Edit: When they controlled all three during the beginning of the previous President's time in office. Still waiting for infrastructure [week] to end and I'm still waiting to see what the Republicans ACA replacement will be... SMH
People are getting savaged by inflation while the Democrats want the IRS to hire more agents that have a habit of targeting the middle income and poor because they are low hanging fruit.
That's what the additional funds is trying to rectify.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-20/super-ric...
>They currently target middle income people because the lack the funds to go after the affluent and the wealthy and the obscenely rich.
Low-hanging fruit: The obvious or easy things that can be most readily done or dealt with in achieving success or making progress toward an objective.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-hanging%20fru...
It's not nonsense, it's the reality.
Additionally, do you really believe US corruption is minor enough that politicians will target the major donor class for tax violations en mass?
> do you really believe US corruption is minor enough that politicians will target the major donor class for tax violations en mass?
Not giving the enforcement agencies the means to do the enforcement is not going to help either. If you are worried about corruption in the US, support efforts that get money out of politics, reversing Citizens United, etc. Not by virtually absolving rich people from paying taxes "because they already bought the politicians".
This.
This was the problem with Democrats for a long time. They weren't for anything, they were just against Republicans. Republicans in government used to be well-educated and their main ideological thrust was based on a set of principles of limited government, free-market capitalism, and maximum agency of the governed. They fell short of this ideal, but the ideal was there.
Not any more. They're doing stupid symbolic things like this resolution to "get them Democrats" not to actually fix anything, and not as a matter of principle. Part of the problem is any conservative leaning person of any intelligence or reasonable level of education doesn't go into government, they go into business. We end up stuck with bozos like we have now.
This move to abolish the IRS is as much theater as the move to "abolish" daylight savings time in the U.S. which never goes beyond submission of a bill.
If they'd backed this with something like a flat tax, that would have been a bold move, even semi-realistic. But this is circus fare.