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Raising Payroll Taxes to Save Social Security Will Cost the Average Worker $73,000
FactCheck Abets False Obama Claim About Romney’s Taxes
The Tax Rates of Wall Streeters and Steelworkers
Widely Touted Study on State and Local Taxes is a Sham
The “Inflation Reduction Act” Will Do Almost Nothing That Joe Manchin Says It Will
Reporters Wrong: Romney Pays a Far Higher Federal Tax Rate Than Most Americans
Has Government Turned Us Into a Nation of Makers and Takers?
Social Security Has Been Boosted, Not Looted
Social Security and Class Warfare
Fact-Based Poll Reveals Fictions Believed by Voters
The Payroll Tax Holiday Does Not Impact Social Security, but It Does Redistribute Wealth
Warren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims (Part 2)
Pre-Election Poll: Voters Broadly Misinformed About Key Issues
High-Income Earners Pay a Much Higher Federal Tax Rate Than the Middle Class
Poll Reveals Voters Misinformed About Key Issues
Poll Reveals Voters are Uninformed About Major Issues
Social Security’s Trust Fund to Start Losing Value in 2013
Warren Buffett’s Fraudulent Tax Claims
Solar Energy Costs and Impacts
Federal Government’s 2017 Fiscal Shortfall Is 74% Worse Than Reported Budget Deficit
Tax Fairness Question at GOP Debate Rooted in Falsehood Spread by Media
Effects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations
Support for “Soaking the Rich” Is Rooted in Media Misinformation
Can We Prevent a Debt-Driven Economic Collapse Without Reforming Entitlements?
Government-Mandated Benefits Suppress Workers’ Wages
Federal Fiscal Shortfall Surges Past $100 Trillion
Federal Fiscal Shortfall Nears $1 Million Per Household
Maddow’s Tax and Deficit Doubletalk
What the $20 Trillion National Debt Means to You
The School Funding Inequity Farce
Beware of the “Fact Checkers”
Congressional Records Prove Biden’s Student Loan Cancellations Are Illegal
Everything You’ve Heard About the Debt Limit is Wrong
The Costs and Savings of Changing Social Security to a Personal Ownership System
Are Incandescent Light Bulbs Being Banned?
Paul Krugman’s Claims About the Dangers of Government Debt
The National Debt Is Rising—Not Declining
Audit Reveals Federal Finances Are Far Worse Than Publicized Figures
Does the Social Security Trust Fund Really Exist?
Treasury Report: Federal Fiscal Shortfall is $603,000 per Household
Myths and Causes of Income Inequality
Treasury Data Reveals Federal Shortfall of $614,000 per U.S. Household
Donald Trump and the Media Agree on Middle-Class Income, and They are Both Wrong
A Factual Look at Obama’s Presidency
New Treasury Data Shows Federal Shortfall of $670,000 Per U.S. Household
The SAT Is Feeding Students Solar Industry Propaganda
Bernie Sanders’ Education Plan is Rife With Deceit
Widespread Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate the Number of Americans Who Are Destitute
AOC’s Baseless Accusation That the U.S. Is a “Brutal, Barbarian Society”
The Average Cost of Public School Education Is 58% More Than Private School
Taking Social Security Off-Budget
Obama’s Plan for Tackling the Deficit
The Impact of Obamacare and Ryancare on Medicare
Blame for the National Debt
Social Security Trust Fund to Begin Declining in 2014, Not 2021
The Term “Carbon Pollution” Is Unscientific and Misleading
Quantitative Easing: Who Wins and Who Loses?
Current National Debt Situation is the Worst in U.S. History
How Hard and Effectively do Americans Work?
Poll: Public Broadly Unaware that “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” was Disproved by Obama Administration
Are Today’s Newborns the Luckiest Generation in U.S. History?
PolitiFact’s Deceptive Report on Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens
2017: The Year in Facts and Falsehoods
Government Spending on Higher Education Reaches an All-Time High
Media Titans Subvert Reality About Biden/Ukraine Profiteering
Smoking Gun: Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal
Washington Post Buried Proof of Joe Biden’s Bribery
Joe Biden’s Email Alias Escorted Phone Numbers of Top U.S. Officials to Hunter
Hard Evidence Warranting the Impeachment of Joe Biden
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…same period, military spending shrunk from 53% of federal outlays to less than 20%. The share of the U.S. economy collected in federal taxes has been roughly level for 80+…
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