President Joe Biden signaled on Wednesday that if he wins re-election this fall that Americans should expect to see an increase in their taxes, which comes as many are struggling from the high inflation rates that have defined Biden&#8217;s presidency.
&#8220;Donald Trump was very proud of his $2 trillion tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy and biggest corporations and exploded the federal debt,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1782904787966558608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in a post on X. &#8220;That tax cut is going to expire. If I’m re-elected, it’s going to stay expired.&#8221;
A <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/tax-calculator-tcja-expiration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Tax Foundation last month explained that Congress has less than two years to prevent &#8220;the vast majority&#8221; of Americans from getting hit with tax hikes.
The law that Biden wants to let expire is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, a law that simplified taxes and reduced taxes &#8220;across the income spectrum,&#8221; the report said.
&#8220;The TCJA reduced average tax rates for taxpayers at all income levels because it lowered marginal tax rates, widened tax brackets, doubled the child tax credit and zeroed out personal and dependent exemptions, nearly doubled the standard deduction, and limited several itemized deductions and the alternative minimum tax, among other changes,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Average rates declined across all income groups and have remained below their 2017 levels since.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s willingness to let the law expire flies in the face of his previous pledge to not raise taxes on those who earn less than $400,000 per year.
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&#8220;Biden just endorsed a $2 trillion tax hike on earners under $400k (breaking his no-new-taxes pledge for such earners), and and endorsed cutting the child credit down to $1,000,&#8221; said Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl. &#8220;The White House wants it every way on the TCJA: 1) They demand to end the &#8216;Trump tax cuts&#8217; &#8211; and write a budget claiming all the deficit savings from full expiration, but then also: 2) Pledge to extend for the bottom 98%, which costs $2 trillion over the decade.&#8221;

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> is set to go on trial on three felony gun charges on June 3 — just 17 days prior to the start of his already-scheduled trial for nine tax charges in California.
Delaware U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika ruled on Wednesday that the trial could start on June 3 despite the proximity of the dates, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN reported</a>, and both trials were scheduled in the aftermath of a failed plea agreement — which was initially supposed to include both the tax charges and the gun charges.
In Delaware, the younger Biden faces three gun-related charges, including unlawfully purchasing a revolver while using illicit drugs, allegedly lying on federal forms about his drug use when he bought the weapon. Prosecutors say that Biden owned the firearm in question — a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver that he purchased in October of 2018 — for approximately 11 days.
Biden&#8217;s attorneys have filed a number of motions claiming that the plea agreement — which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-plea-deal-taxes-gun-drugs-690d38f1ffae4dfce2c171d21e7d3594" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell apart last summer</a> — is still valid and covers the gun charges. Judge Noreika said during Wednesday&#8217;s status hearing that she has been &#8220;working through the motions,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I haven’t completely figured out what I’m going to do with all of them.&#8221;
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According to CNN&#8217;s report, both parties believe the gun trial could wrap up in under a week — with the prosecution taking several days and the defense another two days.
Biden&#8217;s second trial is scheduled to begin on June 20, and covers nine tax-related charges amounting to what CNN referred to as &#8220;an alleged conspiracy across several years to avoid paying over $1 million in taxes.&#8221;
The charges in both cases were brought by Special Counsel David Weiss, who was appointed in August of 2023 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and charged with overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden.

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During President Biden’s State of the Union, he will <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-call-state-union-business-tax-hikes-middle-107877505">unveil</a> his plan to raise the minimum corporate tax by a whopping 40% as well as implement a tax on the rich that would be at least 25%.
Biden would raise the corporate tax rate to 28% and the corporate minimum tax to 21%. Currently, the minimum corporate tax rate <a href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-clarifies-rules-for-new-corporate-alternative-minimum-tax">stands at 15%</a> after Biden implemented that earlier in his presidency. Biden would also refuse companies tax deductions for employees making over $1 million. “The President is proposing to levy a 25 percent minimum tax on the wealthiest 0.01 percent, those with wealth of more than $100 million,” the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/07/fact-sheet-president-biden-is-fighting-to-reduce-the-deficit-cut-taxes-for-working-families-and-invest-in-america-by-making-big-corporations-and-the-wealthy-pay-their-fair-share/#:~:text=President%20Biden%27s%20tax%20plan%20would,corporate%20minimum%20tax%20to%2021%25." target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
Former President Trump, the presumptive GOP 2024 presidential nominee, would reportedly make the tax cuts he implemented in his first term – which reduced corporate taxes from 35% to 21% —  permanent.
During Trump’s administration, the four quarters preceding January 2019 saw real gross domestic product <a href="https://www.heritage.org/international-economies/commentary/under-trump-us-economic-freedom-rises-significantly">soar</a> more than 3 percent, the best since the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency 13 years before.
