Posted on 01/10/2023 10:51:56 AM PST by Red Badger
“More Freedom, Less Government, and We are Just Getting Started,” Lauren Boebert announced before she cast her vote for the first bill for this congress. She announced the first bill is two pages long, one subject and zero earmarks, and “it will help stop the harassment of the American citizens by prohibiting those 87,000 agents from ever being hired. That’s conservative governance at its finest.”
The vote to repeal the Democrat’s plan to hire 87,000 new IRS agents was unanimous. Speaker McCarthy tweeted “House Republicans just voted unanimously to repeal the Democrat’s army of 87,000 IRS agents. This was our very first act of the new congress because the government should work for you, not against you. Promises made. Promises kept.”
The timing to repeal the increase in agents at the IRS comes at the same time as the Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) releasing records given to them by the IRS, providing an overview of 2022 audits. What the records show is startling. A common campaign promise by Democrats is that they are going to make millionaires pay their “fair share,” yet the demographic that saw the most audits last year is the low-income taxpayers. Audits that can be handled via mail, called correspondence audits, are easier and less expensive to conduct, so the agency frequently relies on correspondence audits which are commonly used with low-income payers. The Reason noted that the audit target is often surrounding a tax credit that is “easy to get wrong.” The earned income tax credit can be confusing and is often available to families in the low-income bracket.
Democrats added $80 billion in IRS funding to The Inflation Reduction Act, which they passed in August 2022. And even though the justification around the funding was to catch millionaires and billionaires, and those making less than $400,000 would not see an increase in IRS harassment, those assurances were not written into the thousands of pages included in the Act.
Partisan, divisive politicking, where groups are separated and polarized, is the way the leftist agenda works. This time the millionaires were the enemy, other times, white males have been the enemy. But the goal is to take Americans’ focus off of those who are actually causing harm, which are elected officials and their unelected staff.
Representative Thomas Massie summed it up well, “Dems say IRS needs $80 billion more to hire 87,000 MORE agents to improve customer “service” at the IRS. Depends on what your definition of “service” is!
#1 best way to balance the budget: Don’t collect taxes.
That makes no sense. The feds are already running a $1.4 trillion deficit.
This is good.
This Republican bill would increase the national debt that by 114 billion over the next decade.
Will the Senate also pass it? Will Biden sign it?
If not, can it have any effect?
Say WHAT?
All the democrats didn't vote for this.
The bill, which is unlikely to see action in the Democratic-controlled Senate, passed in a party-line 221-210 vote on Monday evening.
Unanimous Pubbies.................
What you said.
Waste of time. Won’t pass Senate.
Low income? Well, that’s where all the money is, right?
Sounds good and looks good, however they just gave up all of their leverage and power with the porkulus bill a couple weeks ago. It is going nowhere.
The only leverage the House until October is the Debt Ceiling
No and no. These bills are all theater that will have no effect. Watch when the gubmint is about to shut down over funding and McCarthy and his RINO clan will cave to whatever continuing resolution dems want.
Virtue, professed by frauds, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Not a surprise. Low income taxpayers are ‘low hanging fruit’. They are easy to go after. They don’t have the money or the contacts to defend against the tax man, so they are the ‘go to’ people for revenue.
Bezos, Musk, Soros, Suckerberg, Bill-zebub Gates, etc. all have the money and contacts to fight. The little guy does not.
While I am sure that there is officially, no quota (just like cops, wink, wink), if you don’t ‘collect’ enough, I’m sure you get dumped.
lowering the threshold for reporting online sales using third party payers, from $20k and 200 sales to $600 and 1 sale has hit many folks trying to make ends meet.
"Dad" is always the enemy. Giving their misfit voters a chance to get back at him is the Democrats' reason for existence.
I've never tangled with the IRS...I've two stepped with them a time or two though.
And fwiw...I am armed.
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