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Double-A's avatar

What the GOP did to IRS funding is truly a travesty. The return on investment was HUUUGE. A true conservative would want everyone to obey the law (yes, including tax law) and for the government to enforce the law and prosecute law-breakers. What the GOP did with the IRS funding last year smacks of legislative arson rather than any kind of constitutional conservatism.

George's avatar

What you say here may be true. What costs the taxpayers more though? This, or fraud and waste at the bottom of the income scale?

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There’s no “may be true” about this!!! It’s fact and verifiable and verified truth as determined by objective experts.

And the two things are not mutually exclusive… we should go after actual tax evasion just as hard as we should go after waste, fraud, and abuse to the extent that it exists anywhere in the government’s spending. We don’t have to choose the one over the other.