Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has an estimate for us: Somewhere between 5-10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). “If we can narrow that number, … Continue reading →
You almost got to admire Hunter Biden for being such a good demonstration of the old Jewish joke about the definition of chutzpah – the guy who murders his parents and says the court should be lenient with him because … Continue reading →
It’s even worse than previously thought: David Weiss, the US Attorney who has led the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, reportedly did not plan to charge the president’s son until IRS whistleblowers came forward about his alleged tax fraud, according … Continue reading →
Follow the money: This is the first of two reports based on internal Arabella documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. They provide a rare window into the inner workings of the Left’s dark-money network, revealing just how centrally controlled … Continue reading →
The two-tiered “justice” system marches on. This time the IRS was willing to apply the usual standard to Biden’s son Hunter and charge him with a felony, but the DOJ never carried out the recommendation: Rep. Jason Smith (R., Mo.) … Continue reading →
Apparently, the entire IRS team that was investigating Hunter Biden has been taken off the case: The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against … Continue reading →
…and says you have nothing to fear from the agency going on steroids, if you haven’t cheated on your taxes. Perhaps they know they won’t be the ones targeted. "Can you understand how 87,000 new IRS agents would scare the … Continue reading →
One less-discussed part of the new spending bill about to be passed is the money being appropriated for the IRS to go after taxpayers with greater vigor. The following is from a WSJ editorial: The $80 billion [proposed funding for … Continue reading →
It seems to me that the Biden administration’s proposal to expand the spy powers of the feds and the IRS wouldn’t be popular even with most Democrats, if they knew about it: The Biden proposal would drop the dollar threshold … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I did my taxes by hand this year, as usual, and once again I began to wonder about halfway through why I do such a thing. Isn’t everyone just plugging numbers into a computer program these days, or using … Continue reading →