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Tag: Internal Revenue Service

  • Insufficient Press Coverage of Big Data Surveillance

    As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partnership with unregulated Big Tech, it also surveils online, helping itself to citizens’ personal identifiable information (PII). In the age of surveillance capitalism, information is a hot commodity for corporations and governments, precipitating a multi-billion-dollar industry […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • The 75-year Thievery of Joint Tax Returns

    Another tax season has ended, and more than 50 million returns arrived at the Internal Revenue Service marked “Married filing jointly”.  Few of the filers had any idea that joint returns—created in 1948 and modified in 1969—may be the oldest tax inequity in America. They’ve been picking various pockets for 75 years, and there’s little […]

  • Shifting Baseline Disorders: Only the One Percent is Bad

    Shifting Baseline Disorders: Only the One Percent is Bad

    But for now, let me repeat: the world’s richest 85 individuals do not have the same amount of accumulated wealth as the world’s poorest 50 percent. They have vastly more. The multitude on the lower rungs—even taken as a totality—have next to nothing. — Michael Parenti Funny stuff seeing the MoveOn outfit go after ONLY […]

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