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• Government official: IRS targets conservative and Tea Party organizations - 13 May 2013
  posted in Taxation

  The powerful Treasury Department’s tax-collecting and enforcement agency, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), conceded on Friday that its agents targeted conservative PACs and Tea Party groups for politically-motivated audits during the 2012 election. The Obama White House claims that it has called for a full investigation into the complaints. According to the director of the [...]

• Big Government Bipartisanship: Internet Tax Supported by Democrats, Republicans - 25 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Taxation

  The Senate right now is in the midst of creating an online sales tax via the Marketplace Fairness Act. Two amendments to the act — Reid (on Enzi’s behalf) amendment #741; and the Durbin amendment #745 to the Reid/Enzi amendment #741 — will be decided today and on Friday the Upper House will vote to [...]

• Watch out for the “Martketplace Fairness” Act - 19 Apr 2013
  posted in Big Gov & Economy & Property & States & Taxation

  Last month, we wrote about the Enzi Amendment to the Senate’s Continuing Resolution, that it was essentially a measure to gauge support for the Marketplace Fairness Act as it had no force in and of itself. (Read that here: http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2013/03/anti-tax-gop-republican-senate-members-support-internet-tax/) Well, the actual MFA — the one that, if passed, would command government force — [...]

• The Biggest Tax in U.S. History (A Tax Day Message to Congress) - 15 Apr 2013
  posted in Alerts

  Conservative American, Today is Washington’s favorite holiday: “Tax Day.” It’s the final day to post-mark any payments to the IRS to give them the portion of your income that they entitle themselves to under the 16th amendment. While April 15 has long been an unpopular day for most of us, this year it’s notably worse. [...]

• Inefficient. Ineffective. and Unconstitutional. - 04 Apr 2013
  posted in Editorial & Foreign Aid & Globalism & Taxation

  “At issue is whether the government should ship U.S.-grown food overseas to aid developing countries and starving people or simply help those countries with cash to buy food. Currently, the United States is shipping food abroad under the “Food for Peace” program started almost six decades ago by President Dwight Eisenhower to help farmers get [...]

• It’s (not quite) a Riot! How the Constitution’s language differs - 02 Jan 2013
  posted in Columns & The Constitution & Uncategorized

  “. . . it opens a door to the appointment of a swarm of revenue and excise officers to prey upon the honest and industrious part of the community, eat up their substance, and riot on the spoils of the country.” – Judge Robert Yates, New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (warning in Dec. [...]

• Internet Tax Coming - 20 Dec 2012
  posted in Alerts & Big Gov & Civil Liberties & Economy & Taxation

  With Christmas just around the corner, there is shopping to be done. Seeing that the economy is still tight due to Washington’s terrible recession-prolonging policies, finding any type of savings on gift items makes a big difference. The internet has been a major avenue to savings — in most cases, small online shops and large [...]

• Unconstitutional Proposition 30 Ready to Make California the Highest Taxed State - 11 Dec 2012
  posted in Civil Liberties & Columns

  On Election Day 2012 the voters in California voted for an increase in sales tax, and a massive increase in State Income Tax on the wealthiest in the State.  The claim was that the money was needed for education, but in reality it is going to be used to help pay for rising pension costs. [...]

• All about Taxes - 28 Nov 2012
  posted in Columns & Taxation

  How many times have we heard that the only thing standing in the way of a grand bargain to reduce our growing national debt is Republican intransigence on taxes? If Republicans would only agree to dump Grover Norquist, Democrats will agree to cut spending and reform entitlements. Then, we can all join hands and sing [...]

• Sandy-Ravaged New Jersey Families Face $6,933 Tax Hike in Fiscal Cliff Stalemate - 27 Nov 2012
  posted in New Jersey

  Families in Hurricane Sandy-ravaged New Jersey will face the highest tax increase as a percentage of their income – 6.82%  or about $6,933 more in taxes — if Congress does not reach an agreement on the fiscal cliff tax issues during the lame-duck session, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation. In its study [...]