Phoenix-based social-service agency for illegal aliens
Friendly House, the ACLU, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund have brought yet another lawsuit against the one part of SB-1070 originally upheld by the judge that issued an injunction against the rest of the law.
She had originally upheld a section which makes it unlawful to obstruct traffic while picking up day laborers, because the 9th Circuit had upheld a similar law in California. But since then, the 9th Circuit has reversed itself against that law.
The bulk of the challenge to SB-1070 has been accepted by the Supreme Court for review.
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I think the solution to the illegal alien issue is to find some bullet proof way to ensure they pay income taxes, both federal and state.
That would send most of them home.
What is the key issue is that schools, emergency rooms, public aid agencies, and law enforcement are dealing with a sector of the population that is a net consumer and not contributing to the revenue stream they are consuming.
I am unemployed and the Feds take income taxes out of Unemployment Insurance and they take income taxes out of social security...so why can't the non-citizen component of our society pay taxes?
When it is over and done with, the major complaint against illegal immigrants is the financial burden they place on the local government. Forcing compliance with tax laws would eliminate that burden and also discourage a segment from coming here...if paying taxes is not a deterent to an individual, I'd say let him or her come on in and contribute.
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By and large they don't earn enough to have to pay income tax - but many DO pay payroll tax. They pay Social Security into bogus accounts they can't collect against, and which the SS Admin is not interested in correcting.
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The "solution" is to issue guest worker visas, like Dubai does for foreign laborers. But obviously the Democrats want Mexicans to replace the existing population, so they don't want that.
By and large they don't earn enough to have to pay income tax - but many DO pay payroll tax. They pay Social Security into bogus accounts they can't collect against, and which the SS Admin is not interested in correcting.
Only if they're employed on the books.
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Land Value Tax (Everyone pays backers: Ricardo, Smith, Henry George, opponents: Keynes, Marx).
To pay equal Citizens Dividend
Only legals receive.
Ends "welfare" state, people purchase direct.
Government cost lower dividends, so pressure to right size state.
Spengler writes for the Asia Times
...Turkey's currency has been falling for a year, and fell even faster in August and September. Turkey's central bank had no choice but to raise interest rates sharply last October to prevent it from entering free fall. Even with the sharp rise in interest rates, though, the currency has continued to deteriorate, and the Turkish stock market has continued to grind lower. But the spike in interest rates will have deadly effects on the domestic economy....As Turkey's balance of payments deficit ballooned in 2009, Turkish banks became massive net borrowers of dollars from other banks. Those are short-term loans, though, and the slightest shudder could wipe out this source of financing.
A disaster is in the making. Leave aside the economic ills of the southern Mediterranean generally, which will impinge Turkey's exports (about half of which go to the European community): Turkey's financial system is reaching the end of the rope. A sudden adjustment in the current account accompanied by large-scale bankruptcies among Turkish businesses and widespread unemployment will make 2012 an ugly year for the Turkish economy, and an even uglier year for Turkish politics.
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my heart bleeds.
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my heart bleeds.
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ION AND-NOT-A-GOOD-RISE-EITHER-FOR-PAKISTAN ...
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > BLACKOUT NATION:PAKISTAN RUNNING OUT OF OIL AND [natural]GAS. Many countries friendly to Pakistan are refusing to give new or extended credit to Pakistan as per vital fuel imports.
[Dawn] IT is unfortunate that in a country where terrorism is rampant, the success rates in even those cases that are brought to trial is abysmal. During the past year, anti-terrorism courts in Rawalpindi maintained an acquittal rate of 60 per cent, even though the cases that came up included a suicide attack on Rescue 15 in Islamabad and the murder of a Polish engineer. Shocking though this is, the reason cited by prosecutors is even worse: they say that they and their families are exposed to threats from all sides while the police force does nothing to help. As we reported on Saturday, despite efforts over several months, the Punjab prosecution department has been unable to have the Rawalpindi police extend security to its prosecutors. Various communications in this regard, including by the prosecutor general to the relevant authorities, have produced no results.
