[philiphodgen]

Two questions to ask yourself:

1. Why am I hearing this?

2. Why am I hearing this NOW?

Try to drop your pre-existing beliefs about the topic for a moment (rich people bad, FedBots evil, etc) and ask why this attempt at persuasion has been brought to your attention.

Who benefits from the agitation that occur in your mind when you read this?

[defrost]

Beacuse the US IRS has been underfunded to a greater and greater degree over the past decades and only recently has seen the benefit of increased funding allowing the resources to investigate and pursue the tax dodgers that have always been there.

You're hearing current reporting on the current results of recent funding increases.

You didn't hear this a year, two years, or five years ago .. because it hadn't happened yet.

It's not that deep a mystery.

[iwontberude]

No we need some conspiratorial grifters to explain it to us in a way that will motivate the purchase of NFTs.

[toomuchtodo]

I’m satisfied very wealthy people who owed taxes paid them. I pay all my taxes, I expect the same from the other top 40% of Americans who have a federal income tax liability. Why would I not be happy to hear this news? This is what I voted for. “Promises made, promises kept.”

[h_tbob]

Why, out of curiosity, do you care if others pay tax?

[toomuchtodo]

For the biblically inclined like yourself, start at Romans 13:6-7, Matthew 17:24-27, and Matthew 22:15-22. Matthew was a tax collector before being called to become one of Jesus' disciples.

My own secular belief system is in shared contribution to the cost and support of civilization. If I alone pay, that is insufficient. We must all pay what is due for the system to effectively function.

[ianbicking]

This is a very QAnon way of responding to news. Just add in "who's pulling the strings?" and you are pretty much there. You make no assertions, don't engage with the news itself at all, but just "ask questions".

[iwontberude]

Ahh yes, internet-connected mass schizophrenia thanks to abusive leaders, anonymous/artificial internet commenters breaking humans. They team up on bad ideas trying to get their justice. Buckle up for more of this.

[ZeroGravitas]

You missed the initial step where they engaged with the news enough to process it and realise that rich people paying taxes they owed was in some way bad for their political team and needed to be undermined.

[hindsightbias]

You should your own research.