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Supreme Court Will Decide If The Government Can Tax Income You Haven’t Received Yet

Supreme Court Will Decide If The Government Can Tax Income You Haven’t Received Yet Katelynn Richardson on June 26, 2023 The Supreme Court announced Monday it would take up a case considering whether Congress can tax income before it is received. The case, Charles G. Moore et ux. v. United States, stems from a Washington state couple’s 2019 lawsuit against the government for a nearly $15,000 tax bill imposed on their small investment in an overseas company, from which they never earned a profit. It considers whether taxes on unrealized gains are legal under the 16th Amendment, which enables Congress

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NATO Countries Are Talking Big About Beefing Up Defense Spending, But Most Haven’t Backed Up Pledges

NATO Countries Talk Big About Beefing Up Defense Spending, But Most Haven’t Backed Up Pledges Micaela Burrow on May 24, 2023 Most NATO countries have failed to meet pledges to inflate defense spending made in reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine despite voicing concerns about the intense security environment in Europe, according to The Wall Street Journal. NATO countries on the eastern flank, most notably Poland, are girding for war as the conflict in Ukraine shows no sign of abating in the near term, prompting renewed commitments to beefing up their own and Ukraine’s militaries in line with the U.S.,

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Huge Proportion Of ‘Trans’ Adults Haven’t Medically Transitioned, Survey Finds

Huge Proportion Of ‘Trans’ Adults Haven’t Medically Transitioned, Survey Finds Laurel Duggan on March 24, 2023 A recent Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey purporting to find that transitioning made life more satisfying for transgender adults additionally found that a huge proportion of sampled transgender people had not undergone any form of medical transition. Most — not all — of the transgender participants had socially transitioned, but fewer than one third had ever undergone puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, and only one in six had undergone any type of surgery to present as the opposite sex, according to the survey. Additionally,

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POLL: Americans Haven’t Been This Down On Their Personal Finances Since The Great Recession

POLL: Americans Haven’t Been This Down On Their Personal Finances Since The Great Recession Bronson Winslow on February 8, 2023 Half of Americans say they are financially worse off now than a year ago, one of the few times 50% of Americans have reported being in a worse position since the great recession in 2008, according to a recent poll. Of 1,011 respondents, 50% said they are worse off when reflecting on their personal financial situations, and only 35% reported being better off now than they were a year ago, according to the Gallup poll released Wednesday. In 2021 and

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ECB’s Lagarde says we haven’t reached inflation peak

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation has not peaked and the risk is that it will turn out even higher than currently expected, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Monday. “We do not see the components or the direction that would lead me to believe that we’ve reached peak inflation and that it’s going to decline in short order,” Lagarde told the European Parliament. “Whenever I ask my top-notch economists at the ECB … about the risk, the answer that I get at the moment is (that) risk is to the upside, without qualifying the upside.” (Reporting By

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MILLOY: Europe’s Energy Crisis Is A Warning To America. So Far … Democrats Haven’t Listened

MILLOY: Europe’s Energy Crisis Is A Warning To America. So Far … Democrats Haven’t Listened Steve Milloy on October 30, 2022 Europe serves as an object lesson of the economic, social and national security disaster that is the climate hysteria-driven preference and overreliance on wind and solar power. Curiously, many seem eager to emulate that disaster here in the United States. European countries have been in a wild dash to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases ever since the 1997 adoption of the international climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol. The 2015 Paris Climate Accord only accelerated these efforts, which

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SHEFFIELD: Dems Want Americans To Believe They Haven’t Supercharged The Deficit

  You know it’s getting bad when even liberal Twitter flags a Democrat like President Joe Biden for making a false claim about saving taxpayers money. Democrats are desperately trying to pivot away from an impending electoral loss, and their leaders aren’t afraid to lie and spin about economic issues. “Republicans are always talking about the deficit,” Biden tweeted. “Well, guess what? The last guy increased the debt with tax cuts for big corporations. Not a penny of it was paid for. This year, we’ve reduced the deficit by more than $1 trillion.” This whopper was so bad that even Twitter

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POLL: Americans Haven’t Been This Pessimistic About The Economy Since The Housing Crisis

POLL: Americans Haven’t Been This Pessimistic About The Economy Since The Housing Crisis Harold Hutchison on August 8, 2022 Pessimism about the economy has reached its highest point since 2008, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday, with an overwhelming majority of Americans believing the economy is getting worse. Only 12% of Americans believe the economy is improving, ABC reported, with 69% believing the economy is getting worse and 18% saying things would stay the same. The figures represent Americans’ worst collective outlook on the economy since the middle of the 2008 housing crisis, when 82% of Americans believed

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FX markets haven’t seen last of dollar strength yet – analysts

By Hari Kishan BENGALURU – The dollar’s strength has yet to peak, according to a majority of currency strategists polled by Reuters who were however divided on when the currency’s advance would come to an end. The greenback slipped from a decade high in mid-July but quickly snapped back when three Fed officials made it clear the central bank was “completely united” on increasing rates to a level that would put a dent in the highest U.S. inflation since the 1980s. With the Fed expected to stay ahead of its peers in the tightening cycle by some measure, and the

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Taiwan holders of Russian bonds say haven’t received payments -sources

By Emily Chan TAIPEI – Some Taiwanese holders of Russian Eurobonds have not received interest due on May 27 after a grace period expired on Sunday evening, two sources said, potentially setting Moscow on track for its first major external sovereign default in over a century. Russia was due to make $100 million in coupon payments on two Eurobonds on May 27 – $29 million on a euro-denominated 2036 bond and $71 million on a dollar-denominated 2026 bond. Sweeping sanctions imposed by Western capitals on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 as well as

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Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Whipping Migrants Haven’t Been Questioned Yet: REPORT

A horseback unit of Border Patrol agents accused of whipping Haitian migrants near Del Rio, Texas, has not yet been questioned by federal investigators, ABC News reported on Tuesday. The agents were reassigned to desk duties as a federal investigation meant to conclude in a matter of days, not weeks, is ongoing, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, ABC News reported. More than a month has passed since the Sept. 19 incident and the Biden administration has not disclosed any findings. Thousands of mostly Haitian migrants set up a temporary encampment under the Del Rio international bridge

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4-year-old girl missing since 1986 shown as she would look today as police haven’t given up the search

LEXINGTON, S.C. – FBI special agents and analysts assigned to the specialized Child Abduction Team, along with Lexington County deputies, continue to look into the 1986 disappearance of Jessica Gutierrez. Investigators, along with SLED agents, have reviewed initial reports and re-interviewed more than 125 people in the search for Gutierrez, who disappeared from her home when she was 4 years old. “Almost all of the individuals contacted and revisited this week have been cooperative and want to help,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said. “The team will be in Columbia a few more days and the local FBI Field Office

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