Not Republicans. Congress did. The bill only passed because of a bipartisan vote.
Couldn’t have been accomplished without democrats
Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the group of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they’ll wait to see where public sentiment falls (or more likely how the money feels), and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and “punish” the face of the “losing” side as if he was for the “winning” side all along.
In the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.
Examples:
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they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link
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And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link
As if by design…
So, Republicans are no-so-quietly saying that everyone should cheat on their taxes, or is this just for the rich?
Always just for the rich. When they reduce IRS funding, they audit low hanging fruit because it’s much cheaper
I think game theory stipulates that everyone is wise to cheat on their taxes. The amount the average person usually end up paying in back taxes is less than the potential reward of getting away with it, jail time is almost unheard of, and the more people that cheat, the harder it is for them.
Not saying everyone should do it. But the only reason they have gone after people like Snipes and Stewart were to put the fear into everyday Americans.
Most of us are paid by a company, which is reported to irs. You can’t futz with that. People who get tipped, on the other hand …. There’s nothing but you conscience in the way. Or of course gig workers can play with what they write off, just like any other company. You know, it’s really only those of use paid a salary, whether hourly or annually, who have to follow the rules
You are correct and that’s an excellent demonstration of how fucking broken our tax system is. Notorious tax cheats like Trump should be in jail or be hit by fines many times over the discrepancy. Granted, our tax code is currently so convoluted (thanks Intuit I fucking hate you) that it’s extremely easy to accidentally make a tax error - we should adopt a system like Swedens’ of just precalculating taxes and allowing individuals to submit corrections but there’s a gigantic fucking industry that wants to keep shit as difficult as possible.
America has a lot of really deep problems tied to corruption and greed - UHC was recently highlighted but there are dozens of industries that exist parasitically that we should absolutely dismantle.
Unfortunately those industries have enough money to sway spinless politicians to their cause so getting rid of them is incredibly difficult.
