Re:The IRS Sets a Trap for Cryptocurrency Tax Cheats
by klyrs on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:57AM
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> That's a dumb conflict of forces.
That's deft political engineering. Congress is to blame. They tweak the budget to protect themselves and their true constituents (megadonors and lobbyists).
We're in a peculiar situation where democrats and republicans are both on the "right" in their fiscal policies. Any blush of "left" policy is shouted down by bipartisan echoes of McCarthyism. The politicians of both parties are, by and large, upper class, and they collectively pit the middle class against the lower class.
We don't need a new IRS, we need a new breed of politician. And enough funding for the IRS that it can audit those politicians and their donors fearlessly.
That's deft political engineering. Congress is to blame. They tweak the budget to protect themselves and their true constituents (megadonors and lobbyists).
We're in a peculiar situation where democrats and republicans are both on the "right" in their fiscal policies. Any blush of "left" policy is shouted down by bipartisan echoes of McCarthyism. The politicians of both parties are, by and large, upper class, and they collectively pit the middle class against the lower class.
We don't need a new IRS, we need a new breed of politician. And enough funding for the IRS that it can audit those politicians and their donors fearlessly.