“Most significantly, the TPP does not address a massive cost to U.S. goods and services that has a chokehold on our export levels: foreign Value-Added Tax (VAT) schemes. The United States is one of only a handful of nations worldwide that does not charge a VAT on incoming manufactures and services. But 10 of the …
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You think education is expensive? Then just try ignorance. It’s alive and well and thriving in a town quite near you.
After nine African-Americans were gunned down by a racist as they attended a bible study class in Charleston, South Carolina, Charles Cotton, a board member of the NRA, explained who was really to blame for this horrific act of domestic terrorism. One of the murder victims, State Senator Clementa Pinckney, had voted against conceal carry guns. Said Cotton, “Eight of …
China is experiencing a huge wave of African migration into major industrial areas such as Guangzhou. There are around 300,000 undocumented Africans residing in the city, many of them in the trading business. About one in ten have Chinese wives or girlfriends. 90 percent of them are undocumented because they failed to obtain a visa. They are frequently …
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Fast Track Trade Authority (TPA) has now passed both houses of Congress, with 28 Democrats in the House and 13 Democratic U.S. senators supporting President Obama and the corporations by voting “yes.” This means that, once the Fast Track bill is signed, Obama will be able to complete the negotiations for one of the two …
