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It's the end of the line for Canada's humble penny. The government has decided the lowest denomination coin is more trouble than it's worth, so the Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing the penny this fall. "It costs taxpayers a penny-and-a-half every time we make one. We will, therefore, stop making them.", said Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.

Public Employee Unions Don't Get One Penny from Taxpayers and Can't Require Membership, But the Big Lie That They Do Is Everywhere

Man exonerated after 12 years of wrongful imprisonment. Received $600k in compensation from the state of Texas. The IRS originally told him that the money should be treated as if it were an insurance settlement for "pain and suffering". Now the IRS is coming after him for back taxes saying the money should be treated as "lost wages".

Guess who makes the most money on legal weed? Someone who doesn't do a damn thing except extort money from you.

She's encouraging high unemployment and more welfare.

Short video of the crowd at the annual hashbash cheering the national anthem. The speakers went on to argue that taxes should be paid on cannabis to help the poor; that money spent raiding Oaksterdam should have went to gun suppression; that even though voters have expressed their opinions and the state hasn't listened, there just needs to be more ballot measures and more voting.

At least the crowd booed the cops for arresting peaceful people.

Find out what programs the federal government spends the extortion money it collects on. This site breaks it down by type of spending and then to the individual places the money goes, as well as increase/decrease over a number of years. Very well done

In a blog we wrote last week, we told you of what happened in the Singleterry household. We told you that Joe didn't have enough money to buy another computer or pay for Internet service. We also told you that Joe did not have enough money to afford an alarm service for his low income apartment.

He does now.

You saw to it.

The federal agency charged with enforcing the nation's laws against money laundering has issued new guidelines suggesting that several parties in the Bitcoin economy qualify as Money Services Businesses under US law. MSBs must register with the federal government, collect information about their customers, and take steps to combat money laundering by their customers. The new guidelines do not mention Bitcoin by name, but there's little doubt which "de-centralized virtual currency" the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) had in mind when it drafted the new guidelines.