IRS Strategic Plan Vows To Amp Up Audits of the Rich

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It’s about damn time.

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Couldn’t find a cat pic. This will have to do.

While we’re at it, how about auditing this a-hole first? Or Frist.

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Republicans were less enthusiastic, calling the plan “big government at its worst,”

Taking steps that would empower the government to assure that its citizens “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s” violates their sincerely held religious beliefs.

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Flattering, but, “Ew!”

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Happy Easter

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Not convinced a lack of funding had much do with the tiny percentage of rich people audited.

There’s a few billion in rich people tax-cheating proceeds & fines that could have funded more future audits.

And then more convictions, fines and proceeds, which then affords more audits…

Kind of like a reverse pyramid-scheme.

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A “Pyramid scheme” that Sphinx to high heaven.

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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“Get off the abortion conversation!” he exclaimed before ranting, "Women have a whole lot more other issues than just abortion
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Remember when the magats were saying Dobbs was just so individual states could decide the abortion issue and there would be no attempt at a national abortion ban?

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Meanwhile, in “dumbest-man-in-congress” news:

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No surer way of making the US go commie than by punishing the job-creating rich for their hard work and yachts er sacrifice.

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If the GOP is against funding the IRS they are the “pro-crime” party.

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You could strike the word “if.”

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The IRS is a well-known woke commie anti-America George Soros-funded radical Antifa groomer organization. With pizza.

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The IRS must claw back money from cheats AND prosecute for tax evasion. Simply saying “My bad” and writing a check to the government doesn’t cut it. Cheating is a way of life for many wealthy people and we have carried them on our backs for way too long.

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If there is one thing that we accomplished, it is a reckoning with the shift between a unified GOP and a unified MAGA.

MAGA wants the rich to exploit everyone…even Magats :crazy_face:

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