Highlights: House Republicans are proposing funding $14 billion in aid to Israel by cutting additional money for divisions of the IRS tasked with making sure wealthy people and tax cheats pay their fair share, according to a new bill filed Monday.
The bill would also eliminate a task force intended to design a free direct e-file tax return system that could wind up competing with TurboTax—a change that the company, and politicians, particularly Republicans, have fought. Advocates have said such a system could save taxpayers billions of dollars, and millions of hours of prep time, per year.
The GOP’s latest bill matches $14 billion Biden’s funding request for Israel in number—but not in its proposed approach.
The thought of—as my colleague David Corn put it in Mother Jones‘ internal Slack channel—”letting billionaires cheat to pay for bombs to drop on civilians” is jarring, particularly given the more than 3,500 children that Gaza health authorities say have been killed by the Israeli airstrikes; heartbreaking photos and videos have shown kids covered in blood and dust and collapsing while coping with living through the trauma of war and losing loved ones.
The only exceptions are things like abortion bans and laws restricting the rights of groups they don’t like. Then, suddenly, the GOP are big fans of a large government.
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What? No lol. I don’t think you understand how government regulation works. Stopping abortion bans was just a handful of Justice Department lawyers prosecuting lawsuits on Constitutional grounds. Enforcing abortion bans will require any number of absurd bureaucracies - auditors to review medical records, police to investigate reports of illegal behavior, prosecutors to litigate cases, some kind of agency to enforce any fines levied, more prisons.
Enforcing a ban requires massively more government intervention than filing a few lawsuits did.
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Lmfao that is not at all what Republicans mean by smaller government. They literally mean “no government regulations of any kind”
https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333
"Many believe that government is at best superfluous and at worst a drag on a free market. It has long been their aim to cut taxes to “starve the beast.”
Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”"
They want government taxation and regulation at ALL levels GONE (except when it’s convenient for their political agenda, we see)
What you’re talking about is their disingenuous pretending that they care about local government and “states’ rights” to hide their real agenda.
(Funny enough “states’ rights” was also used as an excuse to maintain and expand slavery before the Civil War. So never forget that bigots have always been liars because they know they’re wrong and evil.
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/#:~:text=A key issue was states,Another factor was territorial expansion.)
I don’t know where you got your information from, but they’re wrong. I lived through the 80s; I’ve been listening to Republicans talk about “small government” for 40 years. They only care about being able to handicap taxation and regulations that cost corporations money.