Wharton Business School finance professor Joao Gomes, who was awarded the University of Pennsylvania’s Marshall Blume Prize in 2018, recently warned that the nation’s massive $34 trillion debt could presage an economic meltdown in 2025.
“As we discuss promises about ‘what we’re going to do with tax and programs,’ it’s going to be important to put it in the context of ‘Can we afford that?’” Gomes told <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/03/03/what-is-current-national-debt-how-can-us-get-out/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fortune</a>. “It’s a really obvious moment in history for us to say: ‘Okay, what are our choices; what can we feasibly do; who has the better plan?’ I suspect neither party is interested in that, and it might all be pushed under the rug.”
“Toward the latter part of the decade we will have to deal with this,” he continued. “It could derail the next administration, frankly. If they come up with plans for large tax cuts or another big fiscal stimulus, the markets could rebel. Interest rates could just spike right there, and we would have a crisis in 2025. It could very well happen. I’m very confident by the end of the decade one way or another, we will be there.”
“The most important thing about debt for people to keep in mind is you need somebody to buy it. We used to be able to count on China, Japanese investors, the Fed to [buy the debt]. All those players are slowly going away and are actually now selling. &#8230; If at some moment these folks that have so far been happy to buy government debt from major economies decide, ‘You know what, I’m not too sure if this is a good investment anymore. I’m going to ask for a higher interest rate to be persuaded to hold this,’ then we could have a real accident on our hands,” Gomes stated.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) is pressing a taxpayer-funded television service over the existence of a “diversity” fund that appears to discriminate against white filmmakers and violate the Civil Rights Act, according to a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/2024.02.01-Letter-to-ITVS-re-Diversity-Development-Fund-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> obtained by The Daily Wire. 
On Thursday, Cruz questioned the Independent Television Service (ITVS), a congressionally chartered production service funded by taxpayers, over its Diversity Development Fund, a <a href="https://itvs.org/funding/diversity-development-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research and development scholarship</a> of up to $35,000 that is available exclusively for “directors of color.” In a letter to ITVS CEO Carrie Lozano, Cruz said that the organization should make the fund available to applicants of all races and said that the organization appears to be biased toward liberal filmmakers. 
“Because white filmmakers are facially ineligible for this seed money, the fund runs afoul of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866,&#8221; Cruz wrote. &#8220;I therefore urge you to remove race as an eligibility criterion for the Diversity Development Fund. ITVS can surely pursue its mandate to ‘expand the diversity and innovativeness’ of public programming without violating the law.&#8221;
ITVS <a href="https://cpb.org/programs/ITVS-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gets</a> about $17 million per year in taxpayer funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. According to ITVS, the diversity fund <a href="https://archive.ph/g79rw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been</a> used to make 156 films and is only eligible for filmmakers who “identify as a person of color.” 
Cruz, the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, said that the diversity fund was “actively flouting” federal law because Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits federal dollars from going toward programs or activities that discriminate on the basis of race. The Texas Republican asked ITVS to provide full details on how much money had been allocated to the Diversity Development Fund and details on the recipients of the fund and their projects. 
Cruz said that the fund is not only discriminatory, but also appears to be pushing partisan politics with government money.
“As if this blatant violation of the law were not concerning enough, ITVS appears to almost exclusively fund documentaries from a liberal viewpoint, and may be discriminating against certain filmmakers based on political ideology,&#8221; Cruz told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I have no doubt this organization could expand the ‘diversity and innovativeness’ of public programming without violating the law, and I am hopeful ITVS will commit to removing race as an eligibility criterion for the Diversity Development Fund.&#8221;
Cruz highlighted how ITVS brags on its website about encouraging political activism. &#8220;The ITVS website features an &#8216;Impact&#8217; page demonstrating how its documentaries &#8216;inspir[e] audiences to take action&#8217; on politically charged issues like criminal justice reform. These documentaries overwhelmingly reflect a liberal worldview,&#8221; Cruz wrote in the letter.
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One documentary funded by ITVS is “Racist Trees,” which was about the removal of trees from an area in Palm Beach, California, because the trees were “an enduring symbol of racism.” Another documentary, “Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go,” examines one woman’s “search of a cure for her crippling climate anxiety in a deeply personal documentary about therapy and existential threat.” Another documentary <a href="https://itvs.org/films/almost-american/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">takes aim</a> at the &#8220;anti-immigration agenda&#8221; in Washington, D.C. while one called &#8220;Breaking the Blue Wall&#8221; <a href="https://itvs.org/films/breaking-the-blue-wall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenges</a> Maryland protections for police officers. 
&#8220;Yet ITVS funds hardly any documentaries from a conservative perspective. A public organization that costs American taxpayers $17 million a year should not be a vehicle for left-wing agitprop,&#8221; Cruz wrote.
ITVS did not immediately return a request for comment on the diversity fund.

