National Blog - page 195
Ron Paul: Tell Harry Reid we need to Audit the Fed
C4L Chairman Ron Paul has an op-ed in Rare today calling on Harry Reid to hold a vote on Audit the Fed: We are constantly told by a government that seeks to learn everything about us that we have nothing to fear if we have nothing to hide. Well, [...]
Thomas Massie at LPAC 2014: "Guns, Butter, and More Guns"
Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) addressed the 2014 Liberty Political Action Conference on Thursday, September 18th, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxrNJZE8lw
US Debt: one more reason to Audit the Fed
Listening to the political class, one would think that the federal deficit has been slashed to the bone. But the truth, as revealed in a must-read article on the Wolf Street Blog is the federal deficit is growing and will continue to grow in the [...]
How the Nanny State ruined Saturday Morning
Readers of a certain age may remember when kids began their weekends by gathering around the television to watch Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo, and other Saturday Morning cartoons. Today, network programming on Saturday morning looks like any other day [...]
Why is the idea of auditing the Federal Reserve more popular than ever?
Check out this interview that C4L's own Matt Hawes and Norm Singleton did with Rare on our efforts to audit the Federal Reserve:
Privacy: Yet another reason to Oppose the Internet Sales Tax
Not that you needed another reason to oppose the so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act" or the Internet Tax Mandate that would force small businesses to collect sales taxes on behalf of over 9,600 tax jurisdictions nationwide. But what about [...]
MI County Seizes Woman's Home after One Missed Tax Payment
A Michigan County is planning to seize and auction off a woman's home after she failed to pay $2,000 in property taxes. From Fox 17: A Kalamazoo County judge has sided with county officials in a dispute where a Richland woman says her home is [...]
It doesn't know when to stop.
While some find growing mistrust in government officials and institutions alarming, George Will recently countered that worry by stating on a Fox News panel, "I think we have much more to fear from excessive faith in government than from too [...]
ObamaCare bailout coming in lame duck?
According to Stephen Moore, writing in Investor's Business Daily, in September, House leadership scuttled plans to vote on legislation blocking a taxpayer-bailout for insurance companies. The legislation in question would ensure that health [...]
IRS cares about its own privacy...taxpayer’s privacy not so much
In a story that should come as no surprise to Campaign for Liberty members, the Washington Examiner reports that the IRS has failed to adequately comply with hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In some of the FOIA requests [...]