The IRS said it stopped sending letters to people who didn’t file their tax returns, when the agency was strapped for funds. Now it’s going after the money.

About 125,000 notices will be sent to high-income earners, including 25,000 people with income more than $1 million, the tax agency said

This is who the Republican party’s complaints about the IRS are intended to protect.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    101·
    9 months ago

    The Democrats very much less so; a big chunk of their coalition is the labor unions who are outside that demographic.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        10·
        9 months ago

        The Democrats are a coalition, and not every coalition member is on board with downward redistribution, but a big chunk are, and it has a history of showing in the policies they implement.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          9 months ago

          and it has a history of showing in the policies they implement.

          Well, in the policies they would totally implement if just enough of them didn’t block them.

          • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
            3·
            9 months ago

            This one is a great example:

            • Democrats: lets fund the IRS to go after the richest people
            • Republicans: OMG armed IRS agents are going to break down your door and tyrannize your pet ferret
            • Democrats: IRS sends out letters asking people who make more than a million per year who haven’t paid their taxes
            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              9 months ago

              IRS sends out letters asking people who make more than a million per year

              Asking. They don’t ask regular people.

              • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
                61·
                9 months ago

                Sending a letter is the first thing they do when you haven’t filed. No matter who.

          • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
            8·
            9 months ago

            That’s just silly. We’ve got one fascist party and one moderate party (with some actual leftists as part of their coalition)

            There’s a world of difference between how the two would govern

              • Djtecha@lemm.ee
                5·
                9 months ago

                Then don’t even try bro. Don’t vote, don’t work on campaigns. Hey don’t even go on forums to talk about how fucked the system is. Because it’s all fucked. Just don’t. That’s your motto here.

              • UmeU@lemmy.world
                2·
                9 months ago

                It’s kind of ironic how you give an example of black and white, with no grey area, and then immediately demonstrate black and white thinking,

                Are there some politicians who solely work as a paid agents of billionaire lobbyist groups? Sure.

                Do all politicians work together harmoniously with the sole purpose of capitulating to some unnamed ‘they’? Unlikely.

                Are both sides the same? Demonstrably not.

                The truth is that the world is complex and there are a lot of moving parts. There is no unified force ‘behind the curtain’. Any conspiracy as large as you suggest requires too many people to be ‘in on it’ and working together.