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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

New U.S. Postal Service election division will oversee mail-in ballots

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service is creating a division to handle election mail issues as part of an effort to ensure swift and secure delivery of ballots for the 2022 midterm election, officials said Wednesday.

The idea behind the creation of the Election and Government Mail Services is to have a permanent division dedicated to dealing with election matters, instead of handling issues one at a time as in the past.

Adrienne Marshall, executive director of the division, said Wednesday that the services will oversee “election mail strike teams” in every local and district community to address any problems that might arise.

“We are fully committed to the secure and timely delivery of the nation’s election mail,” she said.

The Postal Service was dogged by backlogs and questions ahead of the 2020 presidential election, in which more than 135 million ballots were delivered to and from voters.

Despite the pandemic, the Postal Service said it delivered 97.9% of ballots from voters to election officials within three days, and 99.89% of ballots were delivered within seven days, in the 2020 election.

The Postal Service is sending guidance letters to election officials in each state and territory this week.

Postal workers are already hard at work delivering ballots this...

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Senior Economist ‘Fact Checked’ By Facebook For Saying U.S. Is In Recession

“We live in an Orwellian hell-scape.”

An experienced economist has been ‘fact checked’ and corrected by Facebook after he stated that the U.S. is now in a recession.

Phil Magness, a researcher and educator with the American Institute for Economic Research, reacted to the incident by commenting “We live in an Orwellian hell-scape.”

Facebook uses ‘independent’ fact checkers at Politifact, a brazenly partisan operation, which ‘corrected’ Magness’ post about the Biden administration attempting to change the definition of a recession.

Magness provided examples of previous statements by Biden himself about being in a recession that were never fact checked:

The economist also noted that practically every other country defines a recession as two consecutive quarters of negative growth:

Biden and his underlings have engaged in gaslighting on the definition of recession throughout the past week, and it has continued into...

Democrats in Congress have proposed a new spending bill that would allocate $80 billion for the sole purpose of expanding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ostensibly to fight inflation by raising government revenues.

As reported by The Daily Caller, the bill is called the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.” The bill would see the size of the IRS increase as part of a broader effort to increase “taxpayer compliance.” Under the new bill, the IRS would spend an additional $80 billion over the course of the next 10 years, up significantly from its current budget of $13.7 billion, with a primary focus on hiring thousands of new agents, and expanding operations, facilities, and services.

The bill allocates $45 billion for the purpose of hiring even more lawyers and auditors for the collection of taxes and cracking down further on those who fail to pay, with another $25 billion dedicated to increasing operations expenses, such as transportation and office rent. The remainder of the funding will see $5 billion and $3 billion, respectively, dedicated to “Business Systems Modernization” and “Taxpayer Services.”

Proponents of the bill say that the increased spending for resources and hiring will ultimately generate as much as $124 billion in government revenue through improved “tax enforcement,” which, they claim, will subsequently fight inflation. The increase in government revenue will partially go towards funding a massive spending package that Democrats are proposing to combat the broader economic crisis, to the tune of $430 billion.

However, the additional spending on such resources as office space and transportation may prove redundant and a waste of taxpayers’ money. In April, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee that over half of the IRS’ employees are working full-time from home rather than in their offices. In addition, an inspector general report in 2021 found that the agency’s fleet of government-issued vehicles is...