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".
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.