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8 minutes ago, chare said:

Thank you for posting, however I was more interested in @MaybeeRN's response; and I must say he or she didn't disappoint 

I know, right?

Youse guys are way ahead of me✌️

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38 minutes ago, subee said:

I have a friend who is an over-busy accountant and former Republican.  She is delighted with the addition of the IRS workers because no one answered the phone (well, practically) during the 4 years of Trump when so many rule changes occurred.  Made their jobs in her office hellish.  I wonder of the MAGA heads who complain the most are the ones who haven't paid their taxes.

Actually, Trump doubled the standard deductions, which made tax filings much easier for most Americans who are smart enough to not use a tax accountant. 

 

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The point of concern is that they are using a trope designed to keep magaphiles at peak adrenaline. The result could very well be to trigger some ammosexual magaphile out there to go hunting. It’s already happened to the FBI. I’m finding it hard to believe that it’s not deliberate.

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15 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Actually, Trump doubled the standard deductions, which made tax filings much easier for most Americans who are smart enough to not use a tax accountant. 

 

What’s that got to do with tax cheats?

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Just now, heron said:

What’s that got to do with tax cheats?

What does the post I was replying to have to do with tax cheats?

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

What does the post I was replying to have to do with tax cheats?

Did you see Trump's name and then stop reading the post you replied to? She mentioned people who don't pay their taxes (cheats) in her last sentence. 

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4 hours ago, heron said:

Ummm … taxes are entirely a matter of law and breakers of those laws go to jail. IRS agents are tasked with enforcing those laws =  law enforcers = law enforcement. In this country, law enforcement goes armed.

I suspect that the willingness to bear arms was part of the standard agent job description for a while, but I don’t know for sure.

Certain IRS agents have always been permitted to carry guns.  I can't find out if IRS agents on Elliot Ness's team did, but guns or not, they got their guy and if they did carry guns, it seems a logical choice to me.

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Senator Grassley's Fox News comments that "IRS Strike Force coming in with loaded AK15's already loaded ready to shoot some small business person in Iowa"   just add to conservatives being fed violence against the government.

 

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It would be interesting to find out who comprises the majority of enforcement targets since IRS funding was cut starting in 2010. They have been cut by $2 billion since 2010.

I’d be willing to bet it hasn’t been the Jeff Bezos or Elon Musks of the world.

I’d be willing to bet that it’s been the very same small businesses that the GOP claims to protect. They can’t afford to target the big players, so they keep their numbers up by going after small fry. All courtesy of the GOP, I believe … the very same party who claim to be on their side … imagine that!

FYI there’s an interesting article on “the gutting of the IRS” on propublica.org. I haven’t had time to finish it yet. Pretty interesting so far.

The IRS needs to go after more of the financial lawbreaking that’s been so well sheltered for the last 22 years.

I’m not talking about new taxes. I’m talking about flat-out fraud - like all the folks who collected millions from Covid relief funds that they then used to finance their own lifestyles.

Imagine using the fines and back taxes to take down the deficit, fund ecological clean-up, beef up public transportation, support displaced auto, coal and oil workers … the list goes on.

So … cui bono? Who benefits from having the IRS kneecapped? Seems like answering that question might illuminate just who is likely to be behind the current warmongering over armed IRS agents.

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@heron 

BINGO 

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1 hour ago, heron said:

It would be interesting to find out who comprises the majority of enforcement targets since IRS funding was cut starting in 2010. They have been cut by $2 billion since 2010.

I’d be willing to bet it hasn’t been the Jeff Bezos or Elon Musks of the world.

I’d be willing to bet that it’s been the very same small businesses that the GOP claims to protect. They can’t afford to target the big players, so they keep their numbers up by going after small fry. All courtesy of the GOP, I believe … the very same party who claim to be on their side … imagine that!

FYI there’s an interesting article on “the gutting of the IRS” on propublica.org. I haven’t had time to finish it yet. Pretty interesting so far.

The IRS needs to go after more of the financial lawbreaking that’s been so well sheltered for the last 22 years.

I’m not talking about new taxes. I’m talking about flat-out fraud - like all the folks who collected millions from Covid relief funds that they then used to finance their own lifestyles.

Imagine using the fines and back taxes to take down the deficit, fund ecological clean-up, beef up public transportation, support displaced auto, coal and oil workers … the list goes on.

So … cui bono? Who benefits from having the IRS kneecapped? Seems like answering that question might illuminate just who is likely to be behind the current warmongering over armed IRS agents.

I believe I've read it's the richest and the poorest.  Maybe skewed a bit to the poorest.  But, it's not really that simple.  For example, the "big players" in your example, pay people to do their taxes to their maximum benefit and also be legal.

Most of the wealthy are already following the law.  Better enforcement of them following the law isn't going to amount to a hill of beans.

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Maybe this kind of reporting seems like ancient history...

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/09/08/richest-5-of-americans-choose-not-to-pay-307-billion-in-taxes-each-year-treasury-reports/

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According to the Treasury's report, the top 1% of taxpayers, ranked by income, failed to pay about $163 billion in taxes last year, making up about 28% of total unpaid taxes, while the top 5% evaded about $307 billion, or nearly 53% of the overall sum.

The total underpayment of about $600 billion would translate to $7 trillion in lost tax revenue over the next decade—a "striking" sum equal to about 3% of GDP, or all the taxes paid by the lowest-earning 90% of taxpayers, the Treasury notes.

 

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