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opinion
Planned Parenthood Checklist: More Abortions, Less Actual Health Care, More Tax Dollars Than Ever
Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report is out. Unlike last year’s annual report, now we’re finally able to see how the 2022 Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade is affecting Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers and bottom line. Spoiler alert: Abortions and government funding are at all-time highs. Actual health care for things such as cancer screening… -
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Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Fund State Department’s DEI Pseudoscience
The federal government increasingly looks like an Ivy League classroom, combining therapy for fragile souls with indoctrination into specious ideology. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the State Department, where employees are encouraged to take courses in the name of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, or DEIA, that stress their differences, trauma, and status on the… -
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How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election
Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. The methods include voter registration and mobilization campaigns by ostensibly nonpartisan charities that target Democrats using demographic data as proxies, and the Biden administration’s unprecedented demand that every federal agency “consider… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Left-Wing Group Pushed a Policy That Could Shape 2024 Election Outcome—Using Your Tax Dollars
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Documents reveal an organization backed by Obama White House alumni such as Valerie Jarrett and bankrolled by liberal dark money donors advocated using tax dollars to pay college students to get out the vote in the 2024 election, doing so before the Biden administration announced the same policy. The Daily Signal… -
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After Feds Showered Blue State With Tax Dollars to Fix Homelessness, Here’s the Result
A plethora of federal agencies have spent well over $200 million attempting to alleviate homelessness in Washington state over the past 17 years, only for the number of people living on the streets to keep rising. Federal agencies like the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of… -
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Recipe for Economic Train Wreck: Biden’s FY ’25 Budget’s 10 Massive Tax Increases
President Joe Biden released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2025 on Monday. There’s something in his budget for everyone—everyone who loves tax hikes, that is. Biden would raise taxes by $5 trillion over 10 years, and—based on his budget—would allow an additional $2 trillion of middle-class tax cuts to expire after 2025. Between 2023… -
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Families Health Services Act Is a Taxpayer-Funded Attack on Families and Life
A sweeping Senate bill would radically expand in vitro fertilization and other reproductive technologies for military service members without regard to their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, promoting the creation of children outside of marriage, including between two men and their hired surrogates. Democrats pushed for a unanimous consent agreement Tuesday, meaning, if… -
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Taxpayers to Pay $3M for Mayorkas Impeachment Defense
The Department of Homeland Security so far has spent $3 million of taxpayer money to defend embattled Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas against impeachment by the House of Representatives, according to documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The DHS contract with a law firm was to cover the cost of a failed attempt to stave… -
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Taxation Without Reason
My income tax is due in a few weeks! I hate it. I’m pretty good at math, but I no longer prepare my own taxes. The form alone scares me. I feel I have to hire an accountant because Congress, endlessly sucking up to various interest groups, keeps adding to a tax code. Now even… -
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San Francisco Spent Massive Amount of Taxpayer Dollars to House Homeless During Pandemic
San Francisco wants federal taxpayers to help cover the more than $423 million it spent housing approximately 5,000 homeless people in hotels and other “non-congregate” facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The total cost per homeless person housed by San Francisco during the pandemic was $84,600, according to data reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco city… -
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Arizona’s Proposed Reversal in School Choice Would Hurt Taxpayers, Not Just Students and Their Families
Three decades ago, Arizona policymakers created opportunities for educators to start new schools and for families to choose between them. Unfortunately, though, the state’s current governor aims to sharply reverse Arizona’s embrace of educational choice. Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has called for the repeal of two programs: scholarship tax credits and education savings accounts. But… -
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Tax and Welfare Bill Reveals Washington’s Chronic Debt Delusion
Among the major pieces of legislation up for grabs in Congress is the inappropriately named “Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act,” which the powerful House Ways and Means Committee passed Jan. 19 with bipartisan support. The bill could receive a House floor vote as soon as this week, although there is considerable debate… -
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If You Ran Your Family Budget Like the Government, You’d Be Broke: ‘Tax Cut’ Edition
The bipartisan Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act might sound good on the surface. A closer look, however, reveals that the legislation is gimmicky, fiscally irresponsible, and misses a chance to fix work requirements for welfare. And its business tax cuts include retroactive relief alongside pro-growth tax cuts. To understand the gimmicky nature… -
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A Tax Policy Trojan Horse for Welfare Expansion and Inflationary Deficits
If you think congressional deadlocks are concerning, just wait until you see what Congress does when it’s in a blinding rush. The House Ways and Means Committee is ready to go from introducing its latest tax bill to House passage in under a week and a half. Though branded as full of middle-class tax cuts… -
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Military Colonel Resigns Post in Protest Against Biden’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Policy
A military officer is retiring from service in protest against the Biden administration’s abortion policies. According to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Col. Dillon R. Patterson voluntarily resigned from his position as the commander of the 188th Wing of the Arkansas Air National Guard on Dec. 18. In a letter Sanders addressed to President Joe Biden and… -
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As Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Market Share Goes Up, So Does Its Taxpayer Funding
To borrow from an old saying, nothing can be certain except for death and taxpayer funding for the abortion industry. At the request of pro-life members of Congress, the Government Accountability Office released the latest round of data detailing how much taxpayer funding goes to Planned Parenthood and other international abortion organizations. From 2019 through… -
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Pentagon Bill Now Includes Taxpayer Funding for Abortion, Sex Changes
The Heritage Foundation’s grassroots advocacy arm called Thursday for congressional lawmakers to reject the proposed National Defense Authorization Act, which includes funding for abortion and sex changes as well as to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the military. “Americans agree that maintaining a strong national defense involves having a mission-driven military that prioritizes restoring strength… -
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Supreme Court Case Has Democrats Salivating at Possibility of Green Light for Wealth Taxes
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a little case with potentially huge implications. The high court’s eventual decision in Moore v. USA could give a green light to Democrats in Congress and in state legislatures to enact taxes on unrealized gains, what liberals call “wealth taxes.” The Moore case doesn’t involve one of… -
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The Great Train Robbery: Taxpayer Subsidies for Amtrak Should Be Derailed
As the holiday season approaches, families across America are carefully planning how to spend their hard-earned money on travel and purchases. If only our elected officials in Washington were as frugal. Many of them, it seems, are trying to spend as much of your tax money as possible on wasteful handouts and vanity projects. And waste is… -
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The BorderLine: New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’—Why Are Taxpayers Forced to House Unlimited Illegal Aliens?
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- Faced with a flood of caught-and-released illegal…