FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...
Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there'…
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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Debunking Five Tax Day Myths
By Veronique de Rugy
Thursday, April 16 2026
Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the basis of several common myths. Here are the five most consequential. Myth No. 1: The Rich Don't Pay Their Fair Share This is the most repeated claim in American tax politics and one of the least supported by actual data. The top 1% of earners take in 22% of total income and pay 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earn about half the nation's income and pay 72% of its taxes. The bottom half of earners, collectively, pay roughly 3% of the tax…
 
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"Twenty-five years after 9/11, we are entering a new era of terrorism. In recent weeks, authorities have arrested individuals who pledged allegiance to ISIS and used artificial intelligence to help plan major attacks.Although those plots were thwarted, they reveal that terrorist organizations are now using AI in far more consequential ways. AI can help 'novices' to build chemical and biological weapons…[more]
  
 
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