Bills to allow the IRS to prepare your taxes keep popping up but the tax prep industry keeps shooting them down with strong lobbying.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IpNdrjeohf0

Tariffs are taxes. Taxation is theft. So what if, now that everyone has seen the error of their ways, and at the height of tax season, Trump repealed all tariffs and taxes? Imagine all that money dropping into consumers' and businesses' hands! Imagine a tax refund of all your withheld income tax.

I crossposted a post I made here to the Libertarian Party USA subreddit and the sheer number of 'you are not a Libertarian!!' comments is disheartening.

A federal judge in Arkansas permanently blocked a law requiring age verification for social media accounts, deeming it unconstitutional.

The law was stopped by U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks of the Western District of Arkansas.

In a Monday ruling, the judge said the law, known as Act 689, would violate the First Amendment rights of Arkansans because it is a “content-based restriction” on speech rights and the restriction isn’t narrowly tailored for a government interest.

Shouldn't the usual defenders of the disadvantaged be objecting to the requirements for this, the way they object to voter ID?

I remember back in the 70s when Republicans were very upset about the threat of a national ID. Laws were passed forbidding the use of one's Social Security number as a national ID number.

"Representative" democracy?

Fuck these spineless companies like Target. Shop at Costco instead.

Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are expected to soon introduce a bill to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in what would be one of the first bipartisan pushes in years to sunset the long-contested liability shield.  

Pressure is ramping up on lawmakers, who failed to pass most related legislation last session despite major lobbying efforts from tech safety groups and families hoping to hold technology companies accountable for social media harms, specifically on young children.