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Maybe IRS just knows that they're being underfunded precisely to stop them from auditing Congress's rich sponsors, so they proactively self-censor their audits
by clusterfish 6y ago
Maybe IRS just knows that they're being underfunded precisely to stop them from auditing Congress's rich sponsors, so they proactively self-censor their audits to prevent further cuts?
- EGreg 6y agoPretty much this. I don’t understand how Republicans can argue cutting funding to the IRS will save the government’s spending. Instead their goal is to make the tax base richer by cutting taxes of the rich. Many of them are all about cutting taxes to the rich and corporations, doubling down on the trickle down. They even blocked payroll tax cuts to the lower and middle class: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-defeat-two-month-payroll-tax-cut/2011/12/20/gIQAj8RI7O_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-def...