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A former IRS contractor who leaked the tax returns of several wealthy and powerful individuals, including former President Donald Trump, was sentenced to five years in prison this week.
The U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-announces-criminal-charges-against-man-for-allegedly-stealing-trump-tax-info-leaking-it-to-media">announced</a> criminal charges last September against 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn, who was a contractor with the IRS from 2018 to 2020. Littlejohn pled guilty in October 2023 to unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information.
As a government contractor, Littlejohn &#8220;stole&#8221; Trump&#8217;s tax return information, the DOJ said on Monday, adding that he took steps to conceal his activities so he wouldn&#8217;t get caught. He also stole the tax return information of thousands of America&#8217;s wealthiest individuals, including figures like Jeff Bezos.
Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden nominee, imposed the maximum sentence on Littlejohn in federal court and compared him to those who participated in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“When you target the sitting president of the United States, you’re targeting the office and when you’re targeting the office of the president of the United States, you’re targeting democracy — you’re targeting our constitutional system of government,” she said, adding: “It cannot be open season on our elected officials — it just can’t.”
Acting Inspector General Heather Hill of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said that the sentence should &#8220;serve as a warning to anyone who is considering emulating Mr. Littlejohn’s actions.&#8221;
&#8220;TIGTA relentlessly investigates individuals who illicitly access and disclose taxpayer information, regardless of their personal motivation,&#8221; she added. &#8220;TIGTA appreciates the commitment of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in ensuring those who abuse their positions of public trust are held accountable for their actions.&#8221;

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Around a century ago, the Spanish Flu <a href="https://www.paho.org/en/who-we-are/history-paho/purple-death-great-flu-1918" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> 700,000 people in this country. In terms of casualty count, that pandemic was deadlier than both World Wars, plus the wars in Vietnam and Korea, combined. The average life expectancy in this country <a href="https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2018/05/1918-flu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> by 12 years virtually overnight. Many of the dead were young people.
And yet, as the pandemic subsided, according to historians who have extensively documented this whole episode, life <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/01/1918-flu-pandemic-end/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned to normal</a> in just a couple of years. Society didn&#8217;t reorder itself. There were no permanent changes to election law. Mail-in balloting didn&#8217;t become the norm. Clusters of effete Leftists in San Francisco and Portland didn&#8217;t insist on wearing masks for years afterwards. Things progressed. People moved on.
Fast forward a century to the post-COVID era and, as you may have noticed, the exact opposite happened. Instead of moving on, elected officials have opted to indefinitely extend COVID policies, wherever possible. Some of these efforts are obvious. I just alluded to a few of them. But some of these efforts are not so obvious. In fact they&#8217;ve gotten basically no major media coverage whatsoever, even though they could affect your children in profound ways.
In particular, with COVID as the pretext initially, there&#8217;s now a large-scale effort underway to transform schools into mini-hospitals, all for the benefit of a handful of startups that are funded out of Silicon Valley. You thought the point of school was to provide an education for your child, but that&#8217;s not the case anymore. Now the point is to turn students into patients, in order to enrich investors in California. School is now, supposedly, a one-stop shop for all your children&#8217;s educational and medical and psychiatric needs.
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According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-failed-promise-of-online-mental-health-treatment-11671390353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> from the Kaiser Family Foundation, prior to COVID, there were, &#8220;essentially zero&#8221; Telehealth appointments for mental-health and substance-related issues. You could look throughout the entire country, and you&#8217;d find that it&#8217;s just not something that was done. Beginning around March of 2021, though, everything changed. That year, Telehealth technology exploded in popularity. It was used for more than one-third of all outpatient visits for these symptoms. Telehealth went from something no one used, to something more than 33 percent of patients nationwide were participating in. Nothing like that has ever happened before.
Many of these new patients were students, in grades K through 12. As the Associated Press reports this week, &#8220;Now at least 16 of the 20 largest U.S. public school districts are offering online therapy sessions to reach millions of students. &#8230; In those districts alone, schools have signed provider contracts worth more than $70 million.&#8221;
Have you heard about that? Unless you read the AP, probably not. You were never asked to vote on this. It just happened, whether you like it or not. One of the largest Telehealth providers in schools today is called &#8220;Hazel Health.&#8221; They&#8217;re active in more than 150 school districts, across 15 states. Just this year, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-counseling-school-hazel-bd7d650184decd94d4570e9841f1cedb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>, Hazel signed a $24 million contract with Los Angeles County to provide &#8220;tele-therapy&#8221; to more than a million students. Hazel has also signed <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/telehealth/hazel-health-nabs-51m-fund-school-based-physical-mental-health-expands-houston-hawaii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lucrative deals</a> in Hawaii, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Washington, Georgia. A lot of taxpayer money is being spent, all of a sudden, on in-school therapy for kids. Tens of millions more dollars spent by the school system, to go along with the billions that it wastes. 
