“massive shock” implies that we didn’t already know that would happen.
Who is shocked? This is their MO and has been for decades. Deficits are fine as long as they include Easter eggs for the rich. These IRS cuts won’t do a thing for us W2 chumps, but it will be great for rich non-W2 tax cheats.
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since this is such a massive surprise to them, and now they know, what are they going to do about it? – cut more taxes for the rich?
> In a Shyamalanian twist no one – by which I mean everyone – could have predicted, the CBO estimated Wednesday that House Republicans taking an ax to the IRS would both add to the deficit and decrease revenue.
The title of the article is sarcasm at it’s finest.
Yeah. Intentionally reducing your income is a time-honored way to pay necessary bills, right?
I hope that “shock” in the title is sarcasm, because any thinking person already knew that.
Massive shock that’s exactly what their intending on doing. They don’t care about the budget. They don’t want a functioning government.
>In a Shyamalanian twist no one – by which I mean everyone – could have predicted, the CBO estimated Wednesday that House Republicans taking an ax to the IRS would both add to the deficit and decrease revenue.
>House Republicans’ Israeli aid bill, which includes what some credulous reporters faithfully parroted as “offsets” to the spending in the form of the IRS cuts, would cause the government to lose out on $26.8 billion in revenue and add $12.5 billion to the deficit over the next decade.
Who would’ve thought that not collecting taxes would reduce revenue and increase deficit? Such complex issues.
When will people learn that Republican policies are bad for the economy? This isn’t opinion, it’s verifiable fact.
I mean, if you’re trying to destroy our government this is part of the way to go about it.
The GOP House has had the same play for 20+ years – Slash taxes and promise that growth from the slashed taxes will make up for lost revenue.
It never happens – the debt and deficit explode under the GOP – but they pitch it every single year and every year the GOP line up behind it.
It’s great for little Maga Mike. He doesn’t have a bank account or mortgage or any financial records…… When your life is underwritten by the devil 👿why do you need to be concerned with paying taxes?
Same old GOP bullshit. Rack up the deficit, help wealthy tax cheats and blame Democrats. They have been doing this for a long, long time.
Evidence once again the Republicans “care”about the deficit and debt for political reasons only. It’s a talking point.
Here’s a reminder that the Republicans introduced a bill in January to abolish the IRS completely.
In massive shock to no-one…
…so republicans are not really concerned about a balanced budget.
Who’s shocked that the gop can’t do their jobs and just want to help the 1%? Cause if you are then I got a bridge to sell you
At least they’ve finally come up with a new way to cut taxes for rich people: see, we’re not cutting taxes, we’re just making it way easier to cheat.
They don’t care about the deficit. They never did. They pretend to score points on TV.
Old Republican pasttime: slashing taxes, which results in huge deficits, let Dems try to dig out of the hole, and then blame it all on them.
A report just came out that the IRS successfully clawed back something like $216 MILLION from only 100 millionaires that were cheating on their taxes.
Republicans make it worse. More news at 11.
Every fucking day.
I’ll take “posts that will never make it to r/republican” for $100, Bob
Only shocking if you’ve paid absolutely no attention to this issue and Republicans for the last couple of decades.
why can’t this be data driven? add x number of irs employees/auditors/investigators and tax revenues increase y%
Can’t wait for dems to regain the house to go about fixing this crappola. People need to pay their fare share, especially the wealthy and uber- wealthy
Thanks GOP for continuing to fuck the country. I hate these motherfuckers.
Listen, everyone. Over a billion dollars in aid is pricey so we have to tack on resolutions that ensure we also lose money to pay for it. That’s right, do exactly as Iran and Russia wants us to do. They only want what’s best for the world.
It’s almost like thinking and planning are involved in government.
Republicans want to grow the deficit so they can always complain about the deficit.
You need to look at the big picture. Sure the country as a whole suffers but the rich will benefit, alongside the republican politicians they bribe.
Ah yes. I too like to fund major purchases by reducing my income
What’s dumb (looking at you, republican base) is that additional funds for IRS agents isn’t even increasing taxes. It’s LAWFULLY collecting taxes from cheaters.
Why would anyone be against that?
Republicans are terrible at making financial decisions, even their austerity methods LOSE MONEY
Where the FUK do they think revenue, INCLUDING THEIR SALARY, comes from?!….although the REAL money comes from other sources
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“massive shock” implies that we didn’t already know that would happen.
Who is shocked? This is their MO and has been for decades. Deficits are fine as long as they include Easter eggs for the rich. These IRS cuts won’t do a thing for us W2 chumps, but it will be great for rich non-W2 tax cheats.
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since this is such a massive surprise to them, and now they know, what are they going to do about it? – cut more taxes for the rich?
> In a Shyamalanian twist no one – by which I mean everyone – could have predicted, the CBO estimated Wednesday that House Republicans taking an ax to the IRS would both add to the deficit and decrease revenue.
The title of the article is sarcasm at it’s finest.
Yeah. Intentionally reducing your income is a time-honored way to pay necessary bills, right?
I hope that “shock” in the title is sarcasm, because any thinking person already knew that.
Massive shock that’s exactly what their intending on doing. They don’t care about the budget. They don’t want a functioning government.
>In a Shyamalanian twist no one – by which I mean everyone – could have predicted, the CBO estimated Wednesday that House Republicans taking an ax to the IRS would both add to the deficit and decrease revenue.
>House Republicans’ Israeli aid bill, which includes what some credulous reporters faithfully parroted as “offsets” to the spending in the form of the IRS cuts, would cause the government to lose out on $26.8 billion in revenue and add $12.5 billion to the deficit over the next decade.
Who would’ve thought that not collecting taxes would reduce revenue and increase deficit? Such complex issues.
When will people learn that Republican policies are bad for the economy? This isn’t opinion, it’s verifiable fact.
I mean, if you’re trying to destroy our government this is part of the way to go about it.
The GOP House has had the same play for 20+ years – Slash taxes and promise that growth from the slashed taxes will make up for lