Posted on 12/21/2024 5:21:43 PM PST by libh8er
Dumb assessment by a governmen lover.
Where's the denominator? To tell which is more likely, I have to know how many taxpayers there are between $500,000 and $1 million vs. how many over $10 million. Also consider the word "closed": once you get to a certain level of income you might just be perpetually audited and never fully closed, especially if you are politically unfavored.
These people worship government as gods.
They never consider the government agencies have their own special interests, serve detrimental government agendas, and often do much more harm than good.
“Recently, several of the GAO’s reports have concluded that many governmental agencies are not meeting their mission, but the main culprit behind these substandard results is not excessive regulations, but inadequate funding.”
Inadequate funding? Why read the rest of the article?
The entire “progressive” movement is a scam, so there’s that.
As usual for those commies.
For the last century these agencies (the GAO) have coordinated the process of budget management and evaluated the effectiveness of government programs and agencies.Yeah, the GAO worked SO WELL that we have a $37 trillion debt and $2 trillion annual deficits from here to Doomsday.
When was the last time the government actually had a budget? Ten years? Twenty? Of course, the budget and the debt ceiling are meaningless and ineffective hokum only put in place to hoodwink the hoi polloi.
If the GAO truly "evaluated the effectiveness of government programs and agencies" it would have shut down two thirds of the God damned thing. The GAO does nothing but give its imprimatur to Congressional spending and grift. It's a tissue thin glossy veneer of lies that all is well in the government.
You are correct.
” but only closed 2,933 audits of taxpayers who made over $10 million. Essentially, the wealthier a taxpayer was, the less likely that person would be audited.”
Or they don’t audit them because at this level cheating isn’t a thing. The risk/reward ratio is decidely lopsided.
It’s a massive waste of manhours and resources dealing with the topflight accountants and tax attorneys.
Government agencies are full of greed, graft, and unfairness to American taxpayers.
That’s because they’re useful idiots.
The gist of all that sounds like your typical lefty screeching into the sky because he foresees his precious altars to government are about to be destroyed.
Or at that level they have a tax attorney as well as an accountant on retainer. They know the laws.
Fred, graft and unfairness is obviously a basic human tendency that permeates every institution.
It sure does.
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Wow, what a totally unexpected opinion piece from them! Right, DOGE is a scam. The DNC nominating Kamala, not a scam at all.
As usual, projection.
They do get audited a lot.
The swamp is going into defense mode.
That has been my observation as well. The hole left by atheism has to be filled somewhere else.
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