IRS Targets Poor Americans, because Harassing Wealthy Too Costly

Citizens for Self-Governance ^ | October 7, 2019 | Mark Meckler

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You might want to sit down for this one.

If you thought the IRS was just a necessary yet uncomfortable part of American life, here’s some more evidence that it’s simply an arm of the United States government that deserves to be excised.

The IRS just admitted that it audits the working poor at about the same rate as the wealthiest 1 percent. Here’s why, according to ProPublica:

"…the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39 percent of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are 'the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,' Rettig’s report says.

"On the other hand, auditing the rich is hard. It takes senior auditors hours upon hours to complete an exam. What’s more, the letter says, 'the rate of attrition is significantly higher among these more experienced examiners.' As a result, the budget cuts have hit this part of the IRS particularly hard.

"For now, the IRS says, while it agrees auditing more wealthy taxpayers would be a good idea, without adequate funding there’s nothing it can do. 'Congress must fund and the IRS must hire and train appropriate numbers of [auditors] to have appropriately balanced coverage across all income levels,' the report said."

[Chickensoup]

IIRC the IRS hired thousands under Obama.

Now they are using the eat the rich ploy for more funding.

The minute you spit Lois Lerner up to the masses then we talk about money.

[Taxman]

We need to repeat this as often as we can - take it viral!

“We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.”

[higgmeister]

The earned income tax credit is rife with fraud...the IRS needs to look at it/audit even more!

Many years ago when I first started working, when income tax credit first began and nobody even knew what it was, I received a letter and a check from the IRS to tell me that I had neglected to claim it. I suspect many of those so called audits of the poor will fall into that category. Democrat socialists giving away free money at our expense.

[mo]

why need we rifle through one anothers bank accounts, property and automotive titles, medical expenses etc to fund the country in the 21st century?

[TBP]

Because the success of “progressives” depends on keeping a permanent underclass, ever expanding. They NEED to keep the poor poor. If the poor stop being poor, it hurts Lefties, and they will NOT allow that.