Internal Revenue Service
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Budgets/Taxes
Heartland Institute Event: Tax Expert Faults Trump’s Tax Reform Package for Failing to Address Taxpayer Assistance
by Nancy Thorner May 5, 2017In what turned out to be perfect timing, tax expert, Heartland Institute Policy Advisor, and author Daniel J. Pilla was the featured speaker on April 27 at the Heartland Institute on the same day Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn were sent out by President Trump to reveal his tax plan at a White House press conference briefing
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Internet/Telecom
George Soros And Google Champion Government Control Of The Internet
by Seton Motley April 28, 2017Part of the President Donald Trump Reality Revolution – is undoing the President Barack Obama Anti-Reality Revolution.
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Politics
Trump Is About To Shed An Obama Holdover – May It Be The Lead Of A Long Train
by Seton Motley April 6, 2017We have spent just about the entirety of the nascent Donald Trump Administration imploring them to rid themselves of every single Barack Obama Administration holdover they can identify.
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Budgets/Taxes
Government-Spending Limits Protect Against Invasion Of Taxmen
by Jesse Hathaway March 29, 2017No one knows exactly from where they come, but they descend like a horde of locusts, consuming resources people have labored all year to gather.
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Regulators mete out fines and stymie growth, but are rarely punished for their own misconduct.
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan government agency tasked with auditing, evaluating, and investigating government affairs for Congress, faults the Internal Revenue Service for failing to properly secure taxpayer data, leaving taxpayers’ private information at the mercy of hackers, both domestic and foreign. The report, delivered to IRS chief John Koskinen on March 28, says the IRS has failed to make recommended improvements to its financial and information-technology procedures.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedLiberty
Elizabeth and Sheldon Torquemada: Agenda of Intolerance and Retribution Against Critics of Ultra-Liberal Policies
by Paul Driessen October 20, 2015As Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition for 15 years, Tomas de Torquemada presided over the interrogation, torture, imprisonment and execution of thousands, for the “crimes” of religious heresy and pretended conversion to Christianity. Historian Sebastián de Olmedo titled him “the hammer of heretics.”
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FeaturedHealth CareLegal Affairs
Appeals Court Slightly Wounds Obamacare
by Ross Kaminsky July 24, 2014It’s too soon for champagne, but perhaps a beer is in order. In a 2-1 decision in the case of Halbig v. Burwell, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service cannot interpret the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as allowing subsidies for those Americans who purchase health insurance from the federal health insurance exchange known as Healthcare.gov. This is because the text of the law specifies that subsidies or tax credits are available for insurance purchased on state-created exchanges.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Rethinking Taxation: The Automated Payment Transaction Tax
by John Engle May 30, 2014The collecting of taxes is always a sticky subject for proponents of the free market to address. This is due to their natural tendency to spurn taxes in general. Yet, if change to the current unfair, prosperity-stifling tax regime is to occur, we need to offer a meaningful solution beyond the simple call to reduce taxes and spending (appealing as they might be). One solution that might go a long way toward improving how the government collects taxes is the Automated Payment Transaction Tax (APT tax).
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Unbelievable: More than 2,800 Internal Revenue Service workers who had been disciplined recently received millions of dollars in bonuses and time off as part of an employee recognition program, a new government audit shows.
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FeaturedPolitics
Even When Government Power Grabs Are Overturned – The Left Wins
by Seton Motley February 12, 2014The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
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FeaturedLegal AffairsPolitics
The Unceasing Political Thuggery of Obama’s Gangster Government
by Jim Lakely January 25, 2014The Obama administration has done its part fulfill the promise to “punish our enemies.” It is the only promise this president has kept, and is a grave danger to our liberty.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedHealth CarePolitics
New Obamacare ‘Fee’ Assails Small Business and Jobs
by Nancy Thorner January 2, 2014In case you’re feeling safe and secure from the reaches of ObamaCare, not so fast! Surprises will be in store for you on your insurance premiums and income tax bills.