In the news, Saturday, August 4, 2018

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from Mises Institute

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Government Worker Napped Three Hours Per Day for Four Years
The most robust study ever conducted on the topic found that the average California state government worker earned 23 percent more in total compensation than their similarly skilled and educated private-sector counterpart. That value rose to 33 percent above their private-sector counterpart, when the value of California state government workers’ legendary job security was included. But a recent report by the California State Auditor leaves one with the impression that the study vastly underestimated the true value of job security for government workers. In February of 2014, a DMV employee was documented by her supervisors for sleeping at work. According to four separate witnesses, the employee continued to sleep at her desk for a minimum of three hours a day, for nearly 4 years straight.

Europe Needs to "Harmonize" to Ireland's Tax Level, not to France's
Whenever we talk about tax cuts and growth-oriented tax programs in Europe, many tell us that “it is not possible” and that the European Union does not allow it. However, it is false. Attractive, growth-oriented tax systems are not only possible in the European Union, but those countries that implement them have higher economic growth rates, less unemployment, and a well-funded welfare state.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: The James Allsups of this world are not the Republican Party
There’s no question James Allsup is a white supremacist. His YouTube videos and writings are full of traditional white supremacist rhetoric that would have been found in underground newspapers a generation ago. The Spokane County Republicans denounced him in June with this statement over Cecily Wright’s signature as chairman: “His past statements, affiliations and actions are deeply out-of-step (sic) with the values of the Republican Party, as well as the values of the Spokane County GOP and our members.” The Spokane County GOP denounced him again this week, after now ex-Chairman Wright flip-flopped and applauded Allsup at a meeting of a local Republican club, without the knowledge or backing of the party. “Hate has no place here in the Republican Party, intolerance has no place in the Republican Party,” said Michael Baumgartner at a news conference on Thursday. Republicans have confronted Allsup’s rhetoric. Denouncing Republicans because Allsup and Co. use them for cover is really no different than denouncing all Muslims because of the existence of Al Qaeda, something the defenders of the left would quickly to point to as injustice, unless it looks like a good way to score points in the current political games.

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from The Washington Post

Newspaper in Washington, D.C.

Robert Martin, Tuskegee Airman who flew ‘63 and a half’ combat missions, dies at 99
Robert L. Martin, a combat pilot who said he flew “63 and a half” missions during World War II as part of the barrier-breaking Tuskegee Airmen, was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines with the help of Josip Broz Tito’s anti-fascist Yugoslav partisans, died July 26 at a senior living center in Olympia Fields, Ill. He was 99.

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