Politics & Campaign
NewsOnScale Staff
October 23, 2026
JJ Johnson, declared 2028 presidential candidate and founder of AMILLI AI, Corp., released his economic freedom platform today — a sweeping set of proposals that would fundamentally restructure the relationship between the federal government and the American people.
Every item on the platform shares the same logic: the federal government has built mechanisms to extract money, control, and freedom from ordinary Americans. Those mechanisms serve concentrated interests. They end.
End the IRS. Eliminate the income tax.
The federal income tax did not exist until 1913. Before it the United States built the transcontinental railroad, fought the Civil War, and became an industrial power without taxing a single dollar of personal income. The IRS employs 80,000 people whose sole function is extracting money from citizens and enforcing a tax code so complex no single person understands it. Americans spend 6 billion hours per year on tax compliance. That ends. Every dollar of every paycheck returns to the worker who earned it.
Eliminate the capital gains tax.
Investment returns are taxed twice — once when the money was earned and once when the investment grows. The capital gains tax punishes risk, punishes investment, and punishes the decision to build rather than consume. It ends.
Eliminate the death tax and all inheritance taxes.
A family spends a lifetime building a farm, a business, or a piece of land. Every dollar was already taxed. When the builder dies the government arrives and demands up to 40% before the children can inherit what their parents built. Farms are broken up. Small businesses are liquidated. Generational wealth is destroyed. It ends.
Audit the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve has never been fully and independently audited. A partial audit in 2011 revealed $16 trillion in secret loans to banks and foreign financial institutions during the 2008 crisis. No American voted for those loans. No congressional authorization was obtained. A full independent audit will be conducted and the results will be made public.
Audit Fort Knox.
The US government claims to hold 8,133 metric tons of gold. The last independent audit was in 1953 — over 70 years ago. No sitting president, no independent auditor has fully verified it since. Americans deserve to know what backs their currency. A full audit of all US gold reserves will be conducted and the results will be made public.
End unconstitutional license requirements.
The government requires licenses to braid hair, sell flowers, teach yoga, and give city tours. These licenses have nothing to do with public safety. They exist to protect incumbents from competition by making market entry prohibitive for people without resources. Any license requirement that cannot demonstrate a direct connection to public health or safety will be eliminated.
End the wars.
The United States has been in continuous military conflict since 2001. Twenty five years. Trillions of dollars. Thousands of American lives. The defense contractors profit. The soldiers and their families pay. American troops come home. The military's mission returns to defending the United States — not maintaining permanent occupation of countries that pose no direct threat to American security.
Defund DCF Title IV-D and IV-E federal incentive funding.
Federal law financially rewards states for removing children from their homes and maximizing child support collections. The more children placed in foster care the more federal money the state receives. The more child support collected the more federal matching funds flow in. This creates institutional pressure to separate families not because children are in danger but because removal generates revenue. The financial incentive for family separation ends.
What ties all of this together
This is not a left platform or a right platform. Ending the income tax benefits every working American. Ending the wars returns soldiers to their families. Auditing the Federal Reserve is a demand that crosses every political boundary because inflation — the hidden tax the unaudited Fed creates — affects every American who holds a dollar.
The question this platform asks is simple: who does the government serve?
Right now it serves the banks that lobbied for the Federal Reserve in 1913. The defense contractors that profit from endless war. The licensing boards that protect incumbents from competition. The child welfare agencies that are paid per removal.
A JJ Johnson administration serves the people who pay for it.
The full Economic Freedom platform is available at NewsOnScale.com.
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