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I have a hardtime taking an article seriously that makes wild claims such as "But the IRS has been starved for decades by anti-tax extremists". Show me the evid

I have a hardtime taking an article seriously that makes wild claims such as "But the IRS has been starved for decades by anti-tax extremists". Show me the evidence.

callmeal 5y ago
>https://www.atr.org/trump-budget-cuts-irs-funding-239-million https://www.atr.org/trump-budget-cuts-irs-funding-239-millio... President Donald Trump's 2018 budget blueprint is out, and it wisely cuts IRS funding by $239 million. Compared to pretty much any metric where increasing their budget will increase tax collection. Mainly because most tax fraud happens where no one is looking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-deficits-or-fund-bidens-spending-plans-give-the-irs-more-money/2021/03/25/2959bcd8-8d90-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-defic... The number of IRS revenue agents — the auditors qualified to examine complex returns — has plummeted 43 percent over the past decade, according to a report from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Audit rates of those filing these complex returns have also sharply declined. For example, the number of millionaires who were audited in fiscal 2020 was about a quarter of the number from fiscal 2012. Accordingly, these IRS audits turned up unreported tax bills of $1.2 billion last year, about a quarter of the $4.8 billion found in fiscal 2012.
- literallyaduck 5y ago
  That doesn't show decades. The tone of the article sets up to divide readers. IRS spends 11 billion, 300 million is barely a speed bump, is the money being spent correctly? IRS has been used as a tool of intimidation and oppression to target political enemies of the ruling oligarchy. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/irs-scandal-fast-facts/ar-BB19jlV0 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fac... They have deep corruption, the tax code needs reform, and justice deferred is justice denied. Gas lighting and blaming the victims of political intimidation is not acceptable.
  - jhgb 5y ago
    Moving the goalposts much? "Nobody's been doing that." "On the contrary, here are some examples." "Yes, but those are justified!"
burkaman 5y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted

I have a hardtime taking an article seriously that makes wild claims such as "But the IRS has been starved for decades by anti-tax extremists". Show me the evidence.

callmeal 5y ago

>https://www.atr.org/trump-budget-cuts-irs-funding-239-million https://www.atr.org/trump-budget-cuts-irs-funding-239-millio... President Donald Trump's 2018 budget blueprint is out, and it wisely cuts IRS funding by $239 million. Compared to pretty much any metric where increasing their budget will increase tax collection. Mainly because most tax fraud happens where no one is looking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-deficits-or-fund-bidens-spending-plans-give-the-irs-more-money/2021/03/25/2959bcd8-8d90-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-shrink-defic... The number of IRS revenue agents — the auditors qualified to examine complex returns — has plummeted 43 percent over the past decade, according to a report from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Audit rates of those filing these complex returns have also sharply declined. For example, the number of millionaires who were audited in fiscal 2020 was about a quarter of the number from fiscal 2012. Accordingly, these IRS audits turned up unreported tax bills of $1.2 billion last year, about a quarter of the $4.8 billion found in fiscal 2012.

literallyaduck 5y ago
That doesn't show decades. The tone of the article sets up to divide readers. IRS spends 11 billion, 300 million is barely a speed bump, is the money being spent correctly? IRS has been used as a tool of intimidation and oppression to target political enemies of the ruling oligarchy. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/irs-scandal-fast-facts/ar-BB19jlV0 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fac... They have deep corruption, the tax code needs reform, and justice deferred is justice denied. Gas lighting and blaming the victims of political intimidation is not acceptable.
- jhgb 5y ago
  Moving the goalposts much? "Nobody's been doing that." "On the contrary, here are some examples." "Yes, but those are justified!"

burkaman 5y ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted