I & I Editorial BoardOn Monday, we posted an editorial reflecting our most recent I&I/TIPP poll, which found that by a 4-to-1 margin, Americans think their taxes have gone up, despite the seven major tax cuts contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
(See: “This I&I/TIPP Poll Is A Warning: Trump Needs To Do A Much Better Job Selling His Tax Cuts.”)
“Our poll findings should be a red flag for President Donald Trump,” we wrote, and went on to say:
He needs to do a much better job of telling the public the truth about the tax cuts he signed into law. About how they are benefiting working-class families. About how his policies are accelerating economic growth.
Yes, we know, Trump has talked about his tax cuts. But clearly not enough. Certainly not enough to overcome the Democrats’ and the media’s chorus of lies.
Trump knows how to sell stuff. So why isn’t he and his administration out there selling his tax cuts and his economic growth message, day in and day out?
Well, Thursday morning, we came across this headline in Newsmax: “Trump to Promote Tax Breaks in Las Vegas.”
While in Vegas, Newsmax says, Trump will “hold a roundtable with several police officers who have benefited from new tax breaks on overtime, along with a barber and a casino pit supervisor, who got to claim the new tax breaks on tips.”
Now, of course, we can’t be sure that Trump read our editorial and said, “You know, those fellas at Issues & Insights are right!”
But we will take credit for it nonetheless.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
You should probably add a Truth Social (TS) share icon to the stack of others being shown. He tends to retweet Just The News’ posts on TS and they have TS share buttons on each article. Showing a Pinterest share icon (which is the wrong platform for your articles) and not a Truth Social share icon is sacrilegious. 😉 I’d share your stuff to TS like I do to X and FB, but there’s no button for it. Gotta make it easy for your readers.
Thank you for the suggestion!
If Trump wants a positive outlook on taxes, he needs to cut the IRS, not taxes. You can’t tease your base with myriad hints of abolishing the IRS and then fail to follow through.
Read the law. Its only two short paragraphs.
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Its not so much that our taxes are going up, its the spotlight shining on what we’re actually buying – health care for illegals, rails to nowhere, Obozocare, sex change for inmates and illegals… all the grift DOGE uncovered. I propose a one year income tax holiday for ALL US CITIZENS!!! YOU OWE US!!!
Taxes:
1. Reduce the size of governments so local, state and Feds are not wasting billions. Philadelphia where I live pays for employees in 126 departments, committees and agencies, half of which redundant, silly and were never needed in the first place. Waste of several billion of our city’s budget.
Each state and the Fed Gov are probably exactly the same.
2. Cost of tax prep; save us those annual accountant’s fees by reforming the tax code, and as Stephen Forbes proposed decades ago, most filers could file on a 3 x 5 card. Re-assign accountants as we did highway toll collectors.
3. Get Smart and Stop being Backward and Stupid in all levels of our government, for heavens sake.
Not all states have adopted OBBB which in- turn has had negative impacts on state and federal returns.