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NY’s Millionaire Mass Exodus: Wealth Flees, $11 Billion in Tax Revenue Vanishes
By The Geller Report “The Communists’ chief purpose is to destroy every form of independence—independent work, independent action, independent property, independent thought, an independent mind, or an independent man. Conformity, alikeness, servility, submission and obedience are necessary to establish a Communist slave-state.” — Ayn Rand It was inevitable that demonizing, attacking and over-taxing the wealthy […]
One of the Biggest Fraud Rings You Never Heard of: Social Adult Daycares — Billions in NYC alone
By The Geller Report As a taxpayer I am sickened at the abuse and contempt of hardworking Americans. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined investigative influencer Nick Shirley in New York City to confront operators of suspected Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemes. Visiting elderly daycare centers and medical equipment companies, there are major red flags, […]
Critically Thinking about K-12 Expenditures vs Performance
By John Droz, Jr. Let’s keep things in perspective… The teacher’s unions, and other self-serving allies, are always claiming that teacher pay is too low — and fixing that will solve the education crisis in our K-12 system (e.g., see here and here). However, like a LOT of things we hear these days, this is inaccurate. Such assertions […]
Vance Takes Center Stage In White House Push To Protect GOP Majority
By The Daily Caller Vice President JD Vance flew to Bangor, Maine, on May 14 for what was billed as an Anti-Fraud Task Force rally, but the trip quickly revealed its true purpose. Vance shouted out former GOP Gov. Paul LePage, who is mounting a congressional bid, and extended an olive branch to Republican Sen. […]
IRS Allows Hamas Non-Profit to Operate Even After FBI Bust
By Jihad Watch There’s nothing the IRS won’t allow except conservatives. We’ve been covering IRS abuses for a long time and while it’s gone after conservative, Christian and Jewish groups, it’s allowed leftist and Islamist groups to go on operating. This may be the most extreme example yet. The Justice Department today announced the unsealing of […]
California Received 80% of Funds for Illegal Immigrant Households While Americans Faced Stricter Rules
By The Daily Signal California accounted for more than 80% of all federal welfare cash assistance provided to households headed by illegal immigrants in 2024, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. The report found that $759 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash assistance was provided to […]
Trump Reveals Controversial Plan to Make Americans ‘Very Rich’
By The Daily Signal President Donald Trump said the public will become “very rich” due to his plan for the government to have stakes in top artificial intelligence companies. “We’re talking about giving back something to the public, and if we do that, the public will become very rich, the people in our country, because […]
SMASHING RECORDS: Huge May Jobs Report DEMOLISHED All Expectations
By The Geller Report Wages outplaced inflation. Yahoo Finance: The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May, blowing past expectations, according to the government’s closely watched jobs report. The unemployment rate remained flat at 4.3%. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had anticipated payroll growth of 88,000 for the month. April’s jobs report — which itself was a massive […]
Amid War in Iran and Funding Ukraine, Rubio Tells Congress the State Department Is ‘America First’
By The Daily Signal Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday to testify about his 2027 “America First” State Department budget request. While most department budgets increase significantly, this is the second consecutive year the State Department continues to make significant cuts, no longer operating as “the world’s […]
Is Fighting Fraud Now Partisan?
By Family Research Council More than a dozen state attorneys general (AGs) met with Vice President J.D. Vance at a Tuesday meeting of the Trump administration’s anti-fraud roundtable, but not one of them was a Democrat. “Democratic AGs were invited to that same meeting, and it won’t surprise you that none of them attended,” declared Alabama Attorney […]
‘Morally Incomprehensible’: Jihad Mamdani Spends MILLIONS on his Propaganda Office
By The Geller Report Mamdani is worse, far worse, than even the most dire predictions. “This is purely politics at a time when real services are needed,” Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf told The Post. “We have real deficits and this mayor is spending five million dollars to put 40 political operatives on the payroll. […]
Team Trump Says Welfare Fraud Is So Vast It Could Wipe Out The Federal Deficit
By The Geller Report Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is so massive that eliminating it alone could balance the entire federal budget “The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.” “We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of […]
All 37 Trump Endorsed Candidates WON Tuesday’s Primaries
By The Geller Report Love it. Truth Social: Trump celebrated Tommy Tuberville’s win for the GOP nomination as governor of Alabama, Burt Jones advancing to the runoff in Georgia, Houston Gaines’ win for the nomination in Georgia’s 10th, Andrew Clyde in Georgia’s 9th, Stacy Garrity to challenge Josh Shapiro for governor of Pennsylvania, Mike Kelly […]
HERO: Trump Creates $1.8 Billion Fund to Fight Weaponization In Exchange For Dropping His $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the IRS
By The Geller Report Axios reports: President Trump settled his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS on Monday in exchange for a $1.776 billion fund to compensate those who claim they were targets of government “weaponization.” The fund creates an unprecedented, taxpayer-backed mechanism to compensate people who claim they were wrongfully targeted, potentially including Jan. […]
Zombies, DEI, and the Fall of LA: Why Spencer Pratt Is on the Rise
By The Daily Signal Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Well, you know what’s not a beautiful place to live, Victor, segueing, is Los Angeles. […]
215,000 Federal Civilian Employees Were Tax-Delinquent in 2024: IG Report