The situation cuts to the very heart of the reason why so many terrorism-related cases in Pakistan never see convictions. Our report quoted a prosecutor as saying that under such circumstances, prosecutors ended up prioritising their own safety over their job. It is difficult to blame them, given the ever-present danger of reprisal attacks in the sort of cases handled by the ATCs.
Yet the reality is that unless prosecution success rates start climbing, the signal being sent out is that the perpetrators of violence are likely to get away with it by threatening more violence. True, the understaffed police force is in a bind: the CPO Rawalpindi pointed out that there are dozens of ATCs in Punjab and if the Rawalpindi police started providing personal security staff to prosecutors, other prosecutors would also demand it. Yet a compromise is urgently required. Reducing crime and terrorism is largely about building a successful prosecution. Without that, lawbreakers will continue to operate with impunity.
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Let me get this straight, Leon, now that his boss has proposed gutting our national defense, has suddenly done a U-turn and decided Iran is NOT developing nuclear weapons?
I guess that means if he says that, it is another reason to support killing our military.
AND I am tired of this freaking semantic game playing nonsense the Dems play...what the hell is the difference between pursuing a nuclear weapons capabilty and pursuing nuclear weapons. It seems to be on in the same to me...I guess the difference is that capability means you don't drop one whereas having nuclear weapons means you use them.
So I guess when we had the A-bomb, we had a nuclear weapons program and during the cold war we had a nuclear weapons capability...
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Can you spot which one is leon(he should have listened to that mangy Scot):
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DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > {DebkaFile] IRAN PLANS ONE-KILOTON NUCLEAR TEST IN 2012.
ARTIC > Israeli INSS Think-Tank = believe that neither the US nor Israel will use military force agz Iran's NucProgs even iff Iran proceeds wid INSS-perceived potential nuke test in January 2013.
IIUC, US TO OFFFER DEFENCE/SECURITY PACT ONLY TO ISRAEL IN LIEU OF UNDERTAKING ANY MILACTION AGZ IRAN???
and
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN URANIUM ENRICHMENT [Fordo] A NUCLEAR "ESCALATION":US.
* TOPIX > US ASKS IRAN TO STOP NEW/FORDO ENRICHMENT.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > US CAN [unilaterally] DESTROY [all] OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM - GENERAL DEMPSEY.
Iff the US rly rely Really RRREEELLLYYY wanted to strike or attack Iran.
ARTIC > RUSSIAN ANALYST AZHDAR KURTOV = US-Iran standoff in Strait of Hormuz shows IRAN IS NOW READY-N-WILLING TO ENGGAE IN MILPOL CONFRONTATION WID THE US, ETC. OVER ITS RIGHT TO A PEACEFUL NUCPROG.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > UK's [troubled] HMS "DARING": A MOVING TARGET FOR IRAN.
Seems the Techy DARING has a histoire' of major engine + maneuvering problems, UK ROYAL NAVY HARD-PRESSED DUE TO BUDGET CUTS TO CONDUCT ANY EFFECTIVE OVERSEAS OR LONG-RANGE NAVOPS, ANY DEDICATED ATTACK BY IRAN AGZ HMS DARING WHICH INVOLVES IRAN FIRING THREE-PLUS ANTI-NAVAL BMS OR TLCMS STANDS A GOOD CHANCE OF HITTING THE SHIP.
* TOPIX > EXPERTS: IRAN [likely] TO HAVE [effective = reliable] NUKES/NUKE ARSENAL BY 2015.
Year 2012-2013 = Simple or "Dirty" Tactical-level NucBombs/Devices, enough for sufficient or minimal deterrence agz foreign conventional attack???
* SAME > [Video = "Iran Plot Briefing"] FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO US HOMELAND: THE IRANIAN QODS FORCE GROWING AMBITIONS.
