[notch898a]

Didn't the legislature try to introduce a bill to prevent using the new agents/funding against lower earners, and it flopped? So it turns out all along no one actually wants to keep anyone accountable to such "promises."

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

  Statement of Purpose: To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80.000.000.000, infusion of new funds.

  Vote Result: Amendment Rejected

[JumpCrisscross]

> legislature try to introduce a bill to prevent using the new agents/funding against lower earners

Money is fungible. This was a messaging bill. If they were serious, they'd create an independently-funded agency within the IRS with the sole mandate of going after high earners.

[notch898a]

If the bill was a message, so was the response. "Fuck you, we'd rather not be hindered by such promises."

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RE: below [due to timeout]

>The original bill already passed.

  factcheck:  false.  Original bill passed almost 12 hours later on the same day[0] [1].  The (above) amendment was voted on in the early morning, with the unamended increase passing in the afternoon.

>Congress has more important things to do.

  factcheck:  false.  All 100 senators voted on the floor for a full vote on the amendment.  None found they had something more important to do that would cause them not to cast a vote.

>The executive has stated its position.

  factcheck: True.  Either congress ignored the position, or they followed the privately endorsed position rather than the publicly endorsed one.

  [0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm

  [1] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00296.htm

[JumpCrisscross]

> so was the response

Not really? The original bill already passed. The executive has stated its position. Congress has more important things to do.

[jksmith]

So less than 400k is designated as high net worth? 200k will be the new threshold at some point.

[ashwagary]

Inflation will ensure almost everyone is in a higher tax bracket and is auditable in 1-2 decades.

[jksmith]

Then more money will have to be printed. So we get a raise, but the raise still doesn't match the hurdle rate, while demand remains the same. That's some dystopian fucked up shit there.

[ortusdux]

I don't take the legislature's failure to pass a bill as a sign of anything other than their general incompetence.