Beyond Labels

A 360° Discussion of Foreign, National and Local Policy Issues

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

“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

 

For Jul 23: The Proper Role of Government

We’ll explore what “services” should properly be provided by government and which should be provided elsewhere—by the private sector, by charitable organizations, by individual households.

Most important to the “what” will, of course, be the “why” (this and not that)and “how” (to deliver it—to whom, and to pay for it.

We should also consider, within “government” how it’s role should be divided between Federal, State, County and Town governments.

Here’s an op-ed from today’s Post that I think provides some relative context to the discussion—though it’s not strictly on-topic.

Notes: Notes July 16 2018

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:

 

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