes the Rothbardian/Hoppean case for government restriction on immigration, arguing that it's a second-best solution given the undeniable fact of government...
Rand Paul, Johnson may as well be a democrat
Thread Starter: helenpaulhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rand-paul-puts-mike-johnson-on-blast-lost-all-his-principles/ar-BB1lBQfS?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=513505a4cd2c4d1ea8f0bab681686870&ei=26 "As I see it now, I'm not so sure there's a difference between Mike Johnson being in charge and Democrats being in charge," he said. "The debt, the deficit this year will be $1.5-2 trillion, and that's Mike...
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