3 ms·
Are you suggesting they should completely give up auditing middle-income taxpayers? That feels like demanding the police should stop all road traffic monitoring
by pavlov 4y ago
Are you suggesting they should completely give up auditing middle-income taxpayers? That feels like demanding the police should stop all road traffic monitoring because it targets regular people who are just trying to get somewhere by car.
If the law isn’t enforced for a particular group, it doesn’t exist for them. But completely even and fair enforcement is an ideal that’s usually impossible to reach — the traffic cops only catch a small minority of speeders and drunk drivers.
- cultureswitch 4y agoThe analogy doesn't really work though. Deliberately investing less IRS money into checking low capital individuals doesn't actually cause damage if it means there's more high net accounts being investigated. There's tax waste in the system no matter what you do. The question is where it is preferable for this waste to occur. It is vastly preferable for the whole economy that the people who are most likely to get away with fraud are also the ones with the lowest net wealth.
- Jochim 4y agoIf you see a car-jacking and a car with one of it's lights out you don't leave the first one to go after the second.