But the bigger issue, beyond the cost of all of this, is that schools shouldn&#8217;t be handling any of it in the first place. This is maybe the most egregious example of &#8220;mission creep&#8221; in modern history. It should go without saying that schools are not hospitals and they’re not mental health facilities. Outside of dealing with minor injuries — which school nurses can handle, and have always been able to handle — schools should not be offering full-service medical care, least of all psychiatric care. They certainly shouldn&#8217;t be promoting mental health treatments via the Internet. 
This is the biggest problem, and the thing we should all be stopping to think about. Why are schools spending tens of millions of dollars to offer therapy to kids? 
It used to be — back in my day — that the school guidance counselor was really just the school&#8217;s version of an HR rep for the students. You’d talk to the guidance counselor if you have some kind of issue with another student, or a teacher, or whatever. She would give you a sticker or a coloring book and send you on your way. The guidance counselor’s role was relatively narrow. 
But now, increasingly, schools are taking it upon themselves to play shrink. They&#8217;re referring children to Zoom calls with anonymous doctors for talk therapy. And parents often have no idea what exactly is being said in these sessions. It&#8217;s true that parents have to consent to these Telehealth providers seeing their children, but beyond that, the whole point of the practice is that parents don&#8217;t have to come and get their kids. Parents can stay at their jobs. Meanwhile, a Telehealth provider is free to, say, affirm a child&#8217;s gender delusions, or misdiagnosis a serious illness.
There are a lot of issues here. One — and not even the biggest one — is the quality of care kids will receive. Time Magazine looked into this back in November of 2022. They <a href="https://time.com/6225361/telehealth-startups-cerebral-done-ahead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time that, 
<blockquote>TIME interviewed six mental-health professionals who formerly worked for telepsych or substance-treatment startups, some of whom asked to remain anonymous because they still work in mental-health care. Regardless of their employer, they had similar complaints: appointments were too short to properly treat and assess patients; clinicians were overworked; and policies around prescribing drugs and treating complex cases often weren’t rigorous enough.</blockquote>
TIME also <a href="https://time.com/6225361/telehealth-startups-cerebral-done-ahead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that, 
<blockquote>Federal investigators are probing prescription practices at Done and Cerebral, a popular startup that offers virtual therapy and medication management for depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and substance-use disorders for as little as $99 per month—and that some former employees have said overprescribes stimulants for ADHD. In May, pharmacy giants including CVS and Walmart stopped filling controlled-substance prescriptions from Cerebral and Done clinicians.</blockquote>
For its part, The Wall Street Journal found that, 
<blockquote>Done, run by a former Facebook product manager with no medical training, also advertises heavily on social media. Done’s clinicians continue to prescribe stimulants, sometimes after appointments as short as 10 minutes.</blockquote>
More broadly, when people go to Telehealth providers, they&#8217;re often being misdiagnosed. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic looked at around 2,400 patients who underwent a video Telehealth consultation, followed by an in-person visit for the same problem. They <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2795871">found</a> that in 13 percent of cases, the diagnosis didn&#8217;t match up. That might not seem like a lot — and indeed, the Mayo Clinic touts this as a positive number. But it&#8217;s not. It means that out of just 2,400 people, more than 300 of them were misdiagnosed. That, it would seem to me, is obviously a major problem.
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It&#8217;s no secret why these businesses have appeared out of nowhere, and immediately acquired an enormous amount of funding. Children and young adults are experiencing extraordinarily high levels of mental distress in this country. This year alone, more than 60 percent of teenage girls reported feeling persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. The director of the CDC&#8217;s school health division, Kathleen Ethier, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/education-health-pandemics-teens-cd01cd672539d6a3dbada46bfa47203a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that in 30 years of collecting data on depression among young people, &#8220;we&#8217;ve never seen this kind of devastating, consistent findings.&#8221;
When you look at the long-term data, you can see why the CDC is saying that. According to a recent report in Education Week, CDC data <a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/why-america-has-a-youth-mental-health-crisis-and-how-schools-can-help/2023/10">shows</a> that, 
<blockquote>Forty-two percent of high school students in 2021 reported feeling so sad or hopeless for at least two consecutive weeks in the previous year that they stopped engaging in their usual activities, up from 26 percent in 2009.</blockquote>
So children are more depressed than they&#8217;ve been in a very long time. And now they&#8217;re being &#8220;treated&#8221; with a brand-new form of &#8220;Telehealth talk therapy” — therapy offered in school — even though there&#8217;s very little evidence that talk therapy actually accomplishes anything. Just this year, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/does-therapy-work.html">reported</a> that a recent meta-analysis found that, &#8220;more than half of the patients receiving therapy [for depression] had little or no benefit.&#8221; A 2022 paper out of Germany, meanwhile, determined that, “After more than half a century of research” and “millions of invested funds,&#8221; the positive impact of therapy and medication was, “limited.”
