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Get Ready To Start Paying These Taxes Too: A National Sales Tax, An Internet Tax, A Carbon Emissions Tax, A Financial Transactions Tax, Anti-Terrorism Security Tax, An Asset Taxes And ‘Christmas Tree’ Tax

by Simon Black of Sovereign Man

Get Ready To Start Paying These Taxes Too

In the pre-dawn darkness of a chilly LA morning, my day started off with a chuckle. A friend in the reforestation business sent me an email detailing the US Department of Agriculture’s new ‘Christmas Tree’ tax that was approved yesterday.  I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t.

One can only laugh at the absurdity of the government getting involved in [...]

Scary News – April 12 “bankruptcies, raising taxes, unemployees…”

1) Risk of Japan going bankrupt is real, say analysts

“TOKYO — Greece’s debt problems may currently be in the spotlight but Japan is walking its own financial tightrope, analysts say, with a public debt mountain bigger than that of any other industrialised nation.

Public debt is expected to hit 200 percent of GDP in the next year as the government tries to spend its way out of [...]