If you want to understand why banks mistreat their customers, look to the government.
read more...H.R. 1 undermines many democratic institutions.
read more...Two personal stories illustrate how AML laws work (or don’t) in practice.
read more...There should be no reason to collect this information.
read more...Challenges to personal liberty.
read more...Arguments in favor of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act start and end with tax evasion. Those who question the validity of a massive and invasive financial dragnet for the purpose of catching a few tax cheats are accused of either being a tax evader themselves or of condoning evasion. FATCA proponents recognize no legitimate […]
read more...If you don’t like the NSA collecting and monitoring all your communications, you probably won’t be thrilled about new technologies that will give government power to monitor where you drive and control how you drive. Let’s look at a couple of options and then ponder which is more offensive. We’ll start with government monitoring of […]
read more...At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was questioned by Rep. Diaz-Balart regarding an IRS proposal sure to drive hundreds of billions in foreign investment from the US. As CF&P has warned on many occasions, the proposed regulation to collect information from foreign depositors to share with their home governments […]
read more...Dana Milbank is a snarky leftist who writes for the Washington Post, but I have to give him credit for an amusing column today about the new big-brother diet guidelines from our incompetent federal government. Here are a few excerpts. In the late 1970s, before the government began telling us what to eat, 15 percent […]
read more...Freedom, liberty, and common sense are all good things, which explains why I criticize the TSA’s bureaucratic approach to airport safety. But I’m a glass-half-full guy, so here’s one good argument for the TSA’s new guidelines. And since we’re having some fun at TSA’s expense, here’s how the Taiwanese interpret our policy.
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