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Paying Federal Taxes is Voluntary?
“Former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller says the income tax is voluntary.” (cue to 02:07) The post Paying Federal Taxes is Voluntary? first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Transnational Corporations Provoke a Single Scream of Horror that Runs through the Vertebrae of the World
Quentin Matsys (The Netherlands), The Tax Collectors, c. 1525–1530. Within the United Nations, there is a little-known debate about the status of global tax regulation. In August 2023, UN Secretary-General António Guterres released a draft document called ‘Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the United Nations’. This document comes out of a […]
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Taxes in America Are Unfair to Most Americans
For decades, time and again, America’s tax code has been twisted and tweaked to give tax breaks to the top and crumbs (or nothing) to the tens of millions on the bottom and in the middle. Levels of wealth and inequality have become so gross that experts are clamoring for change, painting unflattering portraits of […]
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Government Debt is Not the Problem
Polarization of the American public reflects the polarization of its political Parties, both of whom strive for ascendancy by demeaning, contradicting, and formulating proposals to wrong the other; each Party wrongs itself and the American public. The recent and periodic arguments concerning the proposed federal budget, an entrance for initiating threats to “close the government,” […]
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Foolishness, Hypocrisy, the GOP and the IRS
Take your pick from two definitions of modern-day Republicans: foolish hypocrites or hypocritical fools. When it comes to America’s $32 trillion federal deficit, each one is as fitting as the other. They’re hypocrites for saying one thing and doing another. They’re fools because the actions they take are driving the deficit ever higher. Let’s listen […]
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Approximately 26% of U.S. Government Spending Goes to Weapon-Makers
The vast majority of the U.S. Government’s purchases are for the military, and most of that is paying for weapons and for enabling America’s troops to use them. For example, in the 3 April 2018 “OMB and Congressional Budget Office estimates of discretionary new budget authority” that “The President signed … into law on March […]
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Give More Bite of the Apple to Charity
Here is a letter that Steve Clifford and I sent to the CEO Tim Cook of Apple corporation, whose percentage of charitable giving relative to its taxable income is astoundingly low as compared to other corporations noted below. Apple should increase its charitable giving. April 24, 2023 Tim Cook, CEO Apple, Inc. One Apple Park […]
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Fiscal Insanity: The Government Borrows $6 Billion a Day, and We’re Stuck with the Bill
We’re not living the American dream. We’re living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card. The government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones being forced to foot the bill for the government’s […]
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