More correctly read, REGIONAL + GLOBAL AUDACITIES + BELLICOSITIES = ANTI-US IDEO, MILPOL ARROGANCE.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > FORDO PROTECTED [under] 90 METERS OF ROCK, + defended by copious ADS + armed IRGC ground troops.
versus
* TOPIX > OBAMA READY TO STRIKE IRAN TO STOP NUCPROG:EX-ADVISOR.
Every tick-tick-tick of the clock = IRAN GETS STRONGER OR BETTER = HARDER-N-HARDER FOR THE US-ALLIES TO ATTACK.
A cri de coeur in the New York Times...where few will see it.
Why arent there more liberals in America?
Its not because liberalism lacks cultural power. Many polls suggest that a majority of college professors and national journalists vote Democratic. The movie, TV, music and publishing industries are dominated by liberals.
Its not because recent events have disproved the liberal worldview. On the contrary, were still recovering from a financial crisis caused, in large measure, by Wall Street excess. Corporate profits are zooming while worker salaries are flat.
Its not because liberalisms opponents are going from strength to strength. The Republican Party is unpopular and sometimes embarrassing.
Given the circumstances, this should be a golden age of liberalism. Yet the percentage of Americans who call themselves liberals is either flat or in decline. There are now two conservatives in this country for every liberal. Over the past 40 years, liberalism has been astonishingly incapable at expanding its market share.
The most important explanation is what you might call the Instrument Problem. Americans may agree with liberal diagnoses, but they dont trust the instrument the Democrats use to solve problems. They dont trust the federal government.
A few decades ago they did, but now they dont. Roughly 10 percent of Americans trust government to do the right thing most of the time, according to an October New York Times, CBS News poll.
Why dont Americans trust their government? Its not because they dislike individual programs like Medicare. Its more likely because they think the whole system is rigged. Or to put it in the economists language, they believe the government has been captured by rent-seekers.
A cri de coeur in the New York Times...where few will see it.
Why arent there more liberals in America?
Its not because liberalism lacks cultural power. Many polls suggest that a majority of college professors and national journalists vote Democratic. The movie, TV, music and publishing industries are dominated by liberals.
Its not because recent events have disproved the liberal worldview. On the contrary, were still recovering from a financial crisis caused, in large measure, by Wall Street excess. Corporate profits are zooming while worker salaries are flat.
Its not because liberalisms opponents are going from strength to strength. The Republican Party is unpopular and sometimes embarrassing.
Given the circumstances, this should be a golden age of liberalism. Yet the percentage of Americans who call themselves liberals is either flat or in decline. There are now two conservatives in this country for every liberal. Over the past 40 years, liberalism has been astonishingly incapable at expanding its market share.
The most important explanation is what you might call the Instrument Problem. Americans may agree with liberal diagnoses, but they dont trust the instrument the Democrats use to solve problems. They dont trust the federal government.
A few decades ago they did, but now they dont. Roughly 10 percent of Americans trust government to do the right thing most of the time, according to an October New York Times, CBS News poll.
Why dont Americans trust their government? Its not because they dislike individual programs like Medicare. Its more likely because they think the whole system is rigged. Or to put it in the economists language, they believe the government has been captured by rent-seekers.
Maybe because those who have co-opted the term liberal to cover what is basically autocratic socialist redistributionism can't grasp that everyone else has picked up on the Newspeak.
Classical liberalism used to include respect of private property, true equality before the law and the promotion of merit, equal opportunity not equal outcome.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
IT is unfortunate that in a country where terrorism is rampant, the success rates in even those cases that are brought to trial is abysmal. During the past year, anti-terrorism courts in Rawalpindi maintained an acquittal rate of 60 per cent, even though the cases that came up included a suicide attack on Rescue 15 in Islamabad and the murder of a Polish engineer. Shocking though this is, the reason cited by prosecutors is even worse: they say that they and their families are exposed to threats from all sides while the police force does nothing to help. As we reported on Saturday, despite efforts over several months, the Punjab prosecution department has been unable to have the Rawalpindi police extend security to its prosecutors. Various communications in this regard, including by the prosecutor general to the relevant authorities, have produced no results.