In other words, a lot of people relied on therapy to fix their problems, and therapy did absolutely nothing for them. In fact, especially if they were counting on this therapy to fix their issues, it may have made their mental problems even worse. That&#8217;s the very thin evidence that supports in-person talk therapy. The evidence supporting Zoom therapy is even more scant. There&#8217;s really no reason to think that it helps at all. 
So this is another area where we are essentially conducting psychological experiments on children. “Hey let’s see what happens when we have kids sit in therapy sessions with some random person over Zoom! Maybe it will help them, maybe it will screw them up more. Let’s find out!” There’s a lot of this kind of thing going around.
Across the country, many school districts, and many parents, are allowing this to take place. And they&#8217;re doing it, ostensibly, because of the widely reported “mental health crisis” with our kids. But the problem is that there&#8217;s a lot of confusion about the cause of this crisis. Usually the problem is blamed on an epidemic of “bullying.&#8221; I mentioned the AP article about the, as they put it, “booming business of online therapy,” which schools are now turning to, and spending tens of millions of dollars on. That article starts with an anecdote about a young girl who was bullied in school, called fat and ugly, and so she is now in online therapy with whatever therapist her school connected her with. The obvious implication is that this is why we need our schools to increasingly provide psychiatric care to kids. Because of all the bullying that goes on.
But kids have always been bullied. Arguably, if you&#8217;ve ever listened to your parents or grandparents talk about their public school horror stories, bullying used to be considerably worse than it is these days. And back then, kids weren’t going to therapy over it. They certainly weren’t going to therapy at school. They also generally weren’t psychologically devastated by the bullying to the same degree that kids today are. Because it is probably true that kids today are more anxious, confused, and depressed than ever before. Childhood suicide used to be basically unheard of. Now it&#8217;s a growing epidemic. So something is going on here. There is a major problem. And the schools have come up with all kinds of schemes to allegedly help solve it, which now includes putting millions of kids in therapy during school hours.
But it’s not helping, and it won’t, because the people addressing the mental health crisis don’t understand where it comes from. Here’s where it comes from: What lies behind it is a deliberate effort to psychologically and spiritually destabilize our children. This is an effort that&#8217;s been undertaken in large part by the school system itself, which now pretends that it wants to solve the problem that it is actively helping to create. Our children are lost, untethered, vulnerable. That’s why they’re so incapable of coping with the kinds of challenges that kids in the past handled relatively easily. It’s because of the conditioning they’ve been subjected to.
Kids are indoctrinated into a worldview where reality is uncertain, truth doesn&#8217;t exist, their own biological identity is fluid and subject to change, their country is evil, their ancestors were bigoted troglodytes. They&#8217;re taught to be suspicious of their own families and their parents. For years, they were told to stay inside, and not talk to anyone, because they might spread a virus that had a minuscule chance of causing them any harm whatsoever. If they&#8217;re white, they are taught to hate their own race. If male, to hate their own sex. They are severed from all anchors of meaning and purpose, and then we look around and wonder why they&#8217;re all so depressed. Then we send them to therapists who invariably will enforce the indoctrination that put them in this state of psychological distress in the first place.
But schools aren&#8217;t even doing that, really. They&#8217;re not bothering to refer kids to the psychiatrist&#8217;s office. Now schools are simply putting iPads in front of childrens&#8217; faces, and connecting them with TikTok nurses who will affirm every delusion they have. They&#8217;re doing this allegedly to save parents some time, but in reality it&#8217;s about making a few Big Tech startups a lot of money, and about solidifying the indoctrination they’re getting in school.
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And so far, parents are going along with it.
In school districts all over the country, they&#8217;re handing their kids over to Zoom shrinks while they stay at work. All the while, they&#8217;ll just have to hope that their children don&#8217;t get the wrong diagnosis, or receive a prescription for some drug they don&#8217;t need, or end up with more mental problems than they already had. 
We&#8217;re told this is the future of medicine. And whether you like it or not, whether you consented to it or not, it&#8217;s probably on its way to your child&#8217;s school.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal Revenue Service</a> (IRS) estimates that the gross tax gap amounts to at least $688 billion, resulting from Americans’ non-filing, underpaying, and underreporting of their taxes.
In a Thursday press release, the IRS <a href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-updates-tax-gap-projections-for-2020-2021-projected-annual-gap-rises-to-688-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterized</a> the tax gap increase as “a significant jump” from previous years’ estimates, though noncompliance was at around 15 percent. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said that the agency would apply Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds into compliance efforts, namely targeting those with higher incomes and wealth.
