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06/26/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

Join the tax revolution that allows you to control WHERE your tax dollars are spent

The U.S. federal tax code, spanning approximately 74,000 pages, is an embarrassment to common sense and a mockery of freedom. When the income tax began in 1913, it was roughly 400 pages long and had a top tax bracket of 7 percent. Today the income tax generates over 13 trillion annually and penalizes earners’ income […]

03/11/2017 / By Vicki Batts

Government trying to tax Kombucha as alcohol

Is the government really trying to tax kombucha? Those in the kombucha industry have had concerns about a federal smack-down for years. In 2015, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) even sent warning letters to a number of kombucha brewers to accuse them of producing beverages that supposedly exceeded the allowable alcohol […]

01/03/2017 / By Mary Wilder

Feds plan on raking in $213,300,000,000 in income taxes for just the first two months of 2017

The federal government’s obsession with taxing its citizens large sums of money is something that guarantees to be a consistent disaster for all of us. Instead of allowing the American people to spend the money they earn freely, the feds force all of us to pay for their bogus welfare programs and all of the […]

08/16/2016 / By Mary Wilder

‘Hero Tax’: American Olympians to pay thousands in taxes for winning medals

Michael Phelps is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. The most decorated Olympian in the history of the world, Phelps has won 28 medals in the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, all of those medals came with egregious taxes. No, seriously, the government has found a way to tax the equivalent of […]

04/20/2016 / By Mike Adams

Federal government set all-time record for number of new regulations in 2015

The federal government managed to achieve another record-breaking year in 2015 regarding the number of new regulations created. The final page count of the 2015 Federal Register reached 82,036 pages, more than last year’s 77,687 pages, and higher than the previous record-holding year of 2010. Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote: “Among […]

01/07/2016 / By Julian Kramer

Prominent tax protester Irwin Schiff died under federal custody

Irwin Schiff, posthumously referred to by Forbes as the “grandfather of the contemporary tax protest movement,” died in federal custody recently, shackled to a hospital bed and isolated from the rest of his family. Schiff is known to be one of the most popular tax protesters in the U.S., whose staunch opposition to federal income […]

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