President Obama, just a few
months late, will
unveil a budget including tax hikes (surprise!) and cuts to
Medicare and Social Security.- Add Maryland to the list of states taking advantage of public
panic over Newtown to
restrict self-defense rights. Meanwhile, a Texas non-profit is
arming people who live in high-crime neighborhoods but can't afford
guns. - Reforming wildly underfunded public pensions may be beyond the
ability or interest of most state lawmakers, but Puerto Rico's
legislators
voted to do just that. The plan raises the retirement age,
increases worker contributions and reduces benefits. It also
transitions over from a defined-benefit system. - Scott Brown may run for office again, but
this time from New Hampshire. Well, he wouldn't be the first
Bay Stater to head north. - As France's politicians stake their reputation on taxing the
hell out of everything, the revelation that now-former Budget
Minister Jerome Cahuzac evaded taxes
threatens to bring down the Socialist government. - A little more accustomed to crazy neighbors than most, South
Koreans
aren't letting the nuclear saber-rattling to the north bring them
down. - Ohio courts
still routinely jail people who fail to pay fines and fees,
even though that was long ago ruled illegal.
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