Lois Let’s  be factual since this is the NYT and not Fox News.  The GOP wants to rescind $45.6 Billion for enforcement agents to be hired who will target anyone failing to report the receipt of a mere $600 of income, down from auditing 200 transactions totaling $20k or more.  That’s not going after the rich, it’s going after the poor who hustle by selling stuff on eBay.  It’s also disingenuous to say that’s defunding the IRS any more than cutting a police budget is defunding the police.  According to an 11/22/22 NYT article, the CHO budget estimated increasing I.R.S. funding would return enforcement to its 2010 levels. Doing so would result in about 1.2 million more audits; of those, 583,000 would target people making less than $75,000.  Those are the facts and they’re not pretty.

Lois Let’s  be factual since this is the NYT and not Fox News.  The GOP wants to rescind $45.6 Billion for enforcement agents to be hired who will target anyone failing to report the receipt of a mere $600 of income, down from auditing 200 transactions totaling $20k or more.  That’s not going after the rich, it’s going after the poor who hustle by selling stuff on eBay.  It’s also disingenuous to say that’s defunding the IRS any more than cutting a police budget is defunding the police.  According to an 11/22/22 NYT article, the CHO budget estimated increasing I.R.S. funding would return enforcement to its 2010 levels. Doing so would result in about 1.2 million more audits; of those, 583,000 would target people making less than $75,000.  Those are the facts and they’re not pretty.

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