Wall Street Journal Claims Cutting IRS Raises Taxes

Front Page Magazine ^ | April 30, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is what Orwellian economics looks like.

After Biden announced a campaign based around freedom, the Wall Street Journal’s Richard Rubin decided to write a surreal column/op-ed/story (what is this thing even supposed to be) accusing Republicans of raising taxes by proposing to dump Biden’s corrupt green subsidies and the Inflation Increase Act’s IRS boom.

Republicans Effectively Voted to Raise Taxes. They’re Fine With That – WSJ

When dealing with the media, any weasel words added to a sentence means that the whole thing is a lie.

Now you understand the purpose being served by “effectively” in there.

Rubin claims that Republican debt ceiling legislation ” would repeal clean-energy tax credits that Congress created last year. The changes would shrink breaks for wind energy, solar power, hydrogen and electric vehicles, effectively raising taxes on some manufacturers, car buyers and others.”

Cutting subsidies does not raise taxes. If I stop giving you free money, I’m not raising taxes on you.

The entire green industry is a parasitic bloodsucker feeding off consumers. Energy bills, car costs and everything else goes up when you add ‘green’ to the equation.

Getting rid of green subsidies is a fantastic boost to everyone’s bottom line. Want cheaper energy and cars? Throw all the Al Gore stuff out the window.

The article/op-ed gets even more surreal when claiming that Republicans “rescinding new enforcement funding for the Internal Revenue Service”… “would lower tax revenue by $191 billion, so when laid against the energy-tax changes, the bill still raises taxes overall.”

You know you’re in properly 1984 territory when claiming that cutting the IRS raises taxes. And so boosting the IRS must cut taxes.

[combat_boots]

So banal.

The WSJ has become crass in its vanity

Bein jus lil ole me from the holler, what would I know, reckon

[frank ballenger]

The IRS has higher overhead now. Buying lots of ammo for their automatic weapons and sidearms.

Reuters article:
U.S. IRS to hire nearly 20,000 staff over two years with $80 billion in new funds
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Yes, IRS did purchase nearly $700000 in ammo in early ...

VERIFYThis.com
Jul 18, 2022 — Yes, between March 1 and June 1, 2022, the IRS ordered $696,000 in ammunition, a spokesperson confirmed to VERIFY.

[griswold3]

You ain’t seen nothing yet.

[mewzilla]

Update...

Tom DiNapoli
@NYSComptroller
State tax collections for April 2023 totaled just over $10.9B – $7.2B, or 39.9%, lower than a year ago.
osc.state.ny.us
New York State Financial Reporting
6:40 PM · May 15, 2023