🤥 From the “no-one-making-under-$40000-will-pay-a-penny-more-of-tax” Dept: IRS plans to raid workers' tip jars. From Reason. A coming crackdown on $1.6 billion in unreported tips will continue the IRS' long and ugly history of targeting low-income Americans.
Americans tell CEOs: drop the ‘woke' and get back to business. From: Epoch News/Zero Hedge. New survey finds bipartisan majority are more likely to buy from companies that are politically neutral.
Biden’s billionaire tax is ‘dead on arrival’ in Congress, top Wall Street backers and Democratic strategists say. From: CNBC. It made for a good class-warfare talking point though.
😷 A scientific review shows the CDC grossly exaggerated the evidence supporting mask mandates. From: Creators. The analysis found that wearing masks in public ‘probably makes little or no difference.’ It was always about control.
‘Anonymous sources’ are how corporate media launder smear operations as news. From: The Federalist. It happened with the Russia hoax, it happened all during Trump’s time in the White House, and it happened again with the Chinese spy balloon.
Biden goes Bannon? From: Jonathan Turley. Counsel for Hunter rebuffs Congressional demands for documents.
Feeling manipulated? How Uncle Sam perfected the information state. From: Responsible Statecraft. “While the Twitter files revelations today have shocked some about the U.S. government’s role in advancing and enforcing the Russian influence/meddling narrative on private social media platforms beginning in 2017, they are part of a long, evolving history of covert and overt manipulation by Washington to promote support for its foreign policy goals.
‘The last of us’ gets what freaks us all out the most about government. From: Politico. Dystopian fiction once reflected a concern about big, chillingly technocratic government. Now, our worry is something even worse.