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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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I think it's bolstering the desire of some deranged MAGAhounds, but for the rest of the GOP voters I think they would be less motivated now that Immortan Joe is guaranteed to kick Donald out.
That is not the way to motivate Republican turnout for vulnerable Senate seats.
I mainly wondered if they'd have tried to keep him from going into rants that'd hurt them, however feebly it might be.
At the end of the day, Trump was on his own side, and only sided with the GOP because their policy of letting rich morons run free fit him, but now that he has his days numbered, he can't use them as his cult, and they got tired of him, so he is even turning against the right.
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If this is his way of getting back on friendly terms with the Dems, I don't think it will work. Maybe he'll have to create a new Party for him and his loyalists!
Edited by clemont107 on Dec 5th 2020 at 9:05:17 AM
"Wow, no Mega Togekiss in Legends Z-A. Or any non-Froslass new Sinnoh Mega Evolutions. Round of applause, everybody." - DawnVirginia actually allows nominating conventions (rather than a primary). The GOP used it multiple times this year, once to oust Rep. Denver Riggleman, and another time to get Nick Freitas.
Virginia GOP was between a rock and a hard place, because Chase winning the nomination basically means that she'll lose to whoever is the Dem nominee. BUT Chase not winning the nomination increases the chances she'll run as an Independent, splitting the vote and losing anyway. She's a fringe nutter.
Hopefully this will give Democrats some breathing room to choose the best candidate and not weigh things like electability too much. There are like 6 people who've already declared they're going to run.
ProPublica: IRS: Sorry, but It's Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
Last month, Rettig replied with a report, but it said the IRS has no plan and won't have one until Congress agrees to restore the funding it slashed from the agency over the past nine years - something lawmakers have shown little inclination to do.
On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits - of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted - are done by mail and don't take too much staff time, either. They are "the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources," Rettig's report says.
On the other hand, auditing the rich is hard. It takes senior auditors hours upon hours to complete an exam. What's more, the letter says, "the rate of attrition is significantly higher among these more experienced examiners." As a result, the budget cuts have hit this part of the IRS particularly hard.
For now, the IRS says, while it agrees auditing more wealthy taxpayers would be a good idea, without adequate funding there's nothing it can do. "Congress must fund and the IRS must hire and train appropriate numbers of [auditors] to have appropriately balanced coverage across all income levels," the report said.
The IRS is correct: its funding has been hit hard this decade, largely because Republicans don't like it when the IRS audits rich people. Go figure.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Absolutely. Auditing poor people doesn't return much money.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"But then you get to send more poor people to prison, which is an absolute bonus.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!""Hey everyone how about we raise taxes so that we can give the IRS more money?...where are you all going?"
This is the same reason it's been so damn hard to get infrastructure spending approved. Nobody wants to raise the taxes for it.
In retrospect, maybe the decades of media demonizing the IRS have had an impact.
Edited by M84 on Dec 6th 2020 at 9:03:35 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedMy point about 'when you actually do audit the big earners, the audits bring in more money than they cost even if the audits are fairly expensive', was you wouldn't have to raise taxes. The audits should pay for themselves and some.
Or at least that was my intention, and I admitted I didn't have a source for it.
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And unlike the IRS people actually LIKE roads... so if they react poorly to trying to raise the taxes to pay for things they like....
Thats correct, the IRS itself gets nothing from going after big earners, not unless congress gives them a higher budget to do so.... which they wont.
Edited by Imca on Dec 6th 2020 at 5:15:22 AM

Do they tell him that that kills the morale of what will soon stop being his side, or they just shrug his behavior off?
Wake me up at your own risk.