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.
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.
Fraud at the lower end of the scale is generally very easy to catch through automation. There were cases of under reporting of tips, which is now irrelevant. Trump made a big deal of it, but it was really giving up the sleeves out of his vest. The other areas where fraud is likely to occur are “off the books” payments common in the trade industries or illegal activities such as drug dealing. In the former case, it is very expensive to prove these and the costs may not justify the expense. In the latter case, we need stronger crime enforcement to flush these out. Tax evasion under an circumstances cannot be justified, but the benefits of chasing down the tax evasion at the top income levels is more than justified.
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.
I am more referring to Medicare and Social Services fraud. It’s rampant and easy.
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?
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.
Fraud at the lower end of the scale is generally very easy to catch through automation. There were cases of under reporting of tips, which is now irrelevant. Trump made a big deal of it, but it was really giving up the sleeves out of his vest. The other areas where fraud is likely to occur are “off the books” payments common in the trade industries or illegal activities such as drug dealing. In the former case, it is very expensive to prove these and the costs may not justify the expense. In the latter case, we need stronger crime enforcement to flush these out. Tax evasion under an circumstances cannot be justified, but the benefits of chasing down the tax evasion at the top income levels is more than justified.