Sunday, March 31, 2019

Taxing...

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New York lawmakers have a potent incentive to help make sure they pass a $175 billion state budget by Sunday's deadline: A $10,000 pay raise.
The state's 213 lawmakers are scheduled to see their base pay increased from $110,000 to $120,000 on Jan. 1, 2020, as part of a three-year schedule approved by the state Compensation Committee last year.
The raise takes effect only upon the "timely legislative passage of the budget."   
Agency commissioners appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as well as the state attorney general and comptroller, are also due a Jan. 1 raise that will take effect only if the budget is on time.
Assembly Democrats appeared to clear one of the major remaining hurdles, saying they back congestion pricing, a new tax on drivers below 61st Street in Manhattan.
Raises were also recommended for Cuomo to make $250,000 a year by 2021.
Taxing the people of New York, is the goal for these Democrats while give the corporation prime land and billions of dollars in breaks.

Borders...

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The United States was home to 12.2 million in 2007, according to the most recent Pew Research Center estimates. This decade a decrease in unauthorized immigrants from Mexico, even as the numbers from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras increased. Meanwhile, a growing share of unauthorized immigrants had arrived legally and then overstayed their visas.

More recent data from the federal government show that 2018 saw an uptick in border apprehensions. There were nearly 467,000 apprehensions at the southwest border last year, the most in any calendar year since at least 2012. Still, the number of apprehensions in 2018 remained far below the more than 1 million apprehensions per fiscal year routinely recorded during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border survived a critical vote in the House, as Democrats failed to override his veto.    

In February 2019,  76,103 illegal without the needed documentation to enter the U.S. either presented themselves at legal ports of entry or were apprehended by Border Patrol between ports of entry.

Most likely the illegals problem will help the president  in the next election particularly that the Democrats are in hiding. Just a thought.

Extortion...

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Sex-related extortion rose 30 percent in the U.K. in the last year alone, the National Crime Agency said.
The nature of the sextortion  seems to be changing. Young men are the main victims, and are increasingly being targeted by individuals, especially by females.

Victims are befriended on dating apps including Tinder and Grinder, and then blackmailed when they share photos or information that may be embarrassing.
 Extortionists demanding money from men/ women by using threats to report their requests for explicit photos to police or their sexual practices to family members.

The criminals are often acting alone, but investigators found that the crimes were mostly carried out by overseas organized groups.