Category: Fuck Republicans

From Darwinfish2:

There are now three guaranteed certainties in this life, Death, Taxes, and Republicans trying to get out of paying taxes. I saw this a couple weeks ago and it got me thinking:

First, I don't know who was "crying" about Elon Musk buying Twitter instead of "solving" world hunger. Yeah, it would have been nice for a guy like Musk to spend some of his excessive dough on projects that would better our surroundings. And he likes to pose as quite the philanthropist, but I think he prefers his vanity projects.

And since when can $80 billion "solve" world hunger? There are far too many factors and variables to make it so that no one is ever hungry again. $80 bil wouldn't make a dent. It may help a select group of people for a finite amount of time, but that's not a solution. A serious solution would look too much like Socialism and that's the last thing people who like this meme would want. Or, it might look like this idea from the 80s:

But I was really more interested in the IRS bit. This Democrat is thrilled that the IRS is getting rejuvenated. The last administration was keen to let the whole organization whither on the vine and die so that the richest among us could still use all the tax lawyers at their disposal to ensure that the national tax burden rested on the rest of us, and not them.

I don't think the IRS is interested in chasing down us commoners for audits. Where's the payoff in that? (Other than enjoying the sadism.)

If I'm a guy working for the IRS and I want to produce results, where do I look? I look where the money is, with the rich, and not with the working stiffs. Chasing down the average citizen is a waste of time and resources. I'd want to be able to say to my boss at review time, "I recovered X-dollars' worth of unpaid taxes," where "X" is the largest number possible.

Republicans know this, probably because their rich donors pound it into their heads, so they want the IRS to be as under-manned, under-funded, and under-equipped as possible. So when the new funding bill wanted to bolster the T-men, they figured they need to get the commoners good and scared about getting audited by gun-packing federal agents. It's the tax equivalent of the "death squads" they trotted out to make everyone afraid of Obamacare, and just as misleading.