A good thing indeed. If the IRS was used exclusively to recover ill-gotten assets from the ultra-wealthy, the returns would be enough to fund European-style vacations, parental leave, universal healthcare, and more. Americans that have never traveled outside the US have no idea just how badly they're being ripped off.
I just explained to you how you prompted it. You made an emotional appeal along the lines of “poor black kids getting shot by whites for being in the wrong neighbourhood”, which we both know happens extremely rarely and is always faced with widespread public outcry. I countered that by providing actual numbers from the F.B.I. and showing you that the problem is much bigger in black communities (as compared to the same problem in white communities), so much so that the excess deaths surpass *all* homicides committed on black victims by white perpetrators put together, regardless of circumstances. The only appropriate response to someone trying to tug at people’s heartstrings with a distorted view of reality is empirical data. What you purport to be a problem doesn’t happen a lot - there is a bigger problem, and you should address it *first* because it’s *bigger*, so the impact of fixing it will also be larger. That saves more lives.
I hate to break this to you, but it will be weaponised against regular people. Corporations can be dealt with from a desk, these are door-knockers.
Other people having more money than you do does not entail you’re entitled to a slice of that money via a convoluted redistribution pipeline. Not that it matters, since the wealthy already pay the overwhelming majority of taxes anyway, so kind of a moot point there.
This is presuming that corporations and billionaires are honest and forthcoming with the tax man. I for one am not that naive. It takes far more resources and manpower to thoroughly audit the wealthy and powerful, obviously, but the return per dollar spent is exponentially greater. The government knows where the real money is, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip just as you can't squeeze a spare billion dollars from a homeless person. I don't have confidence that Biden will go as far as he needs to in this regard, but beginning the process of expansion is nonetheless appreciated in case we get a more progressive president to properly utilize the IRS in the future.
Right, so when they do start knocking on people’s doors and don’t put fire to the feet of these corporations you speak of (or don’t do it to a level you’d find satisfactory), do I get to say “I told you so” or will you fight me then too? I just need to know how to name this item in my reminders.
There's nothing that could possibly change in regards to collecting taxes from the working class, the IRS already has more than enough resources to do that effectively. The only goal in trying to keep it small is to prevent it from going after people with the resources to push back.
It's a couple sentences, I'm sure you understood the message. The rich steal from the nation because they know they can get away with it. The poor pay their taxes because they know they can't.
A lawsuit has already been filed in Florida to remove his eligibility for office under the 14th amendment, and even members of the conservative Federalist Society concur.
You're not so sure any more now that he's been indicted on nearly a hundred severe criminal charges? Yes, he's obviously bad for America, as he wants to end democracy. The US will not abide by dictators or kings, we'd sooner fall into anarchy.
I understood perfectly, I just rephrased it to save both of us some time. Corporations have billions of dollars and an army of lawyers, small business and private individuals do not. Expansion of the IRS will primarily affect the little guys, and you know this very well - that’s all I’m pointing out.
The wealthy are the only one who can pay however little they want to pay, the rest have no choice but to bear the full burden.
Precisely, which is why a letter is all it takes to collect from the latter. The IRS is totally incapable of collecting from the former without more resources and manpower, let alone going after them for past tax evasion.
That’s not how tax burden works. The top 1% of filers account for 22% of all income tax revenue. The top 50% of filers account for 97.7% of all income tax revenue. If the bottom 50% of filers paid nothing at all, the government wouldn’t even notice the missing 2.3%. It is my opinion that the rate for the bottom 50% of the income scale should be 0 - they should keep all of their money because they don’t have enough for a meaningful contribution anyway and any dollar saved by them is more impactful than if they did have the means. In fact, I would argue that it would change their circumstances over time in a measurable way.
With Biden you have to change your pronoun to get the job you want.
Give me a break dude, Biden is as centrist/establishment Democrat as they come. Society progresses at its own rate regardless of who is president, anyway.
It's a hard sell trying to convince me the IRS is raiding businesses with a couple hundred bucks in back taxes due. If by "small businesses" you mean "fronts for money laundering," then sure.
IRS raids primarily affect small businesses. They pull up like SWAT teams, confiscate documents, seize accounts and leave. They don’t pull up to Apple HQ with guns and tactical gear, they do it to regular people. Always have. They deal with corporations politely, over phone and e-mail. Here’s one (of many) examples I see when I do the most basic of Google searches. That’s how a raid looks like.
Don’t expect seizures in the billions from a handful of entities - that simply doesn’t happen. The preferred method has always been death by a thousand cuts - you need *a lot* of agents to seize millions when you’re doing it a couple grand at a time. Those people can’t defend themselves, so they’re easy pickings. Have fun waiting for your money to be returned in 10-15 years’ time, or quite possibly never returned at all.
Really making sure those billionaires pay their fair share. We’ll see how Biden’s “new IRS” fares. Prognosis is not good, but hey.
