On March 1st, $85 billion in sequester federal budget cuts are scheduled to "kick in" and President Obama is trying as hard as ever to paint the most catastrophic picture possible of the consequences, never mind the fact that Obama proposed this sequestration in 2011.
February 20, 2013 -- The Atlas Society's Ed Hudgins was cited in media twice this past week, and one of his OpEds was published in the Daily Caller. You can read these articles via the links below:
Antitrust law often works to the detriment of extraordinarily productive businesses, such as Google . And it's based on the moral premise--the immoral premise--that all productive activity exists for the sake of the public, not for the sake of the people who engage in it.
Early this week NBC created a stir after reporting they had obtained a 16-page memo leaked from the U.S. Department of Justice that revealed new details on President Obama’s controversial “kill list.” Although still leaving many unanswered questions about the Obama administration’s policy on extrajudicial killings of American citizens, it does move this secretive practice further into light.
Feburary 8, 2013 -- William R Thomas, programs director for The Atlas Society, is scheduled to speak at a Language of Liberty Institute event in Miami this weekend. Thomas will speak on business ethics and will participate in a panel on myths about capitalism.
February 4, 2013 -- Following publication on this website, the Atlas Society video interview with Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) was cited by multiple media outlets including 6811.html">Politico , The Nation , The Blaze , Mother Jones , The Huffington Post , Slate , The Chicago Tribune , Human Events , Reason Magazine , The Hill , Roll Call , Politics Nation with Al Sharpton on Msnbc , The Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch , L'Opinione , The Northwestern.com , The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , and Right Wisconsin ..
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If you own a motel, should it be taken away from you because of what your customers do in the space you provide them? Federal and local officials in Tewksbury, Mass., said yes; the Institute for Justice said no; and today, a federal magistrate judge agreed with IJ , sparing the Caswell Motel.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has announced that the U.S. military will make its default policy one of equality for women. No general class of jobs, including combat-related positions, will be off-limits to female soldiers once a transition phase is completed. (Apparently, some case-by-case exclusions may continue.)
In his second inaugural address , President Obama said, “What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. ‘ We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and [sic] among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’”
To prepare your own tax return, you don't need a license. Should you have to have IRS approval to prepare one for someone else? The IRS decided you did. And because it decided this approval would be contingent on paying fees and getting training, it imposed new costs on professional tax preparers -- and threatened the viability of small tax-preparation businesses that didn't generate enough revenue to justify the costs.
In order to "preserve competition," the Obama administration forced a food company to sell a dairy plant. The buyer: a private-equity outfit. The plant is no longer in competition. As the Wall Street Journal reports, it is closed .
The signals from the anonymous sources have changed. Until recently, the predictions were that the Federal Trade Commission would settle its case against Google this month with only relatively mild restrictions on Google’s ability to rain benefits on its users and make a profit for itself—and those restrictions wouldn’t be backed by a court order.
Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says Google’s tax strategy is capitalism—and Google is “proudly capitalistic.”
November 1, 2004 -- Ten years ago last May, a new type of lawsuit was filed against the tobacco industry. That industry was no stranger to lawsuits; since the 1950s, it had been subjected to more than eight hundred lawsuits, and it had won practically every one of them. It had never paid a penny in court-ordered damages to a smoker or to the estate of a smoker. But this suit was different. It didn't involve smokers; it involved a state—the state of Mississippi—and it involved a new legal theory.
As Congressional leaders and the Administration try to negotiate a deal to stop the government from marching over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” some officials are considering putting new limits on the tax deduction for donations to charities and other nonprofit organizations, such as The Atlas Society.
Americans face automatic tax hikes at the start of 2013 that would cripple a barely limping economy. But the federal government is running astronomical budget deficits, borrowing 40 cents for every dollar it spends. What to do?
Americans face automatic tax hikes at the start of 2013 that would cripple a barely limping economy. But the federal government is running astronomical budget deficits, borrowing 40 cents for every dollar it spends. What to do?
Some of “the most serious antitrust allegations” against Google may not make it to court this year, anonymous sources tell Bloomberg News :
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