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IRS Chief Reveals Hiring Plan for Armed Agents

IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel details plans to hire armed agents in criminal investigations division amid Republican concerns about gun-toting tax enforcers.
Free Enterprise

The Value of Free Enterprise Has Nothing to Do with Money or Wealth

There’s no doubt it’s been a rough few years for free enterprise in the United States. The financial crisis that began in 2007 is...
Washington Internal Review Service (IRS)

IRS Report Announces Major Changes on Who It Targets for Audits

The IRS is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars to audit wealthy taxpayers and corporations, according to the agency’s strategic operating plan.

John F. Kennedy’s 1963 State of the Union Address Asks For Tax Cut

President Kennedy delivers the State of the Union Address on January 14, 1963, at the Capitol Building. During his State of the Union Address...
Paycheck

“Paycheck Protection” Initiative

Special interest money easily overrides the ability of individual constituents when enacting laws, whether you live in California or many other states. In California,...

Fed Asks Americans for Feedback on a Central Bank Digital Currency—Here Are Some Responses

Americans are worried a U.S. CBDC could compromise essential freedoms, further centralizing monetary policy, and making country’s currency vulnerable to hacking.

Treasury Just Dropped a Financial Bomb, but Bidenomics Means the Worst Is Yet To...

The deficit for fiscal year 2023 was $1.7 trillion and Bidenomics means the worst is yet to come, and multi-trillion-dollar deficits are the new normal.
Hedge funds are destroying rural America.

Are hedge funds destroying rural America?

Are hedge funds destroying rural America? 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' investigates and discusses how tycoons like Paul Singer and his hedge fund are destroying rural...

A Step Backward for Economic Freedom in 2012

The world economy is in trouble, and governments are making things worse. Here's the story, right out of the pages of the 2012 Index...

The Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage

The National Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage Abstract President Biden and recent legislation have proposed more than doubling the federal minimum wage to $15, and...
House Committee on the BUDGET

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974: What Is It? Why Does It Matter?

What is the Impoundment Control Act? The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA) reasserted Congress’ power of the purse. Specifically, Title X...
Wage Growth

The Coordinated Attack on Your Money

The Biden admin seems determined to limit Americans’ monetary freedom by taxing it away, and manipulating and controlling how they store and spend their money.