TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoAmericans failed to pay record $688 billion in taxes in 2021, IRS says. Look for more audits.www.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down14cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareworldwidewave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75arrow-down5·11 months ago The IRS has said it won’t increase audits on households earning less than $400,000 annually. Going after rich tax cheats is beloved by all but Republican politicians and their rich donors. Fund the IRS!
minus-squareMelodiousFunk@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·11 months ago Fund the IRS You can’t find the IRS. The IRS is a government agency. And those are awful. Watch, I’ll prove it: starves agency of funds for years See? They suck. They can barely function. Time to make more cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility! see also: EPA, USPS, ED, HHS, DOT, DOL, FCC, FTC, etc.
minus-squareGuest_User@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI get the republicans are rich and tax cheats. But do you really think only Republicans are going to oppose it? No rich democrats ever cheated on their taxes?
Going after rich tax cheats is beloved by all but Republican politicians and their rich donors. Fund the IRS!
You can’t find the IRS. The IRS is a government agency. And those are awful. Watch, I’ll prove it:
starves agency of funds for years
See? They suck. They can barely function. Time to make more cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility!
see also: EPA, USPS, ED, HHS, DOT, DOL, FCC, FTC, etc.
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I get the republicans are rich and tax cheats. But do you really think only Republicans are going to oppose it? No rich democrats ever cheated on their taxes?