Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for July 2018:
It’s ironic that during the month that the independence of the United States was officially declared, a massive amount of new imperialist laws and taxations were made!
04 July 1776: How Taxes, Tariffs & Tea Led To American Independence
Why is there a lawyer shortage? Maybe it’s because too many Americans have become Dumbed Down! “It’s an intense time for recent law school graduates, and following wave after wave of record-setting failure rates on bar exams nationwide, many of them are incredibly nervous about how they’ll perform on the July 2018 exam.”
ALABAMA: Shelby, other senators criticized for spending July 4th in Russia
Alabama to enforce internet sales tax collections
ALASKA: Anchorage Marijuana Store Owner fails to pay taxes
Alaska Wants to Fight Warming While Still Drilling for Oil
ARIZONA: Hundreds of new laws
Arizona tops record state revenue, supposedly due to high tax collections rate
CALIFORNIA: The Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission issued a layoff WARN, 47 jobs gone in September.
What You Need to Know About California’s New Data Privacy Law
New staffing law bedevils nursing homes
Hate crimes rise for third straight year
Gun owners couldn’t meet registration deadline due to state computer crashes, yet that didn’t stop spike in assault weapon registrations
Glendale police detective pleads guilty to obstruction, lying to feds
U.S. Marine sentenced in stabbing of Janesville man
Millionaires Leaving California Over Taxes
Tesla will be the first automaker to lose the taxpayer funded federal tax credit for electric cars
COLORADO: Federal tax payers funding repair of storm damaged Reservoir In Thornton
How To Protect Your Colorado License Plates From Theft
CONNECTICUT: New State Laws
rise in online dating, internet crimes
police chief retires amid scrutiny over suicide probe
DELAWARE: County corrections officer charged with sexual misconduct
FLORIDA: Search and rescue volunteer arrested for impersonating a cop
Corrections officer arrested and fired after she beat pregnant shackled woman
More than 450 people in Florida ordered to surrender guns
Hundreds of new laws that took effect July 1 (and one law that didn’t)
GEORGIA: Gang activity getting worse
Other Georgia laws that took effect
HAWAII: 2 arrested after cop killed
Appeals court: 2nd Amendment protects open carry of guns
IDAHO: Once again exalted taxpayer funded leaders of Pocatello are claiming their city is booming, even placing an article in the local newspaper disputing all claims of increasing poverty. Pocatello native Reverend Roger Bray got so upset he countered with his own article saying “…the poverty rate in Bannock County was 16 percent of our households; while households classified in the ALICE category were listed at 22 percent. The combined rate of those struggling added up 38 percent of all Bannock County households… ….the conclusions of the 24/7 Wall St. study and the ALICE study, conducted by two divergent groups with different methodologies and for different purposes, converge. Together they demonstrate that there are significant economic challenges faced by a large portion of our community….. …the levy rate for Pocatello has moved up steadily. Pocatello now has the highest accumulative property tax rate of the 10 largest cities in Idaho….”
Refugee who fled violence in Ethiopia mourns daughter slain in Boise
Domestic violence deaths are on the rise in Idaho – especially murder
Prison overcrowding forces Ada County To Study Criminal Justice Reform
Statewide prison overcrowding causing ‘criminal justice crisis,’ may have to declare emergency
Drivers ticketed for going too slow under new law
Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Idaho (and taxpayer funded leaders of Idaho have a real good record of losing lawsuits)
Idaho Public Utilities Commission postpones Avista and Hydro One merger
Idaho gears up to boost logging on federal land
ILLINOIS: More than half the state’s counties are on a poverty watch list
Nearly 2,300 women are now serving time in prison
transgender woman sues to move to women’s prison
Herrin Police Department initiates new ‘street crimes’ unit
Belleville cop forced woman into sex act
INDIANA: The city of Fort Wayne not renewing a contract with Fleet Services Company, 25 taxpayer funded jobs gone in September.
Van Buren town marshal arrested on burglary and thefts charges
Dozens of NEW Laws Went Into Effect (eyeball tattoos?)
IOWA: New state laws affecting farmers
KANSAS: New state laws
tax receipts up $1.2 billion from previous year, due to lawmakers reneging on promised state income tax cuts!
KENTUCKY: Record number of new laws you have to obey!
LOUISIANA: No tax-free weekends for 7 years
Local sales tax rates reduced, but still considered high
MAINE: 15000 Taxpayers May Have to File Amended state tax Returns!
U.S. Border Patrol Stops Canadian Fishermen in Disputed Waters Off Maine
Medical marijuana legalized but age to smoke tobacco raised
MARYLAND: Federal regulators approve natural gas pipeline on west side of state
several new state laws that may affect your business
MASSACHUSETTS: New anti-gun law allows your anti-gun relatives to legally take your guns by claiming you’re a threat!
