Why did the Senate Republicans stand against collecting legally owed taxes?

[mrjurrs]

It is accepted that every one dollar the IRS spends in collecting legally owed taxes generates more than one dollar in tax revenue (I've seen estimates ranging up to 6/1).

Why did the Senate Republicans toss that provision from the supposed bipartisan Infrastructure Bill?

 

[Napoleon]

Republicans are looking for ways to cut costs as Democrats continue to add more and more spending. The issue of chronically underfunding the IRS is not a partisan one.

 

[j brown's body]

Republicans are looking for ways to cut costs as Democrats continue to add more and more spending. The issue of chronically underfunding the IRS is not a partisan one.

Collecting legally owed taxes, which the Reoublicans oppose, would help cut costs.

 

[j brown's body]

It is accepted that every one dollar the IRS spends in collecting legally owed taxes generates more than one dollar in tax revenue (I've seen estimates ranging up to 6/1).

Why did the Senate Republicans toss that provision from the supposed bipartisan Infrastructure Bill?

The Republicans denying the IRS the resources and expertise to collect taxes owed by the rich means they are willing to let it focus on middle class and working class schmuck like you and me.

Thanks, Republicans!

 

[Napoleon]

Collecting legally owed taxes, which the Reoublicans oppose, would help cut costs.

Not by a long shot in the amounts we’re talking about.

 

[Crovax]

**** the IRS

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

www.propublica.org

 

[Rogue Valley]

The GOP is the party of the wealthy and corporations.

They would rather further burden the middle class than have the wealthy pay their fair share.

 

[mrjurrs]

Republicans are looking for ways to cut costs as Democrats continue to add more and more spending. The issue of chronically underfunding the IRS is not a partisan one.

And the R's feel cutting something that generates net positive revenue is the way to fix that issue? Can you show me any D support for this cut?

 

[mrjurrs]

Not by a long shot in the amounts we’re talking about.

They never claimed it would. But they did believe that it would collect an additional $700 billion over 10 years.

 

[mrjurrs]

**** the IRS

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.

www.propublica.org

I don't like them either, but how would you propose we pay for our needs?

 

[Fletch]

The Republicans denying the IRS the resources and expertise to collect taxes owed by the rich means they are willing to let it focus on middle class and working class schmuck like you and me.

Thanks, Republicans!

You think the IRS focuses on $35,000 per year Joe Lunchpail?

 

[Fletch]

The GOP is the party of the wealthy and corporations.

They would rather further burden the middle class than have the wealthy pay their fair share.

That may have been true in the past, but the wealthy and the corporations are now comfortably on the left.

 

[justabubba]

You think the IRS focuses on $35,000 per year Joe Lunchpail?

the problem is they are too short staffed in key positions to focus on joe megabucks

its like a spider web
only the smaller targets get caught
the large ones break through the web and escape

 

[Napoleon]

And the R's feel cutting something that generates net positive revenue is the way to fix that issue? Can you show me any D support for this cut?

Chronically underfunding the IRS has been a bipartisan effort.

 

[justabubba]

Chronically underfunding the IRS has been a bipartisan effort.

correct

those bribes ... i mean campaign contributions ... don't come from those with modest incomes

 

[Napoleon]

They never claimed it would. But they did believe that it would collect an additional $700 billion over 10 years.

Congrats! You’ve found a way to pay for exactly 6 days of Bernie’s single payer proposal. We’ll have to put the kibosh on it after that because, you know, that alone would cost $4 TRILLION per year.

 

[Moderate Right]

It is accepted that every one dollar the IRS spends in collecting legally owed taxes generates more than one dollar in tax revenue (I've seen estimates ranging up to 6/1).

Why did the Senate Republicans toss that provision from the supposed bipartisan Infrastructure Bill?

What? It is Democrats who want to overturn the Republican tax plan that limits SALT deductions to 10K. If democrats are ever successful at doing this, only the rich will benefit.

 

[calamity]

It is accepted that every one dollar the IRS spends in collecting legally owed taxes generates more than one dollar in tax revenue (I've seen estimates ranging up to 6/1).

Why did the Senate Republicans toss that provision from the supposed bipartisan Infrastructure Bill?

GOP is bought and paid for by the elite, and the idiots voting for them who work for a living are retired or collecting disability are too stupid to understand it.

 

[Noodlegawd]

It is accepted that every one dollar the IRS spends in collecting legally owed taxes generates more than one dollar in tax revenue (I've seen estimates ranging up to 6/1).

Why did the Senate Republicans toss that provision from the supposed bipartisan Infrastructure Bill?

Can you provide us a link to an analysis explaining how this has been determined?

Do those calculations count the cost to taxpayers to respond to the additional audits, including audits of people who DON'T owe money?

 

[mrjurrs]

You think the IRS focuses on $35,000 per year Joe Lunchpail?

I don't know, do you think they focus on the top income group?

 

[mrjurrs]

Chronically underfunding the IRS has been a bipartisan effort.

I'll ask you again, can you show me any D support for this cut?

 

[mrjurrs]

Can you provide us a link to an analysis explaining how this has been determined?

Do those calculations count the cost to taxpayers to respond to the additional audits, including audits of people who DON'T owe money?

Funding the IRS Pays Off: Preventing Tax Dodging by Wealthy Filers Is the First Step to Fixing Our Tax Code

Funding the IRS has significantly declined over the last decade, hindering its ability to serve the American people in fundamental ways.

budget.house.gov

 

[Fletch]

I don't know, do you think they focus on the top income group?

IRS audit rates significantly increase as income rises | Internal Revenue Service

Few things can generate as much taxpayer concern, confusion and controversy as an IRS audit.

www.irs.gov

 

[Common Sense 1]

Maybe this?

More Money to the IRS for Predatory Audits? Hell, No​

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/more-money-to-the-irs-for-predatory-audits-hell-no/ ​

Especially when the tax collectors are leaking like a sieve, a $40 billion infusion would make a troubling practice worse. ​

Every other week, it seems, the leftist tax-exempt nonprofit Pro Publica (which poses as a media outlet) publishes another tranche of tax records illegally leaked from the IRS. This disclosure, which is a federal criminal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for every count, invariably targets rich or famous taxpayers. The stories are overhyped (“how dare he claim depreciation!”), but the goal is always the same: Use IRS data which is supposed to be locked down tight to troll the rich or famous in service of higher taxes on the rest of us.

 

[swing_voter]

Even though many of the trump supporters are working class, they were told by the former Rush Limbaugh that the rich shouldn't have to pay taxes and the trump supporters loved Rush Limbaugh.

That's why they don't want to see the IRS funded. Funding the IRS will cost rich people money, and the formerly Rush Limbaugh wouldn't approve.


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