Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. Trump's tax returns show

evil of the income tax. The final act of the Democrat majority on the House Ways and Means

Committee was to make public several years of Donald Trump's tax returns, which the committee

obtained after a prolonged legal battle. The tax returns confirm that despite being one of the

richest people in America, Donald Trump paid very little in federal income tax. In fact, in at

least one year he paid under a thousand dollars. Trump's success in minimizing his tax liability

without ever being audited is surprising only to those who think IRS audits are mainly used to

catch rich tax cheats. According to data released by the Syracuse University Trans-Actional Records

Clearing House, in 2022 lower income tax payers were five and a half times more likely than million

errors and billionaires to be audited. This is because low income tax payers cannot afford to hire

top notch tax attorneys and accountants to help fight the IRS, so they are more likely to give in

to the agency's demands. Despite claims of the Biden administration and its congressional allies,

the $80 million in additional funds provided to the agency as part of the misnamed

Inflation Reduction Act will likely increase the tax agency's targeting of low and middle income

Americans. Proponents of a flat tax or a national sales tax argued that such a system would ensure

millionaires and billionaires paid their fair share of taxes. Saying we must all pay our fair share

of taxes assumes we have a moral obligation to the government that can only be fulfilled by

turning over as much of our income as our so-called public servants demand. This is not the case.

Individuals have a moral duty to support their families and to support private charities if they

wish. They do not have a moral duty to support the government. Tax reform proponents also complain

that the current tax code contains too many loopholes that cause economic distortions and inefficiencies.

It is true that the current tax system promotes inefficiency, but this is caused by the income tax itself

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