You know those 87,000 new IRS agents? They're only going after the millionaires and billionaires.

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[–]peety 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

why does each millionaire/billionaire need over 150 agents?

oh, and let me know when Elvis get here

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is to pay for the American war machine, plain and simple. By this logic, Trump seems like a hippie compared to the Washington establishment.

[–]peety 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

maybe a few thousand of those agents can help with the pentagon audit. the pentagon has been having so much trouble losing money the past 5 years.

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They aren't going after the Nationals.

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I get it. Inflation is making things so expensive. So you figure the IRS does not need to know the totality of your income from gig jobs.

She does not "get it".

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In order to intimidate poor people into staying poor. They want to impose as many obstacles to upward mobility as they can while framing it as being for your own good.