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Stuck in the past: Trump tariffs and other policies are dragging the U.S. back to the 19th century
2025-04-20 18:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
During Donald Trumps first term as president, the United States lurched from the absurdity of his lies to the use of his office for personal financial gain, his schoolyard insults and his utter contempt for critics. His term ended with his irresponsible and dangerous incitement of the assault on the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. This time around, Trump is relying on outdated tools tariffs, small government, territorial expansion and nationalism to solve modern problems of globalization, wealth disparities, the decline of manufacturing jobs and exploitative capitalism. On April 2, he announced a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports that arent compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement. Canada has also been hit with a 25 per cent levy on Canadian-made automobiles.The Trump administrations current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems that are wholly inappropriate for the 21st century threatens to take America back to the 19th century....
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Tax system is weaponised by ex-partners: ombudsman
2025-04-20 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
ExclusiveNationalDomestic violenceBy Wendy TuohyApril 3, 2025 4.00am, registeror subscribeto save articles for later.Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.When Melbourne woman Laura asked her then-husband how he could have fraudulently accrued $500,000 worth of tax debt in her name, his reply was blunt: I did it to put you in jail.Stories like hers shocked and disturbed the national tax ombudsman, Ruth Owen, who on Thursday released a report into identification and management of financial abuse within the tax system.The tax system was being weaponised by perpetrators using coercive control and business knowledge to deliberately create harm and financial distress to their intimate partners, said Owen, who is also the inspector-general of taxation.Victims often became aware they owed significant amounts only when they received penalty notices, and they usually had to pay the debts.Owen wants the Australian Taxation Office to provide ...
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Heavy rain ending this morning, spotty shower later
2025-04-20 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
More rain chances are in store this weekend, but neither day is a washout Christine FerreiraChief MeteorologistHeavy rain ending this morning, spotty shower later today in south-central PennsylvaniaMore rain chances are in store this weekend, but neither day is a washout LIGHTNING OUT THERE PRETTY MUCH RIGHT NOW. YES. STORMY START TO OUR FRIDAY FOR SURE. CHRISTINE. YOU GOT IT. AND A LOT OF FOLKS ARE UP AND ABOUT THIS MORNING BECAUSE OF THE THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING, THE HEAVY RAIN. BUT I DO THINK THE WORST OF IT IS RIGHT NOW. AND THEN IT WILL BE MOVING OUT BY 8:00. IT LOOKS A LOT QUIETER THAN SO JUST IMPACTS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. WATCH FOR PONDING ON THE ROAD, ESPECIALLY IF YOURE HEADED OUT. SPOTTY SHOWER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING, BUT I THINK MOST OF THE DAY IS GOING TO BE DRY AND IT WILL ALSO FEATURE MILD TEMPERATURES. HERES A LOOK AT OUR STORM TEAM LIVE RADAR NETWORK. WE DO HAVE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHESTER COUNTY, EASTERN CHESTER COUNTY HEADED TOWARD PHILA...
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