Beyond Labels

This coming Monday, we’ll switch back to a “foreign policy” topic by considering the 2019 Camden Conference topic.

I’ll ask Court Haight to post links to a handful of useful resources that he has available on the subject. In the meantime, here are some links to recent (last two weeks) articles (mostly op-eds) on China’s various strengths and weaknesses.

• As China’s Woes Mount, Xi Jinping Faces Rare Rebuke at Home
• Military Bases in the Sand
• China’s Economy Is Not Normal. It Doesn’t Have to Be.
• How China’s Currency Could Help It Weather a Trade War, at a Cost
• Unease rattles China’s invincible facade
• Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China

“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