FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) includes 2 taxes: Social Security and Medicare. Both Social Security and Medicare taxes are deducted from each paycheck to fund these important government programs. How much are Social Security and Medicare taxes?
Even though Homebrewing was made legal by the United States government in 1979, states still reserved the right to regulate the production of beer & spirits in whatever way they saw fit, leaving the the last state to finally make HomeBrewing legal as recently as July of 2013! With each sta...
Last Updated April 25, 2024.Below is a complete index to the official corporate and business entity forms sources maintained by each state government in the United States. Many of the forms linked from this page have been digitized in Adobe PDF and thus require thatAdobe Acrobat Reader, availab...
California Asia Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus A legislator I was talking with recently stumbled for a moment over the plural of "caucus," finally blurting "cauci." He laughed, knowing that it was wrong but that I had understood that he meant caucuses. But then I got to thinking: If...
As war is one of the government's most costly functions, serving as commander in chief is one of the president's most important duties. It's also one of the most controversial. Did the Constitution give the president this duty solely to establish the military are under civilian control? Or...
Analysis of journalistic fields is dominated by approaches that take news media at the nation-state level as the major unit of analysis. More recently, soc
Democrat Gavin Newsom of California was the only governor to mention “single payer” health care, or the idea that the government should pay for everyone’s health care with private insurance plans effectively eliminated, but he mentioned it only as a “long-term goal.” Likewise, only ...
The chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants to be an ally of the incoming FBI director.
Eminent domainis defined as “the right of the government to take (condemn) private property for public use; however, the owner must be given just compensation for the taking” (Schwab et al., 2007). The Bible refers to one of the first instances of eminent domain, as Naboth was compensa...
© Visit California | The sun might still be shining, but there are storm clouds on California wine's horizon. How the wine industry is doing during the pandemic depends on who you ask. Some companies are experiencing record growth; others fear having to shut their doors forever. ...