When President Joe Biden pleaded for Congress to increase the budget of the Internal Revenue Service by more than $80 billion he claimed that he would use that money to go after “the rich.” Well, he got his money. So did he fulfill his promise?
It turns out, “no” is the answer to that.
When he was angling for the huge expansion in IRS funding to hire nearly 87,000 new IRS agents, he claimed, without any foundation, that his new suite of agents would be put to use auditing “the rich” to squeeze more cash out of them. He claimed that he would only target people making more than $400,000 a year and would make rich people pay “their fair share,” as The Federalist reported.
The media was more than happy to play up Biden’s unfounded proclamations. Indeed, Bloomberg has continued to push Biden’s IRS propaganda to this day.
Only a month ago, the news outlet claimed that Biden’s bigger IRS budget is meant to “[build] up its enforcement efforts on wealthy individuals and companies that aren’t paying what they owe.”
Yeah because only you morons would believe anything someone says, instead of seeing it for yourself and then believing. Actions speak louder than words, or did you morons forget that to? Why take someone’s word who is a known liar? See it for yourself and then decide. You know damn well why they want more IRS agents. To take more of you rmoney. You know why they keep lowering the reporting limit to the IRS. TO keep track of you. Soon, it will be dwindled down to 1 dollar. You withdraw one dollar and they will report on you. You own goddamn money at that.
Like I said, you all will go along to get along all the way to your grave or bankruptcy. I guess you will have to lose everything before you will believe it huh?
The author use misinterpreting the data. If you click through to the article the numbers are provided and they make clear that the audits are being applied more to the wealthy. 63% of audits were of people earning less than $200,000/year, while the percentage of people earning less than $200,000 is around 88%, so that’s a disproportionately low rate of audits for those earning under $200,000.
I wish they would send half of those “agents” over to the Social Security Agency and help with their back log of cases. I applied for my SSDI almost two years ago. When I ask for an update on my case. I keep being told that since Covid 19, they are short staffed and there is an extreme back log of cases. The only cases they are fast tracking is if you have stage four cancer.
It’s been that way long before Covid. My son was over 2 years getting hearing.