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Notes: 7/23/2018: The proper role of government

July 24, 2018 Mike Wolf

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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

This is the purpose of the Constitution, not the Federal government.

From here

General Welfare Clause

Exit taxes when renouncing US Citizenship: taxes are due if:

Your average annual net income tax liability for the past five years, preceding the renunciation is more than $162,000
Your net worth is $2 million or more on the date of your expatriation
You failed to certify that you have complied with all of your federal tax obligations for the past five years preceding the expatriation

https://1040abroad.com/faq/renouncing-u-s-citizenship/

Freedom Index from Cato

https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=4049

http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/funkhouser/gov-government-purpose-capitalism.html

Diversity in Canada

Notes: Notes July 16 2018

July 16, 2018 Mike Wolf

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List of the United States and Russian Summit (Wikipedia)

January 3, 1993	Moscow	Russia	George H. W. Bush	Boris Yeltsin	Signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II).
March 20–21, 1997	Helsinki	Finland	Bill Clinton	Boris Yeltsin	Signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START III).
June 16, 2001	Ljubljana	Slovenia	George W. Bush	Vladimir Putin		Slovenia Summit 2001
May 24, 2002	Moscow	Russia	George W. Bush	Vladimir Putin	Signing of the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT).
February 24, 2005	Bratislava	Slovakia	George W. Bush	Vladimir Putin		Slovakia Summit 2005
April 8, 2010	Prague	Czech Republic	Barack Obama	Dmitry Medvedev	Signing of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
July 16, 2018^[1]	Helsinki	Finland	Donald Trump	Vladimir Putin		2018 Russia–United States summit

US Defense Spending

Trump’Putin press conference live stream

The Knife Media

We run each news story through an analysis process that measures bias and assigns objective ratings for Spin, Slant and Logic. Then we combine those ratings into a single score so you can see the integrity of each news outlet’s coverage.

I will do a deeper dive into this site, but here’s a taste:

Notes 9 July 2018

July 9, 2018 Mike Wolf

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Definitions:

Definition of Capitalism (Wikipedia)

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.[1][2][3] Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system, and competitive markets.[4][5] In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investment are determined by every owner of wealth, property or production ability in financial and capital markets, whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.[6][7]

Definition of Socialism (Wikipedia)

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and workers’ self-management of the means of production[10] as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.[11] Social ownership may refer to forms of public, collective or cooperative ownership, or to citizen ownership of equity.[12] There are many varieties of socialism and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them,[13] though social ownership is the common element shared by its various forms.[5][14][15]

Definition of Communism (Wikipedia)

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, “common, universal”)[1][2] is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money[3][4] and the state.[5][6]

Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism and anarchism (anarcho-communism), as well as the political ideologies grouped around both.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

Nominal Mean Incomes

Real Income Growth

Source: Advisor Perspectives

Uber Capital Rounds

Wikipedia Freedom House

Freedom Rankings 2017

Heritage Economic Freedom Index

Cato Human Freedom Index

List of Capitalist Countries

The code economy

In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from the invention of the alphabet to the advent of the Blockchain, Philip Auerswald argues that the advance of code is the key driver of human history. Over the span of centuries, each major stage in the advance of code has brought a shift in the structure of society that has challenged human beings to reinvent not only how we work but who we are.

We are in another of those stages now. The Code Economy explains how the advance of code is once again fundamentally altering the nature of work and the human experience. Auerswald provides a timely investigation of value creation in the contemporary economy-and an indispensable guide to our economic future.