Biden To Beg Congress For $14B In Israel Aid, $60B For Ukraine As Part Of $105B Package
Earlier Friday we noted that President Biden is planning to divert ammunition from Ukraine to Israel, with Pentagon spox Patrick Ryder insisting "we can support both Ukraine and Israel in terms of their defensive needs."
Now, as announced in a Thursday night primetime address from the Oval Office (Biden's second), the administration is about to approach Congress with a $105 billion package request that will include $60 billion for Ukraine, which the MSM immediately notes is "in line with an annual appropriation to continue US aid."
The administration is also seeking to send $14 billion in Israel aid, which officials say reflects requests Biden received while traveling to the region on Wednesday, as well as $14 billion for border security - a provision meant to appease fractured House Republicans, who are currently working out a new speaker.
The full breakdown of Biden's request is as follows:
$60 billion in funding to Ukraine
$14 billion to Israel
$10 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine and around the world
$14 billion for border funding to address drug trafficking and fentanyl
$7 billion for the Indo-Pacific and Taiwan
Biden justified the Israel aid by saying that the terrorist group Hamas, which attacked Israel this month, as well as Russia, "both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy."
"History has taught us that when terrorists don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictatorships don’t pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction," said Biden. "We cannot and will not let terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin win --- I refuse to let that happen."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-beg-congress-14b-israel-aid-60b-ukraine-part-105b-package
Entire states need to do this.
I agree 100%! I would stop paying my taxes tomorrow. I’d claim “exempt” on my W-4 from work. However, nobody else would join me and come tax time, they would pursue me and throw my ass in jail for “tax evasion” even though according to the IRS code, taxes rely on “voluntary compliance”!
That's not exactly true. The thing is that you just have to not contract with the IRS. If you file, that's contracting, and when you self-report your income, that's voluntary compliance. If you lie about your income in order to pay less taxes, that's tax evasion. If you claim exempt and then file and self report honestly and it puts you in the non-exempt category, then you'll owe, because you volunteered that info.
The bottom line is that it's entirely within your rights to get 100% of your entire paycheck up front, and tell your employer that you can handle the responsibility to figure out what to do. They are actually the ones who have the contract with the IRS so the liability is on them UNTIL you self-report, then you become liable.
This isn't legal advice, but that's from all the research I've gathered. I haven't filed in years and no one has come after me.
So, if you tell your employer that you want no taxes taken out and you’ll figure out what to to regarding taxes, your employer will comply? I hear all the time that employers withhold taxes (especially on bonuses) because it is a “mandatory tax withholding” situation. On top of that, what if you work for a governmental organization? I’m pretty sure they will cooperate with the IRS and withhold taxes from your paycheck.