President, Americans for Tax Reform. Father of two young ladies.
Washington D.C.
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The new left wants to make sure no one works for themselves, everyone has to have a boss. And union bosses have first crack at you. Americans should be able to be their own bosses.
Imposing a punishing new licensing regime on New York delivery drivers will kill jobs, restrict worker freedom & make life even more expensive for New Yorkers.
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Imposing a punishing new licensing regime on New York delivery drivers will kill jobs, restrict worker freedom & make life even more expensive for New Yorkers.
nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-new… @HannahFNYP
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Car thieves calling 911 to tell police to stop following them?
@stevemgordon67 tells @GroverNorquist how Washington's former police pursuit restrictions worked and how an initiative effort helped change the law.
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"Steel tariffs protect producers at the expense of the businesses that depend on them.
As of July 1, the European Union has capped duty-free steel imports at about 18.3 million tonnes (20.2 US tons) a year, 47% below 2024 quota levels. Regulation (EU) 2026/1384 also doubles the duty on imports that exceed those limits, from 25% to 50%.
Brussels justifies these measures by pointing to global overcapacity and the need for strategic autonomy."
- @claudiashandi
The whole world is watching Mr. kirby
You can Write the check
Good news for the United Airlines CEO who volunteered to pay a wealth tax. Under existing law he's allowed to lead by example and can cut a check for 5% of his net wealth to the IRS's "tax me more" fund.
Directions below.
atr.org/united-airlines-ceo-…
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The challenge for Europe is that too many of the nations are committing suicide. Deliberately taxing, regulating and spending (other people's money) as costs increase, work decreases and there is limited interest or money left available for the few (very few) legitimate functions of a government: defense and punishing crime (real crime, not texts and tweets)
Europe lacks federalism. (And guns, but that is for another day)
In the United States, yes California, New York and Rhode island are behaving like Europe on a bad day. But they have to compete with grown up states that have eliminated their state income taxes, limited the power of unions to abuse workers, given parents the right to control their kids educaton.
We have no Berlin Wall and people leave "socialist" states and move to more limited government states.
Heck, East Germany picked up on this after a while. California will also. Maybe not Massachusetts.
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🚨"JOLLY WILL RAISE YOUR TAXES IF ELECTED!": President of Americans for Tax Reform points out how David Jolly, during his time as a Republican, NEVER joined others in opposing tax raises with the ATR
@GroverNorquist: "Most all the Republicans running for congress have signed the pledge NOT to raise taxes."
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🚨@GroverNorquist: "Whenever the government takes over something, [...] whenever the government works to make something cost less, the costs GO UP!"
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List of 101 Entities Providing Contributions to Trump Accounts for Kids atr.org/trumpaccounts/
Short video produced by Atlas Society on the Crimes
and murders of Che Guevara...share with any college kids you know who think it is funny to wear a shirt adorned with this murderer's face smiling.
youtu.be/etgG8wkg_Fw?si=cYjt…
The challenge for Europe is that too many of the nations are committing suicide. Deliberately taxing, regulating and spending (other people's money) as costs increase, work decreases and there is limited interest or money left available for the few (very few) legitimate functions of a government: defense and punishing crime (real crime, not texts and tweets)
Europe lacks federalism. (And guns, but that is for another day)
In the United States, yes California, New York and Rhode island are behaving like Europe on a bad day. But they have to compete with grown up states that have eliminated their state income taxes, limited the power of unions to abuse workers, given parents the right to control their kids educaton.
We have no Berlin Wall and people leave "socialist" states and move to more limited government states.
Heck, East Germany picked up on this after a while. California will also. Maybe not Massachusetts.
Europe may not make it
The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than half from the private sector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!):
-France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974).
- Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019.
-Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years.
- Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007.
- UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).
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35 YEARS AGO TODAY, Justice Clarence Thomas was confirmed by a vote of 52-48 after the Democrats launched an all-out war to destroy him.
They failed spectacularly. Despite the most vicious smears and lies, Justice Thomas never backed down.
In a legendary exchange during the hearing, when Justice Thomas was told by Senator Hatch that there were rumors that he was going to withdraw, Justice Thomas said, “I would rather die than withdraw. If they’re going to kill me, they’re going to kill me . . . I’d rather die than withdraw from the process, not for the purpose of serving on the Supreme Court but for the purpose of not being driven out of this process... I’ve never run from bullies. I never cry uncle and I’m not going to cry uncle today whether I want to be on the Supreme Court or not.”
God Bless Justice Thomas for his courage and perseverance in the face of such an outrageous assault.
Justice Thomas is now our second longest serving Justice in American history, and more important, he has had more impact on American jurisprudence than any Justice in history. His opinions have led the way in returning the Court’s jurisprudence to the Constitution’s original meaning.
Justice Thomas is an American hero and our nation’s greatest justice.
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s No Tax Pledge Key to Campaign Success atr.org/flavio-bolsonaros-no… @InLivreMercado @rodrigomar @GroverNorquist @taxreformer @FlavioBolsonaro #Brazil #freemarket #taxreform
Some civilizations are not very civil
Preindustrial societies could be very creative when it came to cruelty.
Across cultures, punishment and execution took forms that are difficult to imagine today. The fate of Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe is one particularly gruesome example.
Discover more about the darker realities of the past in @chellivia’s The Grim Old Days.
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Are AI data centers driving up your electricity bill?
Did the One Big Beautiful Bill give them a special tax break?
ATR's @erwin1854 and @Mike_Palicz break down the claims, explain what the tax law actually says, and show how Democratic scare tactics against data centers are being funded by the Chinese Communist Party.