myrmepropagandist

How is cutting the budget of the people who *collect the money* (the IRS) a way to solve budget problems?

HOW.

Someone explain it.

May 28, 2023 at 3:36pmWeb
Show threadColes Street PotholeMay 28, 2023
@futurebird It’s not. One side doesn’t want to collect any money. And they don’t really care about debt.
Show threadBob DavidsonMay 28, 2023

@futurebird

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-debt-ceiling-is-just-two-santas

The Debt Ceiling Is Just “Two Santas” in Drag

Republicans are dropping their Two Santas bomb right onto President Joe Biden’s head. It worked against Clinton & Obama and the media never caught on. Why wouldn’t they use it again?

The Hartmann Report
Show threadPēteris KrišjānisMay 28, 2023
@futurebird someone said it is? I am honestly asking. We all know that it is purely political stance. Why it is getting treated as valid position on budget balancing?
Show threadMichael ☕️May 28, 2023
@futurebird
"Solving budget problems" is not the GOP's goal.
Show threadPattonMay 28, 2023
@futurebird Plus which, with fewer resources to collect and audit, the IRS administrators will prioritize low-hanging fruit, the cases that are easiest to collect on: not the rich, or big businesses because they have lawyers and like to string cases out; but middle class and low-income taxpayers and small businesses, who can’t afford lawyers.
Show threadLinebyline→mastoart.socialMay 30, 2023
@pattonadams @futurebird Which will lead to those people supporting further cuts to the IRS in the hopes that it will make it too weak to come after them
Show threadJamie BoothMay 29, 2023
@futurebird because you are confusing what they say they want and what they do. This helps rich people who are the biggest GOP supporters. If they wanted to reduce the deficit they would do many things differently.
Show threadSeanMay 29, 2023
@futurebird You forget that most of the GOP benefactors are wealthy businessmen and corporations.
Show threadGreg TitusMay 30, 2023

@futurebird It doesn't help budget problems at all, of course, it only helps rich tax cheats.

That being said, this deal purportedly cuts $1B and reallocates $20B away from the IRS. But this is one year after Biden's Inflation Reduction Act added $80B.

So the GOP managed to trim off about 25% of last year's giant increase, but we should still be much better at collecting owed taxes going forward than we have been in the recent past.