This is about right:
GOP’s first week in majority under McCarthy:
-pass rules package with secret concessions to insurrectionists
-eliminate the House Ethics Committee
-create committee to attack investigations of Trump
-pass $168B bill to repeal IRS funding to investigate billionaire tax cheats
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 9, 2023
Why is defunding the IRS so high on their priority list? Because it's basically a tax cut for rich people, and it's the only one they have any chance of getting. It's the one thing you can absolutely, positively count on Republicans for.
GOP says: defund the police!
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Exactly.
I believe "Prime Directive" is the traditional nomenclature.
And why would the MAGARepubs get rid of the Ethics Committee?? Don't they understand that they can use it to persecute Democrats? And should they lose their majority in 2024, abolish Ethics in the Lame Duck?
I mean, how dumb is that? Or is there just something I'm not getting?
This is one that drives me nuts. The people supporting this will never be millionaires, much less zillionaires, yet they'll argue and fight you over it. Then 10 minutes later they'll complain that the roads aren't fixed or whatever.
Dumb is gonna dumb.
All those folks who's income is reported on W-2's and 1099's, and who make less than $450K, will be so relieved about the GOP stopping the IRS from getting into their pants. I am sure my new MAGA Nazi congressman will vote for it.
Who needs an ethics committee when they have George Santos as a poster boy for an ethics investigation. I guess that as long as he shows up to vote whenever McCarthy tells him to, doesn't speak publicly, and stays out of jail, he remains "Honorable" and valued member of the House.
CBO already calculated that defunding the IRS would result in a net increase of the deficit by $114 billion -- something else for which Republicans can be counted upon.
Republicans talk about doing a lot of things, but the only thing they actually work towards is "Tax cuts for the rich!"
The GQP has as much chance with this bill as with other tax cuts for the rich this year. As in zero chance. It will never pass the Senate and Biden has already indicated he'd veto it.
Yeah, now it is all performative jackassery for a while.
Wake me when we get to the crashing-the-world-economy game of chicken.
Odd to frame this solely as tax cuts for the rich.
That's part of it, I'm sure. But it seems strawman-ish -- and certainly not steelman-ish -- to entirely discount a separate and quite understandable more basic preference -- to really not like or want to be audited.
Some folks who hold that preference are tax cheats, sure. But I'd imagine a lot more are folks who just don't want to have to go through an auditing process - small business owners who don't want to have to account for expenses and find receipts from years ago (and be hit with penalties if they've thrown them out); divorcees who tapped into their retirement funds and engaged in lots of transactions to keep themselves afloat during their divorce who don't want to have to find their old records and revisit a painful period of their lives; heirs to modest pieces of land or real estate who don't want to have to dig through their parents old stuff to demonstrate they paid what they owed, etc.
Is it so hard to posit that lots of folks hate the idea of having to account for themselves like that -- to have that intrusion into their lives and drain on their time and emotional energy, in a process with no upside and a heavy downside of being raked over the coals and treated like a criminal/cheat because your record keeping is found wanting?
The issue might be you did not realize Etrade deletes all electronic records of transactions after 7 years (and you never printed hard copy records, because that's the whole dang point of using an electronic brokerage!).
As a result though, you don't have the account statements you need to show the amount you withdrew from your Roth IRA during your hard time (divorce, illness of kid, whatver) was less than the amount you'd deposited over the years. Now you have to pay heavy taxes on money you already paid taxes on before -- because you needed to withdraw money from your retirement account (already screwing yourself once) to get through that awful time in your life, which you're now being penalized again for.
I know it's easy to wail about tax cuts for the rich, but if we're going to understand why some folks vote for the other side/a party we find unpalatable, it's worth taking the appeal of its policies seriously and not dismissing them based on superficial and incomplete tag lines.
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