“With the help of Inflation Reduction Act funding, we are adding focus and resources to areas of compliance concern, including high-income and high-wealth individuals, partnerships and corporations,” said Werfel. “These steps are urgent in many ways, including adding more fairness to the tax system, protecting those who pay their taxes and working to combat the tax gap.”
Last month, the IRS <a href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-to-establish-special-pass-through-organization-to-help-with-high-income-compliance-efforts-new-workgroup-to-blend-current-employees-and-new-hires-to-focus-on-complex-partnerships-other-key-areas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would establish a 3,700-member special pass-through organization within its Large Business and International (LB&amp;I) Division to assist in raising high-income compliance. The newest LB&amp;I Division followed an earlier <a href="https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-sweeping-effort-to-restore-fairness-to-tax-system-with-inflation-reduction-act-funding-new-compliance-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> pledging to “shift attention to [the] wealthy from working-class taxpayers” using an Artificial Intelligence-bolstered detection system.
The IRS promised to ensure audit rates wouldn’t increase for those earning less than $400,000 annually and additional safeguards for those claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit. It also promised to began investigations into 75 of the largest industry partnerships in the nation by the end of the month.
Earlier this week, the IRS <a href="https://microsoft.gcs-web.com/node/31951/html%23d530324dex991.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Microsoft it owed $28.9 billion in tax for 2004 to 2013, plus penalties and interest. Microsoft responded that it disagreed with the IRS determination, and that it has paid over $67 billion in taxes since 2004. Microsoft also said its taxes paid under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would decrease the IRS estimation by up to $10 billion.
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In the largest audit in U.S. history, the IRS rejected Microsoft’s attempts to channel profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico that burned Windows software onto CDs. <a href="https://t.co/Kr460cDtnf">https://t.co/Kr460cDtnf</a>
&mdash; ProPublica (@propublica) <a href="https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1712845812592410674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to the IRS, one percent in compliance equals about $46 billion in collections. That 15 percent noncompliance, therefore, amounts to about $688 billion.
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Last year’s compliance efforts yielded over $4.9 trillion in taxes, penalties, interest, and user fees.
The IRS noted in Thursday’s announcement that it anticipated its enforcement efforts and taxpayers’ late payments to shrink the tax gap by $63 billion, achieving 86.3 percent compliance. The projected share of taxes paid between 2014-2016 was 87 percent. The IRS stated that the decline in compliance was due to changes in types of income and how that income is reported, not a shift in compliance behavior.
Taxes owed due to nonfiling increased from $41 billion in 2017-2019 to $77 billion in 2021. Taxes owed due to underreporting increased from $445 billion in 2017-2019 to $542 billion in 2021. Taxes owed due to underpayment increased from $64 billion in 2017-2019 to $68 billion in 2021.
However, the IRS noted that noncompliance may be greater than their estimates. The agency cited their shortcomings in oversight on pandemic credits, offshore activities, digital assets, cryptocurrency, corporate income tax, and income from flow-through entities and illegal activities as factors that likely rendered their $688 billion figure too low.
The IRS also announced that the estimate was the first given for a single tax year, breaking away from prior practice of issuing biennial tax gap projections.
Tax gap estimates and projections rely on compliance behavior derived from the most recent completed audits. This latest estimate was gleaned from the 2014-2016 tax years’ audits. The IRS estimated the tax liability to have increased by 38 percent from those years to 2021.

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Hollywood star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mario-lopez-dangerous-children-choose-their-gender-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mario Lopez</a> torched California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders over what&#8217;s being called the &#8220;Skittles ban&#8221; — which would prohibit the sale of any candy in California that&#8217;s made with red dye No. 3 — amid the state&#8217;s persistent rise in crime and homelessness.
The 50-year-old actor posted on Monday on <a href="https://twitter.com/mariolopezviva/status/1711565605646770412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> in response to a headline that read, &#8220;California becomes the first U.S. state to ban Skittles and 12,000 additional products for cancer-causing additives&#8221; after Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act, Assembly <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill 418</a>.
&#8220;Crime is through the roof, worst drug epidemic ever &amp; homelessness at an all time high in CA… Let&#8217;s focus on Skittles,&#8221; Lopez wrote.
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Crime is through the roof, worst drug epidemic ever &amp; homelessness at an all time high in CA… Let’s focus on Skittles <a href="https://t.co/ohWQcUcQjf">pic.twitter.com/ohWQcUcQjf</a>
&mdash; Mario Lopez (@mariolopezviva) <a href="https://twitter.com/mariolopezviva/status/1711565605646770412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The bill will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/health/california-governor-bans-red-dye-no-3-wellness/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibit</a> the sale, distribution, or manufacture of food products containing red dye No. 3, brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, and propylparaben — ingredients that can be <a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/10/california-first-state-enact-ban-four-harmful-chemicals-food" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> in candy, cereal, soda, and other processed food sold and produced in the state.
