The notion that increased IRS resources would primarily go to crack down on the rich is contrary to current and past IRS practices, as well as basic logic.
▪️The rich use accountants to file taxes. They know precisely how to find all of the legal tax breaks and avenues to shelter income. If audited, they have a professional to defend them. Very few rich people would jeopardize their wealth by violating tax law, especially when they can find legal avenues to lower them.
▪️It’s the poor and working class who are far more likely to cheat on their taxes. The gig workers, tip workers, doing jobs for cash off the books, fledgling small businesses, etc. They have an incentive to hide income from the IRS, but are also much less sophisticated at it, and usually have no one to defend them in an audit.
▪️Thus, if you are an agency trying to find unpaid taxes, fraud is far more likely to be found among poor and working class tax returns, Plus, they will be largely unable or unwilling to defend themselves in a tax case. It’s far more lucrative to target them, that is the reality of the incentives at play.
▪️Note: this isn’t suggesting a moral failing among the poor/working class. Especially if you believe taxation is theft/coercion, not paying taxes is simply trying to keep your own money. But it is a legal failing and something the IRS can take action on.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
