Marjorie Taylor Greene Leaves Congress With Clear Message: ‘Tax Rebellion’ in 2026

Retired Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene he used his last days in office to promote the rhetoric of “rebellion against taxes,” raising federal taxes as a clear sign of a government that, in his view, has stopped serving working Americans.

The speech builds on the affordability campaign for months as he leaves Congress after a public break with the President Donald Trumpand is using his summer policy to push the Home Sales Tax Free Act—his proposal to eliminate tax-free profit limits on the sale of a residence.

“Trump spent the weekend with him [Volodymyr] Zelensky again [Benjamin] “Netanyahu, the Pentagon is failing to investigate again, and the American people are planning a tax revolt because they don’t know what else to do,” Greene wrote in a New Year’s Eve post on X (formerly Twitter).

Just one day earlier, a contributor to Turning Point USA Savannah Hernandez he had suggested that he no longer pay taxes.

“This is how angry the American people are and rightly so, with nearly $40 billion in debt and Social Security going bankrupt by 2033,” Greene said in response. “Now imagine millions of Americans doing this.”

With Greene’s last day in Congress scheduled for January 5, 2026, it’s unclear what’s next for his political career, but he’s leaving a clear message.

‘Too much focus on the American people’

Greene’s latest push for a “rebellious tax” is the culmination of his long political career focused on affordability and cost-of-living pressures for everyday Americans.

In his view, the tax system is a sign of a government that prioritizes foreign wars, corporate interests, and top donors over the working class.

“I’m very focused on the American people and America first,” Greene told Realtor.com® in an exclusive interview in July 2025. “Since I’ve been in Congress, I’ve watched more of our tax dollars go overseas and to special interests, while the American people continue to suffer and suffer and suffer.”

In that interview, Greene cited her personal experience as a small business owner and mother of three as central to her opinion—an argument she made recently when explaining her decision to leave Congress in a recent profile in the New York Times.

The problem, he told Realtor.com, was systemic as there was a perception: “It’s completely against who we are as a country and as Americans to continue to tax people to die.”

Since then, his frustration has extended to the failure of the MAGA organization, in his view, to deliver basic services to the people they claim to represent. While other Republicans were focused on crypto, AI, or geopolitical messaging, Greene was raising the alarm about rising housing costs, declining retirement security, and voters who “can’t make ends meet.”

“We have nearly $40 billion in debt, affordable health care, affordable housing,” he wrote to X in one of his last letters from office. “And the dollar is losing value every day. Meanwhile the government, NO MATTER WHAT PARTY IS LEADING IT, is screwing the American people.”

‘There are many problems in the housing market’

That economic frustration boiled over this summer into one of Greene’s signature policy proposals: a bill that would eliminate the capital gains tax on residential sales. To him, the housing market is a clear example of how federal tax policy is punishing the very Americans it was supposed to help.

“There are a lot of problems in the housing market,” Greene told Realtor.com in July.

Under current law, homeowners can deduct up to $250,000 in capital gains ($500,000 for joint filers) when they sell their primary residence, as long as they meet certain ownership and occupancy criteria.

But house prices have more than doubled in many markets since the freeze in 1997. Today, nearly 1 in 3 homeowners—about 29 million households—have built up more home equity than the current single filer’s foreclosure, according to a study by the National Association of Realtors®. By 2030, that number is expected to grow to 56% of homeowners.

For Greene, that tax burden is wrong as it is a clear obstacle to moving, and by extension, fixing the broader housing crisis.

“I have a construction company, so I’m very familiar with the commercial and residential and real estate market, and it’s stagnant,” Greene said.

Real estate brokers “are heavily penalized because of the large amount of capital gains they’ve made from the capital gains tax,” he said. Empty nesters and baby boomers in his district are “sitting” on homes they would otherwise sell for tax credits.

To his point, research has shown that today’s eviction restrictions disproportionately affect older homeowners, who tend to live longer and have more equity.

Nationally, 31.6% of homeowners over the age of 65 are single-filer, and in eight states and Washington, DC, the majority of seniors are above average. And despite owning similarly priced homes, senior sellers face an average federal tax of $41,232 when they move, compared to $34,732 for the general population.

‘It’s not worth it’

Greene said the idea to eliminate the capital gains tax on primary home sales is based on what he’s heard from voters, especially older homeowners weighing whether to downsize.

“I hear it everywhere I go,” she said. “When we start talking about the ability to sell their house, they say, ‘It’s useless.'”

That reservation, Greene said, keeps long-term owners locked out.

“It is not appropriate for people to pay a fine for capital gains and not be able to close the house they own,” he said.

For him, that makes the story moral and historical.

“Getting rid of it completely is the greatest gift we can give the American people,” he said. “After all, this is a country that was founded on tax revolt.”

The estimated cost of his debt was $6 billion, but Greene argued that it could be easily fixed: “We can cut some foreign aid spending here and there and make sure we’re giving the American people a big gift.”

The message he now takes with him as he leaves Congress. Although the Home Sales Tax Exemption Act has yet to make it out of the House Ways and Means Committee, it’s clear that Greene intends to make sure his message doesn’t die in obscurity.