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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃
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HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no.  On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.  [/quote]

The IRA did a lot more than adding employees to the IRS. [b]By the way, they did not double the size. Because of cuts, they literally don't have enough people to process tax returns. They also needed to add IT people and fill existing vacancies.[/b] Here's more:

Prescription drug price reform: One of the most significant provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act will allow Medicare to negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs, bringing down the price beneficiaries will pay for their medications. Medicare recipients will have a $2,000 cap on annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, starting in 2025.

IRS tax enforcement: The IRS has been sounding the alarm for years about being underfunded and being unable to deliver on its duties. The bill invests $80 billion in the nation’s tax agency over the next 10 years.

Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy extension: Currently, medical insurance premiums under the ACA are subsidized by the federal government to lower premiums. These subsidies, which were scheduled to expire at the end of this year, will be extended through 2025. Approximately 3 million Americans could lose their health insurance if these subsidies weren’t extended, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Energy security and climate change investments: The bill includes numerous investments in climate protection, including tax credits for households to offset energy costs, investments in clean energy production and tax credits aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

If you are a person who complains about China, you must understand that we need to invest in technologies that will help us because energy independent. [/quote]
+1 to the bolded part.
The reason they were underfunded in the first place is because the GQP, whenever they were able, cut the IRS's budget. Cutting the IRS budget means less audits of the rich, which de facto, is a tax cut for the rich.
The $87 billion over 10 years is to get it to the funding level that is should have.[/quote]

To be fair, the last three Presidents, including Obama, all reduced the IRS budget over their terms in office.  The IRS has had to deal with shrinking budgets since the end of Clinton administration.

The increases that were granted in the IRA allow them to restore the staffing levels back to the 1990's.  If the 38K staff that is a right-wing talking point, more than half of those are restaffing of empty positions that have been empty for years because they haven't had the funds to staff positions lost through regular attrition (people leaving federal service, retiring, etc).  Right now, part of why the federal government needs to increase taxes, cut deficit spending, etc is because for the last 20 years, UMC, upper class and the wealthy have been able to shortchange the IRS on their taxes, avoid audits and tie down any attempts to claim unpaid taxes, interest and penalities by engaging tax lawyers who could keep the shrinking IRS audit department diverted.  The IRS has only been successful in auditing and claiming refunds and past due payments, interest and penalties from the lower income folks who could be garnished or foreclosed on if they didn't pay.  We have billions of dollars in back taxes that people have walked away from because they could tie the IRS up with lawyers.

The restaffing will allow the IRS to actually bring staff numbers back up to a functioning level and resume full audits and reclamation of unpaid and back taxes and penalties and interest.  Plus it will allow the IRS to actually research and hunt for fraud.  They will be able to get money owed to the federal government that will be legally owed and will be able to fund a lot of what the federal government needs without increasing taxes.  [/quote]

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