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Re:House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, elimina... by esarbe on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:04AM (#34337924)
Please stop spreading such nonsense. They don't have "a habit of targeting the middle income" people because they are low hanging fruits. They currently target middle income people because the lack the funds to go after the affluent and the wealthy and the obscenely rich.

That's what the additional funds is trying to rectify.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-20/super-ric...

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Re:House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, elimina... by ashwagary on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @06:50PM (#34346842)
>They don't have "a habit of targeting the middle income" people because they are low hanging fruits.

>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?

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Re:House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, elimina... by esarbe on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:57AM (#34389402)
"low-hanging fruits" is implying that other fruits would be available for harvest - which they are not - the IRS lacks the funds to go after these other "fruits". So I'm not sure this metaphor is applicable.

> 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".

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