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Get Ready for Online Sales Tax as Supreme Court Screws Small Online Businesses | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on July 6, 2018

Business as usual in Washington

Don’t Tax Online Businesses, Repeal Taxes on Brick and Mortar!

Remember the Warren Buffet secretary headlines. She pays more taxes than Buffet!

Solution: Raise the taxes on the rich guy. No one said lower taxes on the person that can’t afford them. That sort of thinking will get you unelected in Foggy Bottom.

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/get-ready-for-online-sales-tax-as-supreme-court-screws-small-online-businesses/

…When another family could not get pregnant, they found that selling collectible cards online was the easiest way to raise the $35,000 it costs to adopt a child. Here’s what they said before the decision: Read the rest of this entry »

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Supreme Court says warrant necessary for phone location data in win for privacy

Posted by M. C. on June 22, 2018

It’s only illegal if you get caught – Anonymous three letter government agency employee

https://www.cnet.com/news/supreme-court-says-warrant-necessary-for-phone-location-data/

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The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of digital privacy.

  • In a 5-4 decision on Friday the justices said that police need warrants to gather phone location data as evidence for trials. That reversed and remanded a decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Carpenter v. United States is the first case about phone location data that the Supreme Court has ruled on. That makes it a landmark decision regarding how law enforcement agencies can use technology as they build cases. The court heard arguments in the case on Nov. 29…

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Please Deny Me Service For My Beliefs. Seriously. | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on June 8, 2018

Let them wear their bigotry on their sleeves and let us see how the market responds. The mark of a civilized person is to see something they disagree with and be able to simply walk away. The world is a big place, and we are all capable of finding a community–a bakery, fast food joint, town, bar, or church–which accepts us with open arms.

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/please-deny-me-service-for-my-beliefs-seriously/

By Joe Jarvis

Ever since the Supreme Court ruled that the baker was within his rights to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, I have been seeing memes and photos like these:

bakery refuses service for divrocees

Actually, you don’t even have to have religious beliefs against Trump. A court ruled last month that political beliefs were enough for a bar to deny service to a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat.

As for the bakery denying divorcees… sure, go right ahead. That’s the point. You are free to run your business as you see fit, which includes denying certain customers you do not wish to serve. Although I’m not sure if that sign will help business…

That’s also the point. Businesses can refuse service, and customers can act accordingly. No one is forcing you to shop there, and no one should be forced to serve you… Read the rest of this entry »

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Supreme Court Sides with Masterpiece Cakeshop in Same-Sex Wedding Ruling

Posted by M. C. on June 4, 2018

The right decision for questionable reasons. We all have the right to discriminate with respect to with whom we associate and do business.

We have all seen the sign in businesses that states the owner has the right to refuse service. First and foremost (in theory) we own ourselves.

What if this had been a Jewish/black business owner and a Nazi/KKK customer?

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/04/supreme-court-sides-with-masterpiece-cakeshop-in-same-sex-wedding-ruling/

by Ken Klukowski

The Supreme Court granted a narrow victory to people of faith on Monday, holding 7-2 that the Constitution did not allow the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to order Christian baker Jack Phillips to bake a wedding cake for same-sex weddings because a commissioner said Phillips’ Christian beliefs on marriage were “despicable.”…

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Leave Cake Bakers Alone – LewRockwell

Posted by M. C. on December 15, 2017

 No one would support private individuals forcing bakery employees to bake a cake at gunpoint, so why is it right for the government to do it?

Would the same media and social justice warriors force a black baker to make a cake decorated with a black man hanging from a tree for a Klan party?

Businesses are private property. The government has no right to tell businesses whom to serve.

As usual, Ron Paul cuts through the fog.

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Congress and Obama: We Need More Innocent People in Prison

Posted by M. C. on August 17, 2011

Liberty is being besieged at every turn in the USA, as I have come to believe that no one – no one – despises liberty more than the very Americans who have benefited most from it.  This is the start of the last paragraph of William Anderson’s discussion of how creatively Congress is dodging the Supreme Court and taking what little liberty we have left.

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