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A team of four astronauts will lift off at 5:49 a.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Read More.

President Biden will propose hiking the capital gains tax rate from 20% to 39.6%, Bloomberg first reported Thursday, meaning that the top federal tax rate for some high-earning individuals could rise to 43.4% thanks to an additional 3.8% tax on net investment income that was passed as part of Obamacare. Read More.

Like the lady above whose smartphone is being stolen from her purse, we are all being victimized by thieves.  Just who are these thieves?  They are the ever-growing number of people who are illegally evading their income taxes. Read More.

Bitcoin has advanced over 90% so far this year, despite a dip Read More.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had found problems including peeling paint and loose debris during inspections at a U.S. plant in Baltimore that makes Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine and asked for remediation of the issues. Read More.

TOPLINE Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on Wednesday introduced legislation to make college tuition free for millions of Americans, paid for by a new tax on Wall Street trades. Read More.

Verizon Communications Inc. lost a larger than expected 178,000 wireless customers last quarter Read More.

GameStop Corp’s (GME.N) George Sherman will step down as chief executive officer in the biggest shakeup at the video game retailer, giving top shareholder Ryan Cohen more control as he leads the company’s shift to e-commerce. Read More.

For more than a century, Standard Industries has been on top of the roofing world. Now co-CEOs David Millstone and David Winter are ready to roll out a high-tech solar version to rival Tesla’s and give home construction a jolt. Read More.

U.S. equity markets pulled back from record highs Monday as another week of trading kicked off on Wall Street. Read More.

🇺🇸 The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 4/19/21: “Hostile Argument: State and Local Taxes Will Skyrocket” Read More.

US-issued sanctions were a response to Moscow’s alleged meddling in last year’s US election Read More.

Tax cases involving Native Americans are complex, highly fact-intensive, and if required, a court must weigh the competing interests of the tribe, the federal government, and the state to determine if the tax stands or falls. Read More.

The news this week from the IRS Commissioner that Americans are cheating Uncle Sam out of maybe more than $1 trillion in taxes each year was greeted in a familiar way on my social media — with supporters of the FairTax saying it’s time to move to a completely different tax system. Read More.

The reason for the obvious lack of enthusiasm shown by Congress, the D.C. think tanks and the media is that the people to whom they answer, the Ruling Class, see the FAIRtax for what it is—a huge transfer of power and money from D.C. to the citizens. Read More.