Amerika-in-Exile (the Tulio Baars Homepage)

The Democratic plan for a 42% national sales tax A 42% national sales tax (known as a valued-added tax) would generate about $3 trillion in revenue. But it would destroy the consumer spending that’s the backbone of the U.S. economy. A tax of that magnitude would be like 42% inflation, wrecking consumer budgets and the many companies that depend on them, from Walmart and Amazon to your local car dealer. As usual, the Left has a plan to take and redistribute that will destroy society, forcing us further into the decay cycle where we are "mass mobilized" by war or militarization in preparation for war. The Right likes to grow healthy people; the Left likes to assemble a mass and force them to keep the empire running. Sane people side with organic growth and natural selection instead of mass conformity and ideological obligation. Majority of Germans want Turkey kicked out of NATO: survey NATO serves in theory as an organization to defend Western Europe. Turkey, o...

Christmas meal treats 'under threat' Its chief executive, Nick Allen, told the BBC that wrapping cocktail sausages in bacon was done by hand. He said the job was "fiddly and hard to mechanise". The people who survived the Blitz, the Norman invasions, rationing, the Cold War, and the perfidious French will do something that workers apparently do not think they can do: bacon-wrap their own sausages. Over 40 skulls found at altar in den of Mexico cartel suspects Everybody wants their own skullthrone. In this case, it turns out that people who like drugs also like Santeria-style religions. That old, boring monocultural America starts to look better every day, except that of course I could not have my skullthrone and ear necklace. Then again, if the Resource Wars go about as I expect them to, you will soon be able to purchase such things at Ikea. US business hiring falls to a 7-year low It is hard to tell from scant data, but what I have seen is th...