By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Associated Press |October 25, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That’s sure to stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark …
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Rapper Boosie: Government is the Mob, Would Vote for Candidate Who Wants Less Taxes
By Stuart Webb | WeaponizedNews.Com | June 22, 2016 In an interview with VLADTV, a popular hip hop news site and YouTube Channel, rapper Boosie expressed his disgust with the Federal Income tax and would vote (if he was legally allowed to) for a President that would lower taxes significantly. Can I get a “taxation is theft” meme? He compared …
Read More »Salt Lake City Shuts Down for Joe Biden…
By Meredith Webb | WeaponizedNews.Com | February 26, 2016 Yesterday at work we all got an email about how a “Government VIP” was going to be staying at the Hotel Monaco, which is directly adjacent to my building that night. We were informed that the surrounding roads would be blocked off and if we were planning on parking in the …
Read More »Broken Logic: The irony of a 15 dollar minimum wage and an alternative solution
By Michael Hickey | WeaponizedNews.Com | Jan 15, 2016 A hot topic of discussion and debate this election cycle has been the increase in a minimum wage. A repetitive argument brought fourth by the left with a number chosen by the democratic party that they believe sounds good. 15 dollars an hour, and hey that does sound pretty good to …
Read More »Video: Student Demands Free College and Tax Rate of 90%
By Stuart Webb | WeaponizedNews.Com | November 13, 2015 This is tough to watch. The Million Student March national organizer Keely Mullen appeared on Fox Business with Neil Cavuto and basically reminded all of us, the Taxpayers, why we should definitely NOT support more handouts to the economically illiterate. Keely’s demands are free college tuition, debt forgiveness of all student …
Read More »Economics 102: WalMart Cuts Worker Hours After Hiking Minimum Wages
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | August 31, 2015 This year, some American executives who heeded loud calls for across-the-board wage hikes for America’s lowest-paid workers received a complimentary refresher course in undergad economics courtesy of the free market. Take Dan Price for instance, the 31-year old CEO of Seattle-based Gravity Payments Systems who found out the hard way …
Read More »Puerto Rico: No money available to make $58M bond payment
Gubernatorial Chief of Staff Victor Suarez said at a news conference that the island's Public Finance Corporation could not meet the payment due Saturday. "We don't have the money," he said, adding that the government still hopes to reach an agreement with creditors on renegotiating its debts.
Read More »Greece reaches deal with creditors, avoids euro exit
Greece will fight to return to growth and to reclaim its lost sovereignty.
Read More »Greek debt crisis: Goldman Sachs could be sued for helping hide debts when it joined euro
Goldman Sachs faces the prospect of potential legal action from Greece over the complex financial deals in 2001 that many blame for its subsequent debt crisis.
Read More »Greek MPs back bailout reform plan
Greece's parliament has backed a government package of economic reforms aimed at ending the country's debt crisis and securing a new bailout.
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