NC Renegades

In Defense of the Unpatriotic

President Obama and the chorus labeling corporations leaving the US to escape high corporate tax rates unpatriotic are like pickpockets complaining about people who hide their wallets. They harken back to Franklin Roosevelt, who popularized the notion that government has first call on income and wealth, and anything people are allowed to keep is at its sufferance. Roosevelt went after the wealthy for availing themselves of legal measures to avoid high tax rates. Statists see people as bovines at their abattoir (slaughterhouse sounds so much classier in French). Any intrepid cow trying to escape must be herded to the front and made an example for the rest of the cud-chewers.

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The government is even making it harder for those who renounce their citizenship (their numbers keep growing). The fee just quadrupled (to $2350) and renouncers may have to pay taxes on unrealized capital gains (a huge burden if they’ve built a business they haven’t sold). Remember: if you, your business, and your money want to flee our freedom-destroying regime of taxes, regulations, redistribution, and debt, you are soulless, unpatriotic, and, most despicably, ungrateful to all the selfless and noble public servants responsible for the magnificent achievement that is our government.

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On the average day, an unemployed American is more likely to be shopping—for things other than groceries and gas—than to be looking for a new job, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Only 18.9 percent of Americans who were unemployed (in surveys conducted from 2009 through 2013) spent time in job search and interviewing activities on an average day, according to BLS. Yet 40.8 percent of the unemployed did some kind of shopping on the average day–either in a store, by telephone, or on the Internet. 22.5 percent of the unemployed, according to BLS, were shopping for items other than groceries, food and gas.

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While the West continues to press the “Russia is increasingly isolated” meme, it appears – as we noted ironically previously, that Vladimir Putin is finding plenty of friends… most notably China. While threats of ‘asymmetric’ retaliation over European sanctions may have been enough to worry Europe’s leaders, the slew of news overnight regarding increased cooperation between China and Russia is likely more damaging to Western strategy (and egos).

Not so isolated…

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Lawlessness only begets more lawlessness. Here’s the proof.

This weekend we learned that Attorney General Roy Cooper’s refusal to defend the North Carolina Marriage Amendment and statutes has inspired the City of Winston-Salem to begin recognizing same-sex “marriages” performed in other states. 

Citing the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision finding the Virginia Marriage Amendment unconstitutional and citing Roy Cooper’s announcement that he will no longer defend our own Marriage Amendment, the City issued a new policy making same-sex couples who purport to be “married” under the laws of another state eligible for benefits paid for by the taxpayers.

Although no court of law has found North Carolina’s marriage statutes and Marriage Amendment to be unconstitutional, the City of Winston-Salem has taken it upon themselves to do the dirty work.  In so doing, they are openly violating the laws and Constitution of our State.  So much for the voters approving the Marriage Amendment by 61% to 39%!

How can public officials violate the law and get away with it?  Because our Attorney General, who was elected to enforce the laws and Constitution of the State, has decided to pick and choose which ones he won’t defend.  And, he’s decided he doesn’t like the ones that deal with recognizing marriage only as the union of a man and a woman.

How can the Attorney General get away with violating his duties under the Constitution?  Because no one has held him accountable for it…..yet.

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