Politics
IRS Announces Sweeping Effort to Restore Fairness to Tax System With Inflation Reduction Act Funding
"The effort, building off work following last August's IRA funding, will center on adding more attention on wealthy, partnerships and other high earners that have seen sharp drops in audit rates for these taxpayer segments during the past decade. The changes will be driven with the help of improved technology as well as Artificial Intelligence that will help IRS compliance teams better detect tax cheating, identify emerging compliance threats and improve case selection tools to avoid burdening taxpayers with needless "no-change" audits." more »
Jo Freeman Reviews: Revolutionary Feminists: The Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle; A Good Read and Reference Book
Jo Freeman Writes: "The women’s liberation movement (wlm) flowered in the late 1960s. Seattle was one of the seeds, as one of five cities in North America where small groups formed independently, without an outsider bringing the news from someplace else. It pollinated much of the northwest. As was true elsewhere, wlm groups divided and multiplied. Within two years there were three independent women’s liberation organizations. As was not true elsewhere, the founders, and most of their followers, thought of themselves as revolutionaries before they became feminists."
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A Proclamation on Women’s Equality Day 2023 and the 100th Anniversary of the Introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment
"My Administration is committed to realizing the promise of the suffragists, who knew that equality begins at the ballot box and requires women to have a seat at the table. That is why we will keep fighting to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act to ensure fair Congressional maps give all Americans an equal chance to be heard. It is also why I have delivered on my promise to build an Administration that looks like America — with courageous leaders like Vice President Kamala Harris and the record number of women who serve in our Nation’s first gender-equal Cabinet leading the way." more »
Special Counsel Jack Smith Files Two Federal Indictments Accusing Mr. Trump of Three Conspiracies
"THE MEN AND WOMEN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO DEFENDED THE U.S. CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6 ARE HEROES. THEY ARE PATRIOTS AND THEY ARE THE VERY BEST OF US. THEY DID NOT JUST DEFEND A BUILDING WITH PEOPLE SHELTERING IN IT, THEY PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE TO DEFEND WHO WE ARE AS A COUNTRY AND AS A PEOPLE. THEY DEFENDED THE VERY INSTITUTIONS AND PRINCIPLES THAT DEFINE THE UNITED STATES. SINCE THE ATTACK ON OUR CAPITOL, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS REMAINED COMMITTED TO ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THOSE CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY" more »