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Tag: Public finance

  • President Trump: Give Back the Money and Stop Grabbing More

    The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief. You took the money illegally; now you should return it. President Donald Trump, you took funds from the American people that were never yours to take. […]

  • Americans Deserve Fairer Social Security Taxes

    Social Security has been a financial rock for seniors ever since benefits first began flowing in 1940. For decades though, for those above an income threshold, pieces of that rock have been chiseled away: a 1983 law makes up to 50 percent of benefits subject to federal income taxes. Levying a tax on benefits was […]

  • Paying Federal Taxes is Voluntary?

    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.

  • 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 […]

  • Approximately 26% of U.S. Government Spending Goes to Weapon-Makers

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

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