{"id":434,"date":"2026-04-22T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/?p=434"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:48:02","slug":"promises-to-the-people-billions-to-contractors-the-illusion-of-abolishing-the-irs-amid-a-massive-surge-in-war-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/promises-to-the-people-billions-to-contractors-the-illusion-of-abolishing-the-irs-amid-a-massive-surge-in-war-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises to the People, Billions to Contractors: The Illusion of Abolishing the IRS Amid a Massive Surge in War Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the commander-in-chief-devil announced a 300% increase in defense spending, planned for at least the rest of this year. He added that this has been in the works behind closed doors since the turn of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Companies announced as partners include Honeywell Corp, Northrop Grunman, Boeing, Raytheon, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and L3 Harris Technologies. And it is telling who benefits, and who pays, is it not?<\/p>\n<p>With the exceptions of Boeing, whose stock has remained essentially flat these past 3 months, and Raytheon which is a private company, each of these other named players has benefited to the tune of tens of billions of TAXPAYER dollars in the form of contracts, hundreds of billions in total. PLUS, stocks are up, and up big, up huge, as the old buffoon would say. Minimum 19% in the case of Honeywell,, nearly 50% for Lockheed, again, in the past 3 months. Of course, some have benefited those without a soul who stepped up investments in manufacturers of weapons of war, in anticipation of the slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, yesterday, the bait that was offered to the huddled masses was the outright lie and illusion of this guy and this gang abolishing the IRS since we&#8217;re making all this money on tariffs and now, Venezuela\u2019s oil. Anybody who knows the macroeconomic circumstances of this government and this economy knows this is a complete line of crap, both insincere and impossible. Just defense spending alone, not to mention the total cost of government. With all its pork and all its subsidies destined for corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, and C-Levels and Board Members of the most powerful, and often corrupt mt of corporations, especially transnational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>But still, there are those who cling to selfish hope, which is deliberately meant to justify ongoing imperial conquest abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Up US!<\/p>\n<p>Truth2Power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the commander-in-chief-devil announced a 300% increase in defense spending, planned for at least the rest of this year. He added that this has been in the works behind closed doors since the turn of the year. Companies announced as partners include Honeywell Corp, Northrop Grunman, Boeing, Raytheon, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and L3 Harris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testlinktwo.live\/projects\/Truth2Power\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}