The chair of the state Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, Jesse Gabriel, praised the move by the governor.
&#8220;The Governor’s signature today represents a huge step forward in our effort to protect children and families in California from dangerous and toxic chemicals in our food supply,&#8221; <a href="https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/10/california-first-state-enact-ban-four-harmful-chemicals-food" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriel</a> said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable that the U.S. is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to food safety,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This bill will not ban any foods or products – it simply will require food companies to make minor modifications to their recipes and switch to the safer alternative ingredients that they already use in Europe and so many other places around the globe.&#8221;
Red dye No. 3 is used in candies like Skittles, Trolli gummies, and Nerds, along with instant rice and potato products, boxed cake mixes, and some protein shakes, according to the <a href="https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ingredients/19151-RED3/search/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental Working Group&#8217;s Eat Well Guide</a>.
Newsom&#8217;s ban mimics Europe&#8217;s, where these four chemicals, &#8220;due to scientific studies that have demonstrated significant public health harms, including increased risk of cancer, behavioral issues in children, harm to the reproductive system, and damage to the immune system,&#8221; are already banned. The California &#8220;Skittles ban&#8221; will not be implemented until 2027.
In the last year, there&#8217;s been a massive exodus out of the state by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-is-not-america-why-so-many-celebrities-are-leaving-los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrities</a> and residents due to skyrocketing crime, high taxes, and massive homelessness as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Golden State</a> continues to fall into chaos under Newsom.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/superman-actor-dean-cain-admits-he-never-thought-hed-leave-ca-but-says-government-has-ruined-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Superman&#8217; Actor Dean Cain Admits He Never Thought He&#8217;d Leave CA, But Says Government Has Ruined It</a>

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Former &#8220;Superman&#8221; actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dean-cain-shares-his-journey-from-superman-to-unabashed-patriot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dean Cain</a> admitted he never thought he would leave the state of California or his &#8220;forever home,&#8221; but said the &#8220;most ridiculous large government,&#8221; &#8220;incredible taxation,&#8221; and more in the state has ruined it.
The 57-year-old actor opened up about his decision to moved out of his home in Malibu in May and relocate to Las Vegas, asking if leaders were trying to &#8220;tax people&#8221; out of the state, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dean-cain-says-had-get-out-california-land-of-ridiculousness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported.
&#8220;My home in Malibu was going to be my forever home,&#8221; Cain told the outlet. &#8220;That was where I was going to die, and everything was going to be just fine. You can&#8217;t beat the weather. And I had a lovely house with the most incredible views. Governments can ruin an area.&#8221;
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&#8220;And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in California,&#8221; he added. &#8220;What is happening under [Democratic Governor] Gavin Newsom and the Democratic leadership in the House, in Congress, people I did not vote for. People did in California vote for it. I didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;But it&#8217;s the most ridiculous large government, incredible taxation, horrible regulations for business. Very anti-business,&#8221; Cain continued. &#8220;The personal income tax is 13, the highest levels, 13, 13.2, whatever it happens to be. You&#8217;re getting hit with the highest gas tax in the nation. Sales tax, food tax, energy tax, natural gas tax. It&#8217;s as though they&#8217;re trying to tax people out of there.&#8221;
The &#8220;Out of Time&#8221; star joins other actors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-is-not-america-why-so-many-celebrities-are-leaving-los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exiting the state</a> like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-wahlberg-ditching-hollywood-for-nevada-gave-his-kids-the-chance-to-thrive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Wahlberg</a>, who also recently picked up his whole family and left California for Nevada.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really giving the kids a chance to thrive,&#8221; the 52-year-old actor previously told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mark-wahlberg-moved-out-hollywood-could-give-children-chance-thrive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a> about moving his family to Las Vegas.
&#8220;It just has the best of both worlds,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I know a lot of people, when they think Las Vegas, they think the Strip. But just about 15, 20 minutes away, there&#8217;s a whole lot of other amazing areas that are all about family and community.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/superman-dean-cain-says-despite-loving-california-terrible-policies-have-forced-him-to-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dean Cain Says Despite Loving California, &#8216;Terrible&#8217; Policies Have Forced Him To Leave</a>

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The U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> announced criminal charges on Friday against a contractor with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who is accused of stealing the tax returns of former President Donald Trump and distributing the material to the media.
