Summary
Mass firings at the IRS under the Trump administration threaten ongoing audits of wealthy individuals and corporations, potentially leading to millions in lost tax revenue.
The cuts primarily impacted employees in the Large Business & International Division, many of whom had extensive tax expertise.
With fewer agents and specialists, complex cases may be prematurely closed, undermining enforcement against high-end tax evasion.
Critics warn this weakens IRS oversight and emboldens tax avoidance among the ultrawealthy.
Gee, that almost sounds like it was intentional.
Not even subtle about it any more.
Friendly reminder that Joe Biden increased resources to the IRS and they recouped billions from wealthy tax cheats.
But he was too old, so we went with an old rapist felon traitor instead.
I would say “why don’t they just focus on rich people and not audit the other 90% of Americans.” But we already know the answer to that one no matter who’s in charge.
They should have cut all IRS investigations except the wealthy.
For every dollar spent on IRS audits for middle America, they get about a dollar back in recovered revenue. For every dollar spent on auditing wealthy Americans, they get about twelve dollars back in recovered revenue. I don’t think these cuts are intended to help balance the budget.
we the poor are not a fucking bank for these lazy bastards that just keep taking all our shit for their own personal financial gain… And they’ll keep taking and taking if we keep letting them, and we’ve been over the limit for some time already It’s past due to push them off of us
And yet, Republicans have been steadily making gains with the working class. With this past election they are now the dominant party for working class voters. It comes down to two things. American voters are deeply ignorant and the Democratic party is pathetically weak and out of touch.
That kind of seems like the opposite of efficiency
Almost like efficiency was never the point.
