The IRS is expected to hire approximately 87,000 new agents. Supporters of the expansion say the IRS will use the enhanced enforcement capacity to target only “the rich.” However, it is not necessary to massively increase the IRS’s enforcement capacity just to go after “rich tax cheats.”
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There is no sign the U.S. government is going to get its spending problem under control. Last month, the feds ran the second-largest July budget deficit in history.
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Not surprisingly, both conservatives and progressives are refusing to confront the big elephant in the room — the one that is the root of the problem: out-of-control spending by the federal government, which has been going on a very long time.
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According to a study by the National Priorities Project at the progressive Institute for Policy Studies, the U.S. has spent $21 trillion on “militarization, surveillance, and repression,” in the years since 9/11.
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Earlier this month, the Senate voted 95-3 on a non-binding budget resolution to fund the hiring of 100,000 police officers. The vote doesn't authorize any funding but affirms the Senate's support for including the money in the budget.
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All of this federal money has a huge impact on local policing, creating, in effect, a national police force.
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Some state legislators have been introducing bills to ban their state from deploying National Guard units for undeclared foreign wars. To date, Defend the Guard bills have been introduced in some 30 states. PBS News Hour Special Correspondent Mike Cerre reported on this movement in July and spoke with Dan McKnight who is helping drive the initiative.
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As everyone knows, Republicans are as big spenders as Democrats are.
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The Republican “Party of Fiscal Responsibility” continues to rack up debt at a staggering rate. The U.S. Treasury plans to borrow another $425 billion in the final quarter of 2018, bringing total borrowing for the year to $1.34 trillion. On today’s Good Morning Liberty, Michael Boldin (follow) covers this, plus the fact that Social Security […]
Democrats and Republicans have both pushed to advance and preserve big-government socialist programs, even though only one of those teams seems to admit it.