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We've underfunded the IRS, and investigating the rich is really hard, because the rich can pay for armies of tax lawyers. You can't go after them without substa
by roywiggins 7y ago
We've underfunded the IRS, and investigating the rich is really hard, because the rich can pay for armies of tax lawyers. You can't go after them without substantial resources, and anti-government extremists have teamed up with pro-business extremists to throttle the IRS' enforcement capabilities.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted
- a_bitcoin 7y agoThe alliance between individualists and corporatists is the most bizarre thing about the US to me.
- roywiggins 7y agoThe corporations have the money and the "individualists" have the rhetoric that can persuade voters. It's a match made in hell.