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MacDonald: IRS Rule Change Allows Pastors To Preach Politics Again

July 10, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Seventy years ago, a practice hundreds of years old was kneecapped just a little bit. Those fiery sermons of old, which spread the call for liberty and independence in the Colonial era, were stifled. Even after the IRS was invented out of whole cloth, pulpit pounders were free to talk about politicians and even endorse … Read more

Waste of the Day: “Free” Tax Returns Cost Too Much

May 14, 2025 Jeremy Portnoy

Topline: The IRS estimated in December 2024 that its new Direct File tax return system would cost the government $61.1 million for an estimated 2.3 million users, or about $27 per person. But the pilot program ended up costing about $238 per person who used the system to file their taxes, according to a report from the Treasury … Read more

A Hyper-efficient Agency That Costs Nothing To Operate

February 22, 2025 Ray Cardello

Lawrence O’Donnell is a bloviating idiot on MSNBC who makes comments and claims that he cannot substantiate or are just too absurd to have to fact-check. While talking about the IRS, he referred to it as one of the hyperefficient agencies of the federal government that makes money for the government and costs nothing to … Read more

Should Americans Stop Paying Their Federal Income Tax Until the Open Border Crisis Resolves?

March 18, 2024 Op-Ed

It is now common knowledge there is a wide spectrum of national security issues resulting from open borders and deliberate waves of mass migration. These issues have an economic and public safety impact on the USA and its taxpayers. The magnitude of this issue should bring into question the federal income tax.

Mitch McConnell And “Republicans” Like Him Are The Problem

November 2, 2023 Ed Mosca

The new Speaker of the House wants to (1) decouple aid to Israel from aid to Ukraine and (2) offset the aid to Israel by reducing spending. Guess who this makes irate. If you guessed Mitch McConnell … that’s a BINGO.

Looking for Some Free Tax Advice …

September 22, 2023 Steve MacDonald

My new “income” situation is poised to begin in a week, and there are a lot of questions that no amount of time poking around at the IRS website has managed to resolve. I’m still in the dark about my responsibility to help the IRS steal from me, and I’m looking for some free expert advice or, lacking that, a bit of direction.

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Biden Laptop Part 2: High Crimes & Misdemeanors

May 13, 2023 Aaron Warner

The Marco Polo (MP) report includes a timeline beginning detailing key activities with dates. These entries indicate the trail of evidence found on the laptop and corroborated either with official White House entries, newspaper articles and releases, as well as names of those involved in the criminal activity. Perhaps the most notable is the already … Read more

Let’s Replace Mother’s Day And Father’s Day With Thank The Government Day!

April 29, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The idea of sex and gender are toxic. Progressives, public schools, and pedophiles all think they know what is best for your kids. And if Moms and Dads are not to be held responsible as caregivers, why do we need Mother’s Day and Father’s Day? Maybe just opt out.

The Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act is Another Win for the Nullification Movement

April 19, 2023 Op-Ed

Would you be surprised to learn that the newest form of gun control has its roots in the IRS? Same. We weren’t either.

IRS: “If You Steal Property, You Must Report Its (Fair Market Value) In the Year You Steal It, …

March 15, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The IRS (THEIRS) has rules for everything, including your legal obligation to report property you have stolen as taxable income. Yes, you read that right. Thieves are required to report the fair market value of what they pilfer.

In 2022 Joe Biden’s IRS Decided to “Eat The Poor”

January 9, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The political left applauds class-warfare street theater. Mobs with mock guillotine chanting kill the rich or eat the rich. It justified their giving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) another 80 billion (with a ‘b’). More “b” oots on the ground to go after millionaires and “b” illionaires.

Here’s an Idea for the IRS – Stop Giving Rich People Tax Credits to Buy EV’s

January 6, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Electric Vehicles are expensive and not green, but an even bigger insult is the taxpayer-backed incentives to get one. EV buyers are high-income earners, which makes them high-income emitters looking to buy a bit of virtue signaling.

Republican Majority: Defund 87K IRS Agents, No Money For Outrageous Climate Schemes

November 25, 2022 Steve MacDonald

You do the best you can with what you’ve got until you can do better. But will they? I’m referring to the new slimmest of slim Republican majorities in the US House of Representatives. It’s all there is, but we’ve been here before with better numbers and been disappointed.

Those 87,000 Armed IRS Agents Are Actually Coming for Your Free Speech

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Ending Free Speech and the protections enshrined in the First Amendment is both a journey and a destination for the Left. Message control is essential to any authoritarian rule. You must make examples of anyone who dares to contradict the approved narratives.

Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?

August 23, 2022 Op-Ed

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”
-James Madison

Peel the Onion of Inflation Reduction

August 9, 2022 Ray Cardello

Bernie Sanders was honest, rare for a Senator, when he said this bill was not accurately named. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will do nothing to change the trajectory of our rising inflation. The most optimistic say this bill will reduce inflation by .25%, but over two years. So much for this inflation being transitory.

The Biden Administration Summed Up In One Short Video

August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The latest bit of pork and mirrors to come out of Congress is the Inflation Reduction Act, more appropriately named the IRS inflation Act. It will inflate the IRS, who will then Lois Lerner whomever the ‘crats (Demo or Bureau) decide has won the 5 AM raid Lottery

Quick Thought: So, Ukrainians Don’t Have to Pay Taxes on Captured Russian Tanks or Such?

May 14, 2022 Skip

Other than Letters of Marque in the US Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11: To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water”), I can’t remember the IRS putting out such a notice that if you take an enemy’s stuff off the battlefield, you don’t have to report it.

BLM Co-Founder Who Made Millions from Donors Thinks Reporting it to the IRS is … Racist?

April 14, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Remember when BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors dropped over a million on a mansion (in a mostly white neighborhood) in California. Well, her ‘Non-profit’ has raked in at least 90 million, and inquiring minds want to know what they did with the money.

So Kenneth Clark of the IRS is looking for information on Marilyn Todd?

January 26, 2022January 25, 2022 Skip

Well now, this is rather interesting! I found, in my INBOX, an email from a Kenneth Clark purporting to be from the Criminal Investigation Dept of the Internal Revenue Service. Topic? Marilyn Todd.