Police Release School Vandals Due to Change in state law
MICHIGAN: History of Michigan’s unConstitutional religious ‘blue laws’, used to punish ‘non-believers’!
Municipalities bristle at state’s copper, lead laws
MINNESOTA: New Laws In Minnesota
People with records of intoxicated driving now banned from state parks?
will early property tax payments pay off
Minnesota to e-retailers: Start collecting taxes
State income tax not unconstitutional (according to taxpayer funded state court)
MISSISSIPPI: Mississippi laws: What’s new this month
MISSOURI: prison guard sued for third time over alleged sex assaults
New prison system program costs taxpayers $5-million USD
Sheriff and deputy caught having affair, also facing multiple felony charges
Continued Increase in Federal Regional Violent Crime Prosecutions
MONTANA: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections
Riot at Cascade County Detention Facility
NEBRASKA: In the predominantly ‘christian’ state, cops have been using convict data to seek out, harass and intimidate state employees who were former prisoners!
Looser gun restrictions among new state laws
NEVADA: more than a dozen new laws
Tax revenue from marijuana sales set new high
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Online taxes: New Hampshire Steps Back
New Hampshire makes it tougher for students to vote.
NEW JERSEY: State taxpayers forced to fund local news media!
NEW MEXICO: Political corruption killing local economy
State cop preyed on woman, teen
State prisons will soon fill up
NEW YORK: State ‘criminal justice system’ is not about fighting crime, it’s all about Social Control.
New law forces Airbnb to open its books to New York
A state Law Tailored for Orthodox Jewish Schools Is Unconstitutional
New Yorkers Trying to Flee High State Taxes Find Moving Isn’t So Easy
NORTH CAROLINA: consumers could see $5B coal-ash cleanup bill
28 Sex Crimes Charges Dropped Against Police Officer
NORTH DAKOTA: Supplier of electricity to public utilities, Basin Electric Power Cooperative eliminated 25 jobs, and warned of possible future layoffs.
Groups sue over oil refinery near national park
OHIO: Fat taxpayer funded Pentagon budget brings jobs to struggling M1A1 tank factory
payday lending law could slam short-term lenders
OKLAHOMA: Prison incarceration rate “up 700 percent”
State Health department attorney confessed to faking threats
” the largest abrogation of state sovereignty by a federal court in American history”
Black U.S. politician reported to police while canvassing for votes
Federal taxpayers now owners of bankrupt Lost Valley Farm mega dairy!
Asylum-seekers endure horrible conditions in Oregon prison
PENNSYLVANIA: Court upholds Philadelphia soda tax
PUERTO RICO: mayor, two others arrested on corruption charges
U.S. Army to Invest $62M in Puerto Rico
SOUTH CAROLINA: New South Carolina laws
gas taxes rising by another 2 cents per gallon
SOUTH DAKOTA: Nearly 300 new laws take effect!
Dentist and community activist accused of ‘touching’ female prisoners in Minnehaha County Jail
Wrong Man Released From Jail Turns Himself In
Lawsuit over prison food going to court
TEXAS: Taxpayer funded Red River Army Depot to layoff more than 300 workers
VERMONT: Legalizes Limited Amounts Of Recreational Cannabis
Tax Department Backlog Leads to Errors in Tax Bills
WASHINGTON: A look at Seattle neighborhoods where crime is up
Gun owners face fines up to $10000 for not locking up their guns
From straw bans to $15 minimum wage
Washington DC: DoD Contractors Can Self-Report Derogatory Information
New tax law creates challenges for farmers
Trump signs new law to Help Grandparents Raising Grandkids
Don’t Count On A Tax Refund Next April
tax-exempt organizations no longer need to list donor information
WEST VIRGINIA: Berkeley County attorney found guilty of witness intimidation
WISCONSIN: ‘It’s a huge subsidy’: the $4.8bn taxpayer funded gamble to lure foreign Foxconn to Wisconsin, and to steal your property Foxconn and Eminent Domain: Using Blighted Property Designations
Court OKs Unconscious suspected intoxicated Drivers’ Blood Draws
State to expand collections of online sales tax
WYOMING: New ‘Gun’ Law
City of Cody, known for no animal laws, now wants to regulate your pets and livestock.
DUMBING DOWN THE U.S.A., JULY 2018: SCHOOL CRIMES SKYROCKETING!
OBAMACARE ACA DEATH SPIRAL, JULY 2018: ‘PHANTOM MEDICAL’ CLAIMS
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, JULY 2018: “A STATE OF NEAR DEATH.”
U.S. GOVERNMENT SHENANIGANS, JUNE 2018: “THIS ISN’T FOSTER CARE, THIS IS STATE-SPONSORED KIDNAPPING!”