> For "x" hours of work, the big whales can also potentially bring in a lot more money than a bunch of small minnows. Your article says the opposite: > They [

> For "x" hours of work, the big whales can also potentially bring in a lot more money than a bunch of small minnows. Your article says the opposite: > They [audits of low income people taking the EITC] are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says. They can either hire a lot of cheap low-level examiners to quickly audit a lot of low-income people or a smaller number of expensive examiners to slowly audit big complex returns that are more likely to be correct but have more at stake. They were doing the first one because it recovers more money per enforcement dollar. You can decide that your priority is "audit more rich people" rather than "recover the most money" but that doesn't make them the same thing, or make the first one the only or even default thing they'll do if you give them more enforcement resources.