Federal law enforcement officials announced the charges against 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn, who was a contractor with the IRS from 2018 to 2020. The company that Littlejohn was working for was not identified and it was not clear &#8220;why a contractor had access to sensitive taxpayer information that is supposed to be protected by numerous legal and procedural safeguards,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/irs-contractor-charged-with-leaking-tax-returns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;While Defendant was working on an IRS contract, he stole tax returns and return information associated with Public Official A and thousands of the nation&#8217;s wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years,&#8221; court documents <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24000154/irs-contractor-charges.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a>. &#8220;He thereafter disclosed the tax information associated with Public Official A to News Organization 1 and the other tax information to News Organization 2. Both news organizations published numerous articles describing the tax information they obtained from the Defendant.&#8221;
While the identity of Public Official A is not mentioned in the court documents, numerous publications <a href="https://apnews.com/article/leak-tax-return-irs-charges-213909430bcaf8b50600d67bfe45f89a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Trump is the figure in question.
The two news organizations, which were also not mentioned in the charging documents, were The New York Times and ProPublica, according to various media <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/irs-contractor-trump-taxes/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>. The news organizations have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Littlejohn was charged with one count of Disclosure of Tax Return and Return Information and faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
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The charging documents <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24000154/irs-contractor-charges.pdf">said</a> that if Littlejohn is convicted, &#8220;all property he has used in violating the provisions of the internal revenue laws is subject to forfeiture.&#8221;

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Leftist allies of Chicago&#8217;s new Mayor Brandon Johnson have proposed a budget plan that would tax the rich and businesses, and would effectively defund police in a city already nearly crippled by crime.
The <a href="https://acrecampaigns.org/research_post/first-we-get-the-money/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget plan</a> was proposed by ACRE, the Action Center on Race and the Economy, in conjunction with the People&#8217;s Unity Platform and is titled &#8220;$12 Billion for a Just Chicago.&#8221; The first page begins with step one of the plan: &#8220;First we get the money.&#8221;
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The plan also calls for eliminating all current vacant positions at the Chicago Police Department AND cutting the CPD budget by 9%.
&mdash; Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1658850985874190346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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One of the plan&#8217;s authors, Saqib Bhatti, was a member of Johnson&#8217;s transition team.
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Big congratulations to ACRE&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/snbhatti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@snbhatti</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/FREEwrites_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FREEwrites_</a> for being named to two transition subcommittees for mayor-elect Brandon Johnson &amp; working toward a stronger, more equitable, safer Chicago. <a href="https://t.co/oZPZr0tUFI">https://t.co/oZPZr0tUFI</a>
&mdash; ACRE (@ACREcampaigns) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACREcampaigns/status/1653044102940819459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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ACRE touted the budget plan in a tweet claiming it would &#8220;reimagine everything in the city from policing to climate justice, housing &amp; more.&#8221;
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🚨🚨🚨 New report alert! 🚨🚨🚨
Learn how a moral budget for Chicago would reimagine everything in the city from policing to climate justice, housing &amp; more: <a href="https://t.co/o9Q4pWm11R">https://t.co/o9Q4pWm11R</a> <a href="https://t.co/fW7zCn0BS5">pic.twitter.com/fW7zCn0BS5</a>
&mdash; ACRE (@ACREcampaigns) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACREcampaigns/status/1658865069222944774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://acrecampaigns.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/First-We-Get-the-Money.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget plan</a> calls for $12 billion in new taxes — which would reportedly come in part from reducing the Chicago Police Department <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/01/02/sparing-residents-tax-hikes-months-election-chicago-s-2023-budget-takes-effect#:~:text=The%20Chicago%20Police%20Department%27s%20budget,a%20total%20of%20%241.94%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">budget</a> ($1.94 billion in 2023) by 9%, or approximately $175 million. The city would also eliminate all current police department vacancies – which, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/8/31/23331411/cpd-chicago-police-vacancies-detectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in August of 2022</a>, amounted to over 900 patrol officer vacancies and over 100 detective vacancies.
Corporations — or any business with at least 50 employees — would face a &#8220;head tax&#8221; of $33 per employee, which the report estimated would bring in $106 million in new revenue. Anyone making more than $100,000 would face an additional 3.5% income tax – totaling approximately $1.2 billion. The city&#8217;s top 10% of earners would also get hit with a .4% wealth tax – amounting to $960 million annually.
A real estate transfer tax on transactions of over $1 million — which the report states would generate $1.63 million in revenue — would be used to fund housing projects that the report claims would &#8220;eliminate homelessness.&#8221;
The plan also demanded that Chicago refuse to use any federal money to fund law enforcement or Wall Street interests, arguing that investing that money in public housing would contribute more to community safety.
The conclusion, according to ACRE, was that the city&#8217;s budget had to be approached from a morality standpoint – and that previous budgets had not done so to their satisfaction.
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&#8220;A city budget is a moral document. A moral budget should reflect residents’ priorities and needs. The challenges Black and Brown communities in Chicago are facing today are a direct reflection of the immoral budgets that mayors and alderpeople have imposed on residents for decades,&#8221; the report stated, claiming that Chicago&#8217;s policing system had always been &#8220;racist&#8221; and had not contributed to safer communities.

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