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From Open Europe news summary:
Commission takes UK to ECJ over reduced VAT rate for energy efficient goods
The UK Government is being taken to the ECJ by the European Commission for offering reduced VAT rates to encourage homeowners to make their houses more energy-efficient. The European Commission claimed yesterday that, under EU rules, such VAT reductions must be linked to “social policy.”
Here’s a trend you’ll be reading more about: part-time “job sharing,” not only within firms but across different businesses.
It’s already happening across the country at fast-food restaurants, as employers try to avoid being punished by the Affordable Care Act. In some cases we’ve heard about, a local McDonalds has hired employees to operate the cash register or flip burgers for 20 hours a week and then the workers head to the nearby Burger King or Wendy’s to log another 20 hours. Other employees take the opposite shifts. (Read more)
The anti-Rand Pauls, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, took to the Senate floor this morning to defend killing American citizens at presidential discretion. Graham is doing so live on C-SPAN2 right now, saying that everything you do is a danger to America no matter who or where you are, as long as the U.S. government has decided you have “joined al-Queda,” whatever the hell that means. (Read more)