The power to tax has long conferred the power to destroy political opponents. But in the glorious era of President Joe Biden, all previous cases of government abuse of power are being expunged, at least by the media and Biden supporters. That is why it is supposedly safe to vastly increase the power of perhaps the most feared federal agency, the Internal Revenue Service.
After announcing his endless wish list for new federal spending, Biden told Congress last week: “I’ve made clear that we can do it without increasing deficits.”
Biden believes he has found a goose that will lay golden eggs for federal revenue - a new army of IRS agents to hound Americans and corporations to pay far more taxes.
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A young woman s imprisonment in 1896 Havana becomes headline fodder for two American newspaper giants fueling U.S. involvement in Cuba s rebellion against brutal Spanish rule. But the story behind the headlines, as told by Chanel Cleeton in her new novel,
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba, is an inspirational tale of courage, love, and losses for three unforgettable women.
Cleeton selects her main characters deftly: The real-life Cuban revolutionary Evangelina Cisneros is the book s title character, joined by two fictional women, Grace Harrington, a newspaper reporter inspired by Nelly Bly, and Marina, the wife of a farmer s son ostracized by her wealthy family.
Why Bill and Melinda Gates divorce is literally your business
When people like the Gateses get divorced, it can have a massive impact on people all over the world.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that this divorce could have a meaningful impact around the world.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
May 7, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC
So Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced. The most interesting thing about this story, so it would seem, is that we’re so interested in it. After all, this appears to be the most boring kind of divorce imaginable: Two people who have been married for a long time grow apart over the years and part amicably. There’s no gossip, no salacious details. Yet this story is important enough, and people are fascinated enough by it, that it is front-page news.
Through her popular historical novels, bestselling author Chanel Cleeton offers a fresh glimpse into Cuba’s tumultuous past. Her latest,
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba, is set on the eve of the Spanish-American War, as the island country is ravaged by conflict between Cuban revolutionaries and the Spanish military.
The story unfolds through the eyes of three women: Evangelina Cisneros, a beautiful socialite who finds herself in the infamous Recogidas prison after rebuffing the advances of a Spanish military official; Marina Perez, who along with her husband is aiding the revolutionaries while living in deplorable conditions at a reconcentration camp; and Grace Harrington, a cub reporter trying to make her mark at William Randolph Hearst’s New York newspaper.
On New Year s Day last year, Melinda Gates told her Instagram followers that her heart was full as she celebrated her long marriage to Bill, wishing a happy anniversary to the man who keeps me dancing through life .
What a shock it was, then, when we heard this multi-billionaire couple are divorcing after 27 supposedly happy years together.
Now Melinda says her marriage is irretrievably broken , and the dancing has stopped.
In a pandemic that has sent divorce rates soaring, especially among older couples, the marital travails of this privileged pair struck a sad chord with many.
If the Gateses, with their unimaginable advantages, can t make it work, who can?