The IRS Versus Tax Loopholes
The IRS will stop at nothing to capture a few more bucks in revenue. They seek the cooperation of foreign banks, and even crossed the Constitutional line. Taxation is theft. The U.S. was founded in part as a resistance to taxation. And for about 100 years, that resistance was pretty effective. Then, in 1862 an […]
A Biden Presidency Comes With Tax Hikes
If Biden wins the presidential election, taxes will go up considerably for many Americans. That doesn’t look good for an already ailing economy. October 19, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Election season is upon us. Love it or hate it, it does present some possible changes in policy. At one point we saw […]
Checkpoint 2020: What We Have & What’s Ahead
While some are hopeful 2020 was a fluke year, looking forward, it’s more important than ever to carve out options that maximize your independence. October 12,2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP Politics these days has become — no, has regressed into — nothing more than petty rumor spreading. I saw a post a while […]
COVID-19 Tracing Apps Destroy Privacy (As You’d Expect)
Contact tracing is the latest in surveillance monitoring and like everything else is being done in the name of “public safety”. But is the risk more than it’s worth? As part of the U.S. governors’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, quite a few have decided to implement a contact tracing program. That means if you […]
COVID-19 Opens the Door for a U.S. Police State
US governors are getting too comfortable with their COVID-19 emergency powers, that they might start to emulate Australia’s police state. Unless you’ve been living in a cabin out in the woods, you’ve been saturated with media coverage of COVID-19. Lots of the typical “fear porn,” which includes the carefully-reported statistics manipulated in such a way […]
CDC Tramples Private Property Rights
The CDC is pushing rental agreement contracts aside and trampling private property rights in the name of mitigating viral spread. September 21, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP I imagine some of you, like me, have investment properties. Whether you rent out to long term or short term tenants, you probably thought your property […]
You Can’t Even Use a Browser Without Being Spied On
Google recently removed over one hundred extensions off its browser that illegally collected user data, targeting large industries such as oil, gas, finance, and healthcare. Even surfing the Internet can open the door to your private information. And it isn’t your fault this is happening, either. A recent example is a disclosure of more than […]
California Folly Might Go Federal
California seeks to follow the federal government in chasing offshore taxes, while the federal government is following California’s example against gig workers. August 24, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director, GWP Watching California is like watching the fall of a great empire. As I look further into it, it looks like California and the Federal […]
SCOTUS Approved Warrantless Searches: Open Fields Doctrine
SCOTUS approved warrantless searches nearly one-hundred years ago, and it’s secretly been in effect and practice ever since, with five states rejecting the Open Fields doctrine. August 17, 2020 By: Bobby Casey, Managing Director GWP The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, […]
Facebook Wants ALL of Your Personal Information
Facebook might have found a back door into your personal data and the only line of defense is a domain registrar called Namecheap. If it wasn’t bad enough that companies like Facebook, Google, and even Microsoft were trying to package some of your private data and sell it in various ways… Now Facebook is taking […]
