The Republicans' second-biggest lie
The biggest lie of the midterm election, embraced by almost 300 Republican candidates, is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.
The runner-up is the lie, running on countless television commercials and campaign charges, that Democrats plan to send 87,000 armed IRS agents to harass middle-class Americans and mom and pop small businesses.
That’s 180 degrees wrong. As part of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, $80 billion was authorized for the IRS over ten years. This is a resource-starved agency: there are 20 percent fewer personnel at the IRS than a decade ago, a sharp cutback in the ability to answer taxpayer questions, a general counsel’s office that’s smaller than any time in the last quarter century. At the same time there are 15 million more tax returns.
There may be something like 87,000 new employees. Some will replace retiring or departing employees; others will be in human resources or on the legal team or IT specialists to modernize antiquated technology. Yes, there will be more audits — predominately of wealthy individuals and corporations — because audits have been scaled back.
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