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...from Tenth Amendment Center According to a study by the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, since 2001, America’s wars have cost $5.6 trillion. That equates to $23,000 per taxpayer. This is more than three times the Pentagon estimate – which still comes in at a staggeringly high $1.5 trillion. Study author, Neta Crawford said the Pentagon’s failure to account for much of the cost of waging war accounts for the discrepancy between official numbers and the study. “War costs are more than what we spend in any one year on what’s called the pointy end of the spear,” she told the  Wall Street Journal . “There are all these other costs behind the spear, and there are consequences of using it, that we need to include.” According to Newsweek , the study includes costs for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, along with support for allies in the battle against extremist groups, mostly eastern European countries such as Croatia, Georgia, Hunga...

...from Tenth Amendment Center In this episode, I cover the independence movements in the colonies. First with Rhode Island and Virginia, which severed their allegiances autonomously and formed independent republican governments prior to the Declaration of Independence. I next move to the Second Continental Congress, where Richard Henry Lee proposed a dissolution resolution, and a committee was formed to create a document to articulate the causes that impelled the American states to the separation. After doing so, I address the structure of the Declaration of Independence, its purposes, its influences, and its ramifications. WATCH Recommended Readings The Virginia Declaration of Rights Virginia Constitution of 1776 The Declaration of Independence Kevin Gutzman, Virginia’s American Revolution Mercy Otis Warren, The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution Murray Rothbard, Conceived in Liberty Dave Benner August 23, 2018 at 12:46PM

...from Tenth Amendment Center The federal government continues to find new and creative ways to obtain information for its massive and ever-expanding biometric database, Last year, we reported that the feds plan to use a TSA program advertised as a way to avoid lines at airport security checkpoints to harvest photos and other biometric information that will ultimately end up in multiple federal databases. We also revealed that private companies are getting into the act. The Lincoln Motor Company has partnered with CLEAR , a private company that helps travelers move through airport security more quickly. Again, biometric data collected by the program will almost certainly end up in the fed’s biometric databases. Now we have a report that the state of Minnesota enacted a law that will ultimately force thousands of people, including kids as young as 13, to submit their biometric information to the feds. The law passed last year imposed new background checks on child c...

...from Tenth Amendment Center SACRAMENTO . Calif. (Aug. 22, 2018) – Yesterday, the California Senate gave final approval to a bill that would sever a link between state and federal tax law, allowing individuals to deduct expenses from legal marijuana businesses for state income tax purposes. Enactment of the legislation would encourage the growth of the legal marijuana market in California and further nullify unconstitutional federal prohibition of cannabis in practice. Asm. Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) introduced Assembly Bill 1863 ( AB1863 ) on Jan. 11. Under current California law, the state personal income tax code conforms to federal tax law with respect to itemized deductions and business deductions. Under the federal tax code, individuals cannot deduct business expenses related to trafficking specified controlled substances, including marijuana. As a result, legal California marijuana business owners cannot currently deduct business expenses from their stat...

...from Tenth Amendment Center On this episode of Good Morning Liberty, host Michael Boldin ( follow ) talks about Wells Fargo joining the purge, booting a state-level candidate in Florida for receiving donations from members of the marijuana industry. He also talks about how the Federal Reserve has been acting like the DEA’s guard dog by pushing for this kind of outcome for years, and a warning on deplatforming for progressives from the ACLU. SHOW LINKS Wells Fargo Cuts off Candidate Colorado Credit Union vs Federal Reserve Bitchute vs Stripe ACLU warning Quote of the Day FOLLOW TAC: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TenthAmendmentCenter RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest Twitter: http://twitter.com/tenthamendment Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tenthamendmentcenter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tenthamendmentcenter/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Michael...

...from Tenth Amendment Center A recent lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association against the state of New York is an example of why the fight to keep and bear arms has to be won at the state level and in unorthodox ways. The NRA filed the lawsuit claiming New York Governor Andrew Cuomo illegally tried to force financial companies from doing business with the organization. For example, the NRA’s insurance provider dropped coverage in February. According to the NRA, “nearly every carrier has indicated that it fears transacting with” them. As a result, the gun rights group says it will have to shut down its rallies and conventions. It goes without saying that crippling the NRA financially would be a big victory for gun control activists. And every other political group should fear a similar thing happening to it should it run afoul of corrupt political leaders. However, it also demonstrates that the battle over gun rights must be fought in the states themselves rather than...

...from Tenth Amendment Center SACRAMENTO , Calif. (Aug 22, 2018) –  A California Assembly committee has effectively killed a bill that would have increased oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would have taken the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state. Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) introduced Senate Bill 1186 ( SB1186 ) back in February. The legislation would require local law enforcement agencies to draft a  Surveillance Use Policy for each type of surveillance technology it operates and the information collected. It would then have to submit the policy to its governing body for approval at a regularly scheduled hearing, open to the public. If the plan is not adopted, the law enforcement agency would be required to cease using all surveillance technology within 30 days. The proposed law would requir...