Specious logic. The IRS is imperfect in the best of times and has been suffering from a vindictive decline in funding over decades due to the Republican hatred of taxes.
Tax non-compliance accounts for estimated 15-18% of all revenue.
Can you point to the law or executive order ācreated under the Obama regimeā that changed the IRS?
During the last fifteen years, the budget for IRS enforcement has been substantially reduced (driven by Republicans in Congress) and the focus of IRS audits has shifted so that a higher percentage of audits target low income people.
Iām curious what actions your are pointing to.
Additionally when you point to criminals running the FBIā¦ every FBI Director in the history of the bureau has been a Republicanā¦ so where would you look to find someone who would be willing to prosecute Democrats?
Talking points are a poor substitute for facts.
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And now starts the wave of useless legislation that will never make its way out of the House. Itās 2010 all over again. lol
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Fascinating. Lol
The house ways and means committee, committee on finance and the joint committee on taxation all have the legal authority to look into ANYONEāS tax returns and have since 1924.
It will make its way out of the House. It likely will be obstructed by Mr. McConnell in the Senate though.
But the Democrats will lay down markers showing how they want to govern and work to help people. The GOP will block their efforts. And come 2020 the voters will be able to see the choice for themselves.
Will voters want to keep giving power to a party that does not want to legislate for the benefit of the average American? Or do they want power to change hands and get a party willing to legislate for the betterment of the people?
Yep, 2010 all over again. lol
Yep. Republicans proving they are incapable of governing. All over again.
Yep, just them. Rah-rah-rah! lol
I believe most of the legislation will make it out of the House. Where it will die is in the Senate. Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership know that.
The reason these bills are not useless is that they are a message to the American people about what sorts of policies would flow from Democratic leadership and what the Republicans are backing. #2 item on the Foxnews website this morning is the head of Citizens United defending their position, under the guise that the Democrats are attacking āfree speechāā¦ kind of funny because the āfreeā activity they are defending is campaign contributions costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Free speech is a forum like this, not something that is only available to those with enormous disposable income.
But the point is, very little legislation can be expected from a divided Congressā¦ but we had that in the last two years when the divisions among Republicans in the House basically blocked all legislation. Funny ā the one thing they passed ā the tax bill ā passed because those āfree speechā big campaign contributors demanded some return on their investment after Congress failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
It would be good to focus on the impact of bills that donāt pass now because if the Democrats gain the Senate in 2020 (a likely scenario) those bills we come right back to life.
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āThe reason these bills are not useless is that they are a message to the American people about what sorts of policies would flow from [OPPOSITION] leadershipā
Boring! That already happened from 2010 - 2016. More of the same.
Absolutely. They had two years of total government control. They couldnāt even fund the government three different times in one year. It is absolutely just them. Lol
Kinda like Republicans voting to repeal Oācare 63 times during the Obama administration and not once since.
THey never had ātotal controlā see āclotureā in the Senate Rules.
Nothing could come to the floor for a vote without 10 Democrats being willing to vote yeah on cloture.
Let them try while we all laugh.
Other than dozens of bills to repeal the ACA ā which ended with the public approval of ACA soaring because citizens do not want to lose benefits like coverage of pre-existing conditions or extended coverage of adult children) what legislation came out of the Boehner or Ryan led houses.
Look at HR 1 and tell us what provisions bore you. Do you find the effort to reinstate the Voting Rights Act boring, or perhaps that is something that you favor?
The point of a Presidential candidate isnāt to find fraud or tax evasion. Well, with most candidates, I think itās obvious at this point that President Trump has a lot of dirty little fingers in a lot of dirty little pies. The point is so that the public can determine how that candidates tax and legislative proposals would affect that candidate.
Read the Constitution. Our government is set up as a system of countervailing powers, not a system of āfull controlā. The framers were wise enough to prevent āfull control.ā I donāt see how any can claim that we should follow the Constitution but then eschew compromise.
Read a history of how the Constitution was created. It is all a series of compromises intended to gather the support of all the states.
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There is no ātryā and you will not hear about itā¦ They will be examined in closed session per the lawā¦
