The University of Pennsylvania will block transgender athletes from female sports teams and erase the records set by swimmer Lia Thomas as part of an agreement with the federal government, the Department of Education said. The agreement comes as part of the Trump administration's broader restrictions on transgender people, as it steps up its efforts to ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports nationwide and serving in the military. read more
Newsom doesn't want to fund California's new tough-on-crime law. Who should? Supporters of Prop. 36 wanted at least $250 million. The governor gave them nothing. California voters overwhelmingly approved a tough-on-crime ballot measure in the November election, but it still lacks hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as state legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom battle over how to finance the new law. read more
Why was Canada even imposing this tariff? Because Trump imposed tariffs.
~Snoofy
You sure?
The proposed Act would implement the Digital Services Tax (DST) announced in the 2020 Fall Economic Statement, further details of which were presented in Budget 2021. Annex 7 to the Budget set out the policy intention, described the main features of the proposed tax, and invited input from stakeholders.
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Canada's Digital Services Tax Act was enacted on June 20, 2024 and came into effect by Order in Council on June 28, 2024. The new legislation imposes a digital services tax of 3% on digital services revenue exceeding C$20 million. As noted below, the first payment is due on June 30, 2025.
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First, the foreign-born share of the population in a county was highly correlated with a shift toward Trump. Second, Trump likely won the immigrant vote. Naturalized immigrants went from favoring Biden in 2020 by 27 points to favoring Trump by one point.
LiesHurt, its been rising steadily since the 70's when it was down to about 4%, to todays possible 27% by 2030.
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Remember when Snoofy said what happened in 1971... well there's your sign.
To say nothing of the fact that saving millions of lives is a good thing to aspire to, doing this in the manner it was done is beyond cruel.
This is poor thinking.
The reproductive rates in those countries is higher than in the First world. You're just inviting more problems. I am not saying let everyone die, but certainly there needs to be pressure on this rate. I see no reason China or America should support this reproduction rate.