But let’s look at what happened in the five most important ballot initiatives of 2024. The biggest decision of the day was in Oregon, where voters were asked to pass Measure 118, which would have imposed a big tax on businesses to finance a universal handout (sort of a basic income st...
International observers, including the OSCE and the ODIHR, previously reported "irregularities", including "vote buying" and "ballot box stuffing". "Fundamental freedoms were generally respected in the campaign, but it was marred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector emp...
The left put a referendum on the ballot that would have lowered the retirement age back to 60 and also nationalized the nation’s private retirement accounts. As explained by Marcos Falcone in a column for the Foundation for Economic Education, voters overwhelming rejected this statist initiative....
In a speech given on November 6, the 38thanniversary of the “Green March” that claimed the Western Sahara for Morocco, King Muhammad VI accused Algeria of paying various human rights organizations to produce reports critical of Morocco’s administration in the Western Sahara. Other critics “unf...
policy. You take to the ballot box to change the govt. Alan Jutson April 9, 2021 Mockbeggar. Indeed that is an option but: Not so easy when all Parties think similar on so many topics, then once voted in do their own thing ! glen cullen April 10, 2021 There is a politician ...
Selection methods: Entries will be held on May 6 -8 organizations to adopt the secret ballot. Second, speech contests: 1 Topic: my heart southeast of Nanjing, in my heart 2, entry requirements: each participating student speech time is 5 minutes, the language requirements for English and Chin...
continued to congratulate themselves for being very clever about it all. Then PAP chairman Toh Chin Chye said of the referendum in a 1996 interview, ‘The ballot paper was crafted by Lee Kuan Yew. Whichever way you voted, you voted for merger. …Few understood the ballot paper….How do ...
In a democracy, the power of the people comes is expressed with the ballot. But that power can be subverted by misinformation, a tactic the 1% have used for millennia. Because of previous brainwashing, many people initially resist anything that counters the propaganda of the ruling class (as ...
on October 11, 2022 at 7:31 am The Most Important Ballot Referendum of 2022 | International Liberty […] be the case if voters in Massachusetts approve a referendum next month to junk the state’s flat tax and replace it with a class-warfare system that has a top rate of 9 […] on...
P.S. Don’t forget that there are several important ballot initiatives today. Addendum: Can’t resist adding this cleverly doctored photo of Chelsea reading a bedtime story. Though, to her credit, Chelsea isn’t associated with any bad policy ideas. The same can’t be said for Ivanka Trump...