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Dennis Donovan

(22,005 posts) Sat Sep 7, 2024, 12:14 PM Sep 7

Robert Reich: Remember this as the GOP tries to strip the IRS of funding (IRS recovers $1.3B in unpaid taxes from rich)

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Robert Reich
This is why we should fund the IRS.

It's also why Republicans don't want to.

Remember this as the GOP tries again and again to strip the IRS of its funding.

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Robert Reich: Remember this as the GOP tries to strip the IRS of funding (IRS recovers $1.3B in unpaid taxes from rich) (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Sep 7 OP

Gonna have to do better than that. In scheme of things, that's about half of one day's interest payment on National Debt Silent Type Sep 7 #1

No kidding. I'm not even sure it's a half day of interest anymore. jimfields33 Sep 7 #2

It is a start and well past time to do - thanks to Repubs there has not been enough support Stargazer99 Sep 7 #3

Silent Type

(5,490 posts)

1. Gonna have to do better than that. In scheme of things, that's about half of one day's interest payment on National Debt

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2024, 12:17 PM

Sep 7

jimfields33

(17,956 posts)

2. No kidding. I'm not even sure it's a half day of interest anymore.

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 7, 2024, 12:19 PM

Sep 7

They definitely need to recover twenty times that in 2025.

Stargazer99

(2,727 posts)

3. It is a start and well past time to do - thanks to Repubs there has not been enough support

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2024, 12:45 PM

Sep 7

for the IRS to catch these bastards-this country allows the rich to become rich and they damn well OWE this country-sheesh talk about welfare queens-the rich take taxpayer monies also and lots of it, I would say the rich are the biggest welfare queens in the system

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