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Confused? Let NPR try to explain : President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president's sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs. The filing alleges that the leak of Trump and the Trump Organization's confidential tax records caused "reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other Plaintiffs' public standing." In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. — who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm — was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking tax inf...

 

 

 Not much that will help the non-rich: Here's one indication of how problematic the bill is: Marjorie Taylor Greene, a MAGA member and proud Trump supporter, is now against the bill, after realizing what's in it (yes; that means that she didn't read it all before voting for it). 

 

 Jimmy Dore's rightfully skeptical .

 Although the House has (narrowly) passed the " give rich people what they want bill " the libertarian Rep from Kentucky has stayed steadfast: Libertarians have been put on the GOP back-burner in favor of MAGA ( although some claim that the two overlap ). This back-and-forth can only increase the tension between the two camps, fraying an already strained alliance. 

 

 They range from "We're screwed," to "Let's wait and see," to "Hey, I'm rich; it's not my problem"

  Also, the tariffs (aka, import taxes) will help generate the "revenue" needed:

 

 Hint: not what you may think.

 Such a wonderful plan that it's not (as of this posting) on her campaign website, huh? But let's just address the "high points" on the screenshot: $25,0000 Subsidy for First-Time Homebuyers . There are currently around 15.1 million vacant homes in the US , so it's not because of a lack of available housing. Also the median sale prices for new homes is $417,300 (for those in the US, check on what it is in your state ). So even if this tepid offer allowed all 1 million people to get a house, there's still over 14 million empty homes. And this doesn't begin to address the people who lost their homes when the housing market collapsed in 2008 . This plan only sounds good if you haven't been following politics since 2004.  $6,000 Child Tax Credits . The average cost of having a child in the United States is $18,865 . Good luck finding the remaining $12,865 when the median income is around $48k . Again: it helps, but not enough.  Elimination of Medical Debt...