Leave Us Alone with Grover Norquist

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is an absolute dumpster fire. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave the agency a 6-month deadline to disclose how they would spend the additional $80 billion in funding provided by Congress. Still, the IRS missed the deadline and doesn't appear worried. Taxpayers deserve increased transparency and accountability from the IRS to ensure that our tax dollars are used...

Inflation is running rampant in Joe Biden's America and Senate Democrats recently announced a $3.5 trillion spending packing, which they hope will be paid for by aggressive IRS enforcement.   Join us for the latest episode of Grover Norquist's Leave Us Alone podcast where Grover will discuss what Biden's policies mean for American taxpayers.   Leave Us Alone with Grover Norquist is a weekly video...

In this episode of Leave us Alone, Grover will be interviewing Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, about COVID-19 and what lessons we should learn about pandemics and government policy. Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment and a nationally syndicated columnist. American Commitment is dedicated to restoring and protecting America's core...

The misleadingly-named "Protecting the Right to Organize" (PRO) Act would dramatically increase Big Labor's power at the expense of the American worker. The bill is a grab-bag of liberal priorities that would kill small businesses and threaten millions of American jobs. Yet the PRO Act is only one component of President Joe Biden's war on worker freedom. ATR President Grover Norquist and Open Comp...

David Chipman, President Biden's pick to lead the ATF, recently confirmed his support for a $200 gun tax, which also applies to magazines of over ten rounds, and a ban on AR-15s. Joe Biden and his administration would force semiautomatic rifle owners to either participate in a gun buyback program or register their firearm under the National Firearms Act, which requires a $200 tax payment. This wou...

President Joe Biden wants to hire 86,852 new IRS agents, which would more than double the agency's workforce. Even Obama-era IRS chief John Koskinen – a longtime advocate of increasing the IRS budget – thinks President Joe Biden's proposal to increase IRS funding by $80 billion is too much. Rather than fix the agency's longstanding mismanagement, ineptitude and abuse problems, Biden's approach wil...

President Biden announced his "American Jobs Plan" – a two trillion dollar spending boondoggle meant to target all sorts of infrastructural issues. ATR President Grover Norquist and Digital Liberty's Katie McAuliffe examine how the President's Plan will impact technology and broadband.

Progressive lawmakers, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), recently rolled out an expanded form of the Green New Deal that includes funding to hire 1.5 million uniformed climate activists to serve in the "Civilian Climate Corps." The hall monitors of the Green New Deal. Ocasio-Cortez's call for a Civilian Climate Corps is an attempted revival of the Civilian...

Raising the corporate rate to 25%, as some Democrats are calling for, would leave America with a rate higher than many foreign competitors and harm American workers, businesses, and investment. Yet, Voters believe the US corporate rate should be at or below the rates of our foreign competitors – including China -- and believe that raising taxes on businesses could ship existing jobs overseas and r...