Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, another week has ticked by with no action from the House.

That’s what they were hired to do: blow it up.

Meanwhile, another week has ticked by with no action from the House.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

Amazing that this country put someone in charge of the House who publicly makes dumb statements as if he doesn't even know how Congress works - it's literally the job of the Congressional Budget Office to calculate an estimate of fiscal impact of legislation. They are experts at doing this, and they have already assessed the impact of cuts to the IRS - and yes, cutting their budget will increase the deficit, and the debt. They also scored the proposals to add staff to the IRS, and that analysis shows that the IRS would be more effective at reining in fraud, staffing up would not only pay for itself, it would pay for itself many times over and would reduce the deficit and the debt.

**This just in, the GOP does not want to rein in fraud or reduce the deficit and debt, I repeat the GOP does not want to rein in fraud or reduce the deficit and debt. More at ten.**

Good post, PP. It’s interesting that Republican voters can’t look at this even semi rationally. If it’s not keeping women down, “teh gayz” or immigration, their usual points of interest are the debt and the deficit. So here’s something that would help with that and… they’ve been told to hate it, so they hate it. End of thought process.

Personally I appreciate that the IRS is now targeting high wealth cheats instead of Jeff and Sara Workaday (and has started using AI to notice patterns that the human eye can’t detect as easily: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/irs-deploys-artificial-intelligence-to-target-rich-partnerships.html)

It’s just shocking to watch the GOP uck it all up. Again.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

Amazing that this country put someone in charge of the House who publicly makes dumb statements as if he doesn't even know how Congress works - it's literally the job of the Congressional Budget Office to calculate an estimate of fiscal impact of legislation. They are experts at doing this, and they have already assessed the impact of cuts to the IRS - and yes, cutting their budget will increase the deficit, and the debt. They also scored the proposals to add staff to the IRS, and that analysis shows that the IRS would be more effective at reining in fraud, staffing up would not only pay for itself, it would pay for itself many times over and would reduce the deficit and the debt.

He’s not stupid but he thinks GOP voters are stupid.

Amazing that Republicans are so gutless and unprincipled so as to let guys like Johnson openly and brazenly insult their intelligence with this crap. Either that or Republicans really are stupid.

Any Republicans want to prove me wrong?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

Amazing that this country put someone in charge of the House who publicly makes dumb statements as if he doesn't even know how Congress works - it's literally the job of the Congressional Budget Office to calculate an estimate of fiscal impact of legislation. They are experts at doing this, and they have already assessed the impact of cuts to the IRS - and yes, cutting their budget will increase the deficit, and the debt. They also scored the proposals to add staff to the IRS, and that analysis shows that the IRS would be more effective at reining in fraud, staffing up would not only pay for itself, it would pay for itself many times over and would reduce the deficit and the debt.

+1 This ROI is amazing.

The only reason not to separate aid out in bills is to hide pork.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

Wow. The lobbyists got to him pretty quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

Amazing that this country put someone in charge of the House who publicly makes dumb statements as if he doesn't even know how Congress works - it's literally the job of the Congressional Budget Office to calculate an estimate of fiscal impact of legislation. They are experts at doing this, and they have already assessed the impact of cuts to the IRS - and yes, cutting their budget will increase the deficit, and the debt. They also scored the proposals to add staff to the IRS, and that analysis shows that the IRS would be more effective at reining in fraud, staffing up would not only pay for itself, it would pay for itself many times over and would reduce the deficit and the debt.

He’s not stupid but he thinks GOP voters are stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

Amazing that this country put someone in charge of the House who publicly makes dumb statements as if he doesn't even know how Congress works - it's literally the job of the Congressional Budget Office to calculate an estimate of fiscal impact of legislation. They are experts at doing this, and they have already assessed the impact of cuts to the IRS - and yes, cutting their budget will increase the deficit, and the debt. They also scored the proposals to add staff to the IRS, and that analysis shows that the IRS would be more effective at reining in fraud, staffing up would not only pay for itself, it would pay for itself many times over and would reduce the deficit and the debt.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

Breaking: Speaker Mike Johnson also has no brain.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

The IRS is revenue positive. It brings in more money than it spends. This has nothing to do with lowering spending or debt. It's the GOP once again serving the interests of the wealthy before the interests of the country.

It's in everyone's interest for rich people to pay their taxes. The IRS helps make sure that happens (barely).

It’s not in the interest of the .1%. Which is exactly who bought and aid for the GQP.

Anonymous wrote:This is the “functioning House of Representatives”

This is what the House spent the day doing!?!

This is the “functioning House of Representatives”

Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

It seems like you have no brain to me. Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/irs-rescission-would-worsen-deficits

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the amount budgeted for hiring additional personnel for the IRS is $80 billion.

Since we are extremely in debt (over $33 trillion), I think it is good for our lawmakers look for places to cut in order to fund more important priorities.
This seems like a no brainer to me.

+1
I'm always amazed at the hysterics Democrats engage in - for no reason.

Lol nobody is hysterical. Stop calling people hysterical just because they have different policy positions that’s you, it makes you look silly and uninformed.

Oh, ok. Then you stop calling people "silly and uninformed" just because they have different policy positions than you. It makes you look like a complete hypocrite, and also not very bright.

I wasn’t calling you silly and uninformed because you may or may not have a different policy position than me (I did not note my position on this issue). I was calling you silly and uninformed because you think that anyone expressing a different position is hysterical- that is silly because it isn’t true and uninformed because you don’t know the definition of hysterical (which none of the prior posters were)