By Family Research Council Some 215,000 federal civilian employees owed the government money in unpaid taxes in Fiscal Year 2024, according to a May 6 report by the Treasury Inspector General (IG) for Tax Administration. The number grew by more than 40% since Fiscal Year 2021, despite a growth of only 4% in the federal civilian workforce, […]
Trump Says He Wants to Suspend the Gas Tax
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV President Trump said Monday that he supports suspending the federal gas tax “for a period of time” to help lower prices at the pump, which have spiked dramatically since the start of the war with Iran. “I think it’s a great idea,” the president told CBS News during […]
Dan Franzese Announces Candacy for U.S. Congress in Florida’s 25th District
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com Conservative business leader pledges to fight for lower costs, secure borders and the Trump agenda in newly redrawn FL-25 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Dan Franzese today announced his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in Florida’s newly redrawn 25th Congressional District (FL-25). Franzese — who was the […]
Marine Veteran Tim Wilkins Announces Run for Congress in Florida’s 11th District
By Editorial Board – DrRichSwier.com /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Tim Wilkins — a professional stand-up comedian, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, and 30-year community servant — today announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress in Florida’s 11th Congressional District. A working comedian who has spent decades on stage, Wilkins also brings real-world experience as a CFO, […]
Mamdani Uses Taxpayer Money to Build a City-Funded Activist Army
By The Daily Signal New York City may be broker than a barista with a college degree but that isn’t stopping socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani from funding his activist army. On Wednesday, the mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement rolled out a program called “Organize NYC” that’s billed asopens in a new tab a “long-term initiative to bring mass […]
Mamdani, Hochul Agree to Tax on Luxury Second Homes in New York City
By The Geller Report Fox News: Anyone who thought that Governor Hochul. Hochul, the organ grinder’s monkey, would perhaps moderate Zohran Mamdani was sorely mistaken. Hochul is all in on Mamdani’s taxation policies. What wealthy individual would want to invest or live in New York City at this point? The message is unmistakable: they won’t […]
RFK Jr. Estimates Los Angeles Hospice Scams Cost U.S. $5,000,000,000
By The Daily Caller Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a House committee Thursday that the total cost of hospice fraud in Los Angeles could reach $5,000,000,000. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who posted a video in December showing him investigating allegedly fraudulent day care centers run by Somali migrants, posted a similar video looking […]
ABUSIVE TAXATION: Top 25% Pay Nearly 90%—Bottom 50% Pay Zero
By The Geller Report Did you know? The truth about what top earners pay in terms of all income taxes collected by the US government: the top 1% pays 40% of all income taxes the top 25% pays 87% of all income taxes the bottom 50% pays 2.3% of all income taxes CNBC: While Americans […]
Real Wage Growth and Bigger Refunds: GOP Touts ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ on Tax Day
By The Daily Signal President Donald Trump and Republicans are hoping to cash in politically on the extra amount of cash in Americans’ wallets this Tax Day. Across the country, Americans are cashing in on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s tax provisions and receiving a boost from real wage growth in the Trump economy. “This tax […]
GOP Announces a Historic Investment to Save the Senate Majority
By The Daily Signal The Senate Leadership Fund, a conservative super PAC, announced it is investing $342 million across eight different 2026 Senate races. The massive advertisement buy, announced Monday, is the largest investment SLF has ever made in an election cycle, and it represents a different approach. “[The] Senate Leadership Fund is better positioned than ever […]
New Defense Deal Could Tighten U.S. Control Over Another Critical Seaway
By The Daily Caller U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his Indonesian counterpart announced a defense deal Monday in Virginia that could strengthen U.S. control in a seaway critical for China. Hegseth and Indonesian Minister of Defense Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin agreed to strengthen an existing agreement between the two countries to a Major Defense Cooperation […]
The Laffer Curve Is Even Better Than We Thought
By The Daily Signal The field of economics fully developed scientifically in the 20th century. The names John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek come to mind. However, one additional man became the one most referenced in the last part of the 20th century and continues as such today. That man is Arthur Laffer. […]
Trump’s War on the Deep State Is Paying Off
By The Daily Signal The days of peak DOGE may be over, but Trump’s quiet transformation of the federal bureaucracy continues. The Trump administration shrank the federal workforce to its smallest number since the launch of LBJ’s Great Society. This incredible stat, little remarked upon by the media, was dredged up by X user Christian […]
No, Texans and Floridians Do NOT Pay Twice the Taxes Paid by Californians
By Family Research Council Texas has the most regressive state tax system, but charges poor people more than California does its affluent residents, according to the Golden State’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who further claims that middle-class Texans pay more than residents of his state and Florida. “Who are you for? Are you just for […]
Presidential Order Establishing an Anti-Fraud Task Force headed by Vice President JD Vance
By The Geller Report President Trump signs an Executive Order committing to seek out and crush fraud with a new Anti-Fraud Task Force. “If we found half of the fraud that’s taking place in this country… we would have much more than a balanced budget. That’s the kind of numbers you’re talking about.” – […]