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Quote of the Day: Taxpayer Privacy and IRS Abuse

At CFIF, the issue of improving taxpayer privacy and protection against persistent abuse by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) remains among our most important missions.  Among the abuses that we've chronicled is the case of convicted criminal Charles Littlejohn, who rejoined the IRS in 2017 with the specific purpose of illegally breaching and leaking the private tax returns of Donald Trump and other Americans to radical left-wing organizations like ProPublica.

In The Wall Street Journal this week, one of those victims speaks out on his own experience and the need for greater taxpayer protection against this recurring problem that should terrify all Americans of every political persuasion.  Ira Stoll, whose tax information was passed to ProPublica, even helpfully details how…[more]

May 29, 2024 • 11:28 AM

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Federal Reserve: Bidenomics Disproportionately Hurting Minorities
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 02 2023
As Joe Biden’s perplexed supporters struggle to grasp his increasingly grim reelection prospects, they should digest a new Federal Reserve report exposing how Biden’s policies have disproportionately punished a core constituency:  minority voters.   As it is, Biden possesses no margin for electoral error.  In the 2020 election, he won the White House on the basis of just 43,000 total votes in Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona.  If 22,000 of those voters had flipped to Donald Trump instead of Biden, Trump would’ve won reelection.   Since that time…
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"In one of the darkest hours in American history, after an ex-president for the first time was convicted in criminal court, Alvin Bragg could only smile and banter with laughing reporters. 'I did my job,' the Manhattan district attorney declared to a breezy, whimsical news conference that belied the gravity of having just secured 34 felony convictions that could send Donald Trump to prison for life…[more]
 
 
— John Soloman, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

Which would be the most useful for voters: a televised presidential debate that only includes Trump and Biden or one that adds Kennedy?