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Makes you wonder how many people are quietly getting away with it now.

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51 points

Anyone who has a B in their net worth.

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What if my net worth is Broke?

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5 points

TIL

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Quite a lot. David Cay Johnston has a couple of good books on the subject:

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else

https://a.co/d/ezlWPM9

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

https://a.co/d/8M5E4Es

The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind

https://a.co/d/hKGxR9Q

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There’s a reason Republicans are hell bent on defending the IRS and the only other option isn’t putting up much of a fight…

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Democrats just increased funding for the IRS. So, yeah they are.

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Not going to look up the actual numbers, but…

Dems said we need X billions dollars to fund the IRS.

Dems asked for billions less, got even less passed. Then went back and took billions more from that after it was passed as a “show of good faith” in negations with Republicans. I’m pretty fucking sure that was to get a budget passed, which Surprise! Republicans still didn’t pass one.

That’s why I said “the only other option isn’t putting up much of a fight…”.

By Dems own admission we’re not giving them enough, even before it was reduced multiple times.

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