By Tom Woods
January 24, 2026
Media personality Jesse Kelly recently shared a screencast video he had made of the previous four days of social media posts by Senator Graham: "I present to you the last 4 days of social media posts from the United States senator who allegedly represents the people of South Carolina."
You can be assured that none of it had anything to do with Americans or their problems, since Senator Graham is bored to death by those things.
Meanwhile, Grok, the AI tool of Twitter/X, informs us:
"Based on X search in 2025, Sen. [Lindsey] Graham posted 0 times about South Carolina, vs. 97 about Ukraine, 99 about Israel, 43 about Iran, 60 about Russia, 40 about Syria, and 19 about China."
Now Graham is upset at what's happened in Syria. You'll never believe it: the neocons cheered the fall of a secular dictator (this story sounds a little familiar, doesn't it?), urged cautious optimism toward a more Islamic regime, andit hasn't worked out!
We all understand the incentive structure at work here: if Graham had to pay a genuine price for his savagery and stupidity, he would engage in less of it. Since he can externalize these costs onto taxpayers, we get a whole lot more of it than we would otherwise.
That one insight accounts for a lot.
There are so many immoral aspects of taxation: first and foremost the moral problem that it's a case of expropriation of peaceful people, but also that it socializes the costs - and thereby encourages an artificially elevated number - of terrible decisions, it undermines capital formation (which would have increased the standard of living), it encourages unproductive behavior as interest groups compete for a share of other people's wealth instead of trying to earn a living honestly by serving their fellow manand the list goes on and on.
In other words, there are ample reasons even apart from the existence of Lindsey Graham to want to pay as little as possible, as if you didn't know that already.
I am constantly surprised at how few people, even those who view the world the way I do, have taken any real steps to minimize their tax liability. They send their documents to their accountant, who dutifully submits them, but there's no plan to actually lower the amount paid.
A brief digression here: I am going to receive angry emails from people explaining to me that the income tax doesn't actually apply to anyone, and that it's an easy thing simply to refrain from paying. Why, it's worked for them!
It's worked for them because they earn $20K per year and it isn't worth going after them.
"But I have an excellent legal argument!" they will say. They think if they appear in the regime's courts with an excellent legal argument, this will cause the regime to say: "You're right. We never noticed that before. Keep your money. Case closed!"
You are not so naive, I presume, dear reader. My six children need me out of prison.
And you and I need to pay as little as possible, for all the reasons I mentioned above. The trouble is, it's difficult to find someone trustworthy to teach you sound and reliable strategies. But the good news is this: ol' Woods has been around a long time, and knows the best of the best.
(For example, remember that fund our friend Larry Lepard manages, and that I recommended to you ? It generated another 7% last month alone. If you followed me and took the plunge on that, well, you're welcome.)
Let's keep every possible dime out of the hands of the savages.
Early-bird special is in effect, but we kick off soon:
