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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only MAGA supports Israel and the safety of the Jewish people.[/quote]

Except when it comes to passing funding?[/quote]

Are you unhappy with the 12 billion package MAGA will deliver?  Does the IRS cut bother you?

Or you could have a clean 12 billion bill and a side of Jew hatred.

Place your bets and votes.[/quote]

Does the deficit matter or not? Because the IRS cut will lead to a blowup of the deficit. [/quote]

You don’t actually understand the details? You just rehash what you read?

So do you actually think we are cutting the 12 billion from the IRS?

Its actually IRS budget was increased in 2022  via IRA by 80 billion!!!!!!!!

So if you cut 12 billion from the 80 billion, tou still get an increased IRS budget of 68 billion over what it was in 2022.  So yeah, don’t be dramatic.[/quote]

But here’s the problem.  For every dollar you cut for the IRS, the revenue the usg brings in is cut by an ADDITIONAL $6.  Over time that makes quite a difference to the deficit, which does need to be addressed.

Cutting IRS funding is not the way to reduce the deficit.  Better to cut other subsidies (ag, fossil fuel). [/quote]

Again,

You are not cutting anything!  You are  just increasing the budget over 2022 levels by 68 billion instead of 80 billion!!!!

[b]Your “facts” refer to is you cut the budget of the IRS for the base 2022 levels, and you still need to provide source of that claim.[/b]

A 68 billion increase will be jus refine.  In fact, they have not even hired 1/10 of the additional agents for the IRS at this point as it’s hard to recruit thousands of new employees.

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Pp here.  I’m going to try one more time.

I actually understand how you arrived at your belief - and I’ll stick with the numbers you’re using.  On the surface, it seems correct.  If we are spending $68 billion instead of $80 billion, and using that remaining $12 billion for Israel, everything should be funky dory.

But.  Here’s the catch.  That $12 billion in the Johnson scenario goes out the door (like a Friday night out - the money is gone - except if you are a defense contractor, in which case it’s going into your personal pocket).

In the scenario where the $12 billion goes to the IRS, the agency uses that money, not only to hire more employees, but also to upgrade computer systems, install AI programs that can identify anomalies, and so forth which results in more revenue for the USG (like exercising which leads to better health).

As for the source of my facts, I refer you to the CBO report.  https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-11/CBO_Estimate_for_the_Israel_Security_Supp_Approp_Act_2024.pdf[/quote]

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