Tax and Spend

New Obamacare taxes start.

Maryland government to tax rain inhibiting.

"Their latest gambit is to tax rain.  Under the theory that there is not enough rain water draining into the Chesapeake Bay to dilute pollutants from fertilizers, the state has decreed that all property owners who have roofs, driveways, garages, sidewalks, and anything else that "blocks" rain from directly hitting the earth will be taxed.  All government "property" is exempted, but not that of  churches and nonprofit organizations.
"Satellite technology" (a.k.a. drones) will be used to determine the extent of each property owner's crimes against Mother Earth and to impose the appropriate rain tax."

You can't make this stuff up.

Government's legacy regarding the internet is its insecurity.

April 15th is a wonderful day to remind everyone that all taxes are theft.

"The first great lesson to learn about taxation is that taxation is simply robbery. No more and no less. For what is "robbery"? Robbery is the taking of a man’s property by the use of violence or the threat thereof, and therefore without the victim’s consent. And yet what else is taxation?"
"But if taxation is robbery, then it follows as the night the day that those people who engage in, and live off, robbery are a gang of thieves. Hence the government is a group of thieves, and deserves, morally, aesthetically, and philosophically, to be treated exactly as a group of less socially respectable ruffians would be treated."

Yes.

Fresh from winning a policy of theft against rich bank depositors in Cyprus to pay a significant portion of the Cyprus bailout, Germans want to impose a wealth tax on the wealthy citizens of any other country that needs bailed out.

"Prof Peter Bofinger, an adviser to Mrs Merkel, said that levies on bank accounts are the wrong way of funding bail-outs, because rich people are able to shift their money out of the country.
“The resourceful rich just move their money to banks in northern Europe and avoid paying,” Prof Bofinger told Der Spiegel, a German magazine.
Instead of taxing cash, European Union governments should in future target property and other, less mobile assets, he said."

The euro looks shakier every day. This encourages rich people to leave these sinking countries.