The biggest fear that a Republican politician in the United States has is apparently the fear
that the IRS is actually going to have enough of a budget to be able to function and do their job.
And the Democrats inflation reduction act actually does give the IRS $80 billion to do their jobs.
And more than half of that money, so more than 40 billion, is going to be used on enforcement.
Because as we all know, we've all seen the reports over the last couple years,
the IRS has reduced the number of audits that they do on the wealthy, right? The people actually
cheating on their taxes. And instead they're focusing more on auditing low income Americans,
people making under $30,000 a year. And the reason of course for that is because
if you wanna audit a rich person, right, if you wanted to audit Jeff Bezos, you're not talking
about one person in one room spending three hours looking over somebody's tax returns and moving on,
you're talking about an entire team. You're talking about lawyers spending weeks,
if not months, going through one person's taxes. That costs a lot of money. And Republicans know
that, which of course is why over the, the decades they've reduced the IRS's funding
so that they can't do these massive enforcement efforts. And instead have to focus on poor people
because you can wrap that up in about two hours. You can get through, you know, four or five a day
versus one, every five months. And the Democrats are trying to change that because they want
these, you know, people exploiting these tax loopholes, maybe not being completely honest,
they want them to pay their fair share so that we can of course use that money to fund the things
that we need in this legislation. Republicans are furious. And of course they're led by
multimillionaire, Rick Scott, who had this to say. They're just gonna go attack every small
business person. We know how the IRS treats people. You're guilty until proven innocent.
Guilty until proven innocent said the man who had to plead the fifth amendment 75 times so he
didn't end up, uh, implicating himself in potential criminal activity. Right, Rick?
Nobody wants to talk about that anymore though. Do they? Here's the thing.
This is not about small businesses and Rick Scott knows that. And I love how Republicans always try
to frame everything's like, oh, we're for small business. No, you're not. You lying sack of.
You are for major corporations because that's who's funding your campaigns.
You're for these super wealthy, because those are the people that give you donations.
And anyone who says otherwise is lying to you. Just like Rick Scott.
They don't want the wealthy to be taxed more because that's money that's obviously not gonna
be given to a Republican politician. The more money a wealthy person has, the more money a
corporation has, the more money they have to spread out among the politicians. And that is
what is so terrifying to these Republicans. They don't wanna see the Democrats succeed.
That also scares them. Anything that could make the country do better, is bad for
Republicans. But they're really off about, you know, the IRS maybe enforcing some tax codes
and it's not just by the way, because their donors are gonna have less money it's because they would
also probably end up having less money. As I mentioned, Rick Scott has hundreds of millions
of dollars. Hundreds of millions. Most members of Congress are also in fact millionaires. So
this new IRS enforcement would also apply to them. Maybe they're the ones who get audited,
which they should be. But it scares Republicans. They don't like the thought of anybody having to
pay an extra dime in taxes unless of course you make under, you know, $200,000 a year,
like Rick Scott's plan would've done. You're gonna pay a hell of a lot more.
But the wealthy, God no. No, no, no. They shouldn't ever have to pay anymore. And it's not
just because they're protecting the donors. It's because they're protecting themselves as well.