On this Fourth of July, let us think of our patriot farmers. Also our domestic glass-blowers, soap-makers, even people who produce feed for our critters. For all use potash — "mineral and chemical salts that are rich in potassium". And all of them fell victim to a 600 percent price increase that resulted from a
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RICO Tax Case Loses in Supreme Court
By Barry Barnett on
The U.S. Supreme Court took aim today at "the troubling specter of turning RICO into a tax collection statute." Hemi Group LLC v. City of New York, No. 08-969, slip op. at 13 n.2 (U.S. Jan. 25, 2010). But the Court coudn't muster a majority on the reason why the specter had to die (give up the ghost?).…