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Porcfest :: Cell Phone Ticket Fees :: IRS Signature Demands :: Police Encounters :: Amazon Sticks it to the State :: Affiliate Programs :: Pole Dancing Fitness Class Targeted :: Refusal to Move :: Kuwait :: Ed and Elaine Brown :: Communicating to Prospects :: All-knowing Talk Hosts? :: Cops Destroy Elderly Couple’s Home in Mistaken Raid
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Urban Rangers? :: North Korea Threat :: Mark’s Atheist Comments :: Guns and Convicts :: NY Tax Penalties :: FORD and Tesla to Take Tax Dollars :: Anarchists and Violence :: Bureaucrat Apologizes! :: Ludicrous Scenario :: Jaded Police Trainer Tells it Like it Is
TSA Tyranny :: Federal Water :: Getting Active :: Project Graduation and Adult Children :: Free State Project :: Stateless Person :: Secession vs. Independence :: Market Justice :: Anarchism vs. Voluntaryism
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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) promulgated new, stricter regulations for diesel truck emissions, last December, that significantly reduce the amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) emissions allowed in the state. Diesel PM 2.5 is made up of fine particles of soot from diesel emissions that can be inhaled deeply into the lungs, and is often blamed for premature deaths. However, California’s new regulation will do nothing to improve public health, while costing millions.
California is the only state with such a diesel emissions reduction program, largely because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has never determined that diesel exhaust causes premature deaths. For example, the agency’s large, detailed study in 2002 failed to find that diesel exhaust causes premature deaths. As Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Dr. Henry Miller points out, the new regulations constitute an overreach by CARB—based on faulty science—that would drive business out of California.
Bad Police Stories :: Rigged System :: They own you. :: Corporation Conspiracy :: Videographer Dave Ridley Sentenced to Jail :: Government Club :: Bad Customer Experience :: Mass Vaccinations Planned? :: Acceptance of Theft :: Secret Society :: Porcfest to be Raided? :: Ridley Corners Prosecutor :: Agorism
Dr. Walter Block joins us to defend the undefendables like slumlords, statutory rapists, and voluntary cannibals. :: Encouraging Irresponsiblity :: Libertarianism :: Pompous Jerk :: Invading Japan :: Greed :: Money and Evil? :: Angry Bureaucrats :: Quakerism :: Socialist Fascism :: Market Restrictions :: Illegal Tattoos :: Edcuation at Your Own Pace :: Using the System
Sam’s Mail in Jail :: Socialist Medicine :: Iran Media Lockdown :: Blowback :: Dog Licensing :: You have no obligation to open the door for or talk to govt police and bureaucrats. :: Violence Begets Violence :: Peace is the Way :: Mass Disobedience :: Wales :: $80,000 Per Song :: Dave Ridley’s Trial :: New to Voluntaryism :: Quakers :: Extended Internet Only Edition
Bee Keeping :: AltExpo :: Canadian Socialist Healthcare :: The FTL BBS :: Church Sentence :: Volunteering :: Family and False Obligation :: Govt Mandated and Provided Health Insurance :: Food Regulations :: Grudges :: Switzerland :: Revenge Website :: Porcfest :: Minarchy :: Bonus Internet Edition Interview with Radio and Podcast Consultant Holland Cooke
There are currently several proposals to create national regulation for insurance. Currently, insurers operating in a given state must operate under that state’s insurance laws. A federally chartered insurance company would have to obey all general state business regulations, but it would be regulated by a new federal bureau, which would enforce the same insurance-specific laws throughout the country.
The proposals currently under discussion have many similarities to previous proposals for an Optional Federal Charter (OFC), but are not the same thing. They create a national regulator for insurance, but also allow significant powers to remain at the state level and require the creation of state-level offices.
Were a federal regulatory system to become law, it is highly likely that most sizeable insurance companies would create new federally regulated subsidiaries that would have a measure of legal independence but would operate under the same corporate umbrella as their existing operations. Nearly all insurers would maintain some state-regulated operations alongside these new federally chartered bodies,.
A bill currently before the House of Representatives (H.R. 1880) would create a new national mechanism to oversee property and casualty, life, and commercial insurance. Medical insurance would not be included. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has also proposed a degree of national oversight for insurers and a companion bill to H.R. 1880 is expected to appear in the Senate soon.
The proposals before Congress would set up new national mechanisms to protect consumers against insurance fraud and to ensure federally chartered insurers’ solvency. These systems would work similarly to existing state-level bodies. In other words, a degree of government oversight would remain. The proposed House and Senate bills contain no mechanisms to let government set rates. However, about 45 states do have such laws and much of the controversy over these bills stems from the fact that the proposals would create new federal laws.
Mason Paranoia :: Jail Death :: Federal Power to Shut Down Business :: Agorism and the Underground Economy :: Loan Kookery :: Warehouse Bank Bust :: Flea Market Freedom? :: Silver Acceptance :: Protestors are Terrorists? :: Fall of Empire :: Decentralized Banking :: Social Security :: Peter Schiff and the Economy
Judge Andrew Napolitano joins us to discuss freedom, his internet TV show and new book. :: Use the System, Get Arrested :: Litigious Society :: Life as a Fed :: Secession :: Stop Sign Semi-Success :: Peace vs. Defensive Force :: Marijuana Disobedience :: Rejecting Racists :: Whiners? :: Bewildered Caller
TOLEDO, Ohio — Residents of Toledo are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways.
Antiterrorism training materials used by the Department of Defense teach that public protests should be regarded as “low-level terrorism,” according to a letter of complaint sent to the department by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
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