Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

No Federal Income Tax or Tax Filing for People Earning $61,000 or Less Updated July 2026 with the latest IRS, Pentagon, and NEA data. Summary This proposal would eliminate federal individual income tax liability for people earning $61,000 or less in total wage income. Simplifying the tax system for tens of millions of working Americans. While having minimal impact on federal revenue. In practical terms, anyone earning approximately $29.33 per hour or less. Would pay zero federal income tax and would no longer be required to file a tax return each year. Payroll taxes , Social Security and Medicare would still be deducted from paychecks as they are today. Beyond that nothing. No additional federal tax withheld. No annual filing requirement. Rationale Based on IRS data households earning $61,000 or less. Make up approximately 50 to 60 percent of all U.S. tax filers. Yet this group contributes only 3 to 4 percent of all federal individual income tax revenue. Toughly $70 t...

What happened to a 15-year-old Jewish girl at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle is not just deeply disturbing. It is a case study in how antisemitism spreads when institutions fail to confront it  and in how that failure, left unchecked, produces something genuinely terrifying. This is racism. This is hate. This is evil. And the response from the school system made it worse. I call upon the Mayor of Seattle, the Governor of Washington, the State Attorney General, and all city, state, and federal representatives to condemn this attack without hesitation. I urge them to fully investigate every student and staff member involved  and to offer their unwavering support to the victim and her family. The people of Seattle and the entire state of Washington should be horrified that this happened. We should be embarrassed. We should be ashamed. There is an infection of evil spreading in our country, and this case is one of the most chilling symptoms. I fear what the students ...

"In the absence of light, darkness prevails." -- Hellboy (2004) That line has stayed with me for twenty years, because it describes exactly how the worst kinds of harm survive.  Not in plain view, but in the places most people never think to look. Few injustices in this country prove it better than child marriage. Most Americans believe child marriage is something that happens somewhere else in other countries, in other centuries. It is happening here. It is happening now. And in most of the country  it is perfectly legal. The rest of the democratic world is moving. Colombia banned marriage under 18 outright in 2024.  No exceptions for pregnancy, no exceptions for parental consent. In 2023  the United Nations Human Rights Committee formally urged the United States to set 18 as the minimum marriage age in every state with no exceptions. We have not kept pace with our own allies  or with our own stated values. The numbers are not ambiguous. According to...

The Peace Corps was founded on one of America's most idealistic impulses the belief that young Americans, sent abroad in service, could help build a better world. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have served with genuine dedication, courage, and sacrifice. That history deserves respect. But respect for the mission does not require silence about the institution's failures. And the failure we are talking about here is not a management problem or a budget shortfall. It is a decades long pattern of placing female volunteers in dangerous environments, failing to protect them from sexual assault, and then retaliating against or ignoring those who came forward. Over 350 rapes and attempted rapes of female Peace Corps volunteers have been reported since 2009 alone. That number almost certainly understates the true scope because of documented underreporting and retaliation against survivors. This is a moral crisis, not an administrative inconvenience and Congress has known ab...

Before a tech company launches a new product. It runs a beta test. Before a car hits the road. It goes through years of prototyping and safety evaluation. But when it comes to healthcare reform. The political debate has offered Americans only two choices. Leave a broken system untouched or tear down the entire thing overnight. That is why every push for Medicare for All has failed and it will keep failing. This is not a criticism of the goal. The goal is right. The problem has always been the strategy.   Bernie Sanders and others have introduced Medicare for All legislation twelve times since 2003. Every single time it has died in committee. It has never made it to a floor vote not even when Democrats controlled the House, Senate and the White House simultaneously. That should tell us something important. The obstacle is not the idea. The obstacle is the approach. We need a fundamentally different strategy. One that is practical, testable and built to actually pass. That i...

Why Did Paige Bueckers' Stalker Get Probation? Why did the man who stalked Paige Bueckers receive nothing more than probation and a ban from attending games? Why such a light sentence? This individual already had an outstanding warrant for arson. He should have been put behind bars for a very long time. He is clearly dangerous. He is a credible threat to Paige Bueckers' life. And he is not someone who will respect a court-ordered ban. If he shows up at a game one day and opens fire, people will ask why no one saw it coming. They will talk about the warning signs  just as they do after every preventable tragedy. Have we learned nothing? Caitlin Clark. Paige Bueckers. Emma Raducanu. Taylor Swift. All of them have been targeted by stalkers. And they are far from alone. Across sports, music, and public life, women in the spotlight are being hunted, harassed, and threatened by dangerous individuals. These are not isolated incidents. They are warning signs. And the truth is, an...