It would run afoul of the First Amendment, among other issues. By Annette Meeks Guest contributor to the Minnesota Star Tribune April 20, 2026 ••• What do progressives do when they run out of other people’s money to spend? You don’t have to look any further than Minnesota to find out: Recently Gov. Tim Walz proposed a first-of-the-nation “social media tax.” Yes, they invent new methods of …
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Americans are allowed to voluntarily contribute money to the U.S. Treasury’s “tax me more” fund. But not much money is being donated despite the false appeals to “patriotism” peddled by tax hikers. In calling for tax increases, affluent Democrats and progressive activists try to assert that Americans opposed to such tax hikes are lacking in patriotism. The tax hikers go on to say that they …
By Zach Freimark and Sarah Hitchcock America First Policy Institute On July 4, 2025, Congress passed, on a bipartisan vote, a package of reconciliations, commonly referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Included in the bill was a provision that created the Education Freedom Tax Credit (EFTC), which funds elementary and secondary education programs. This scholarship will allow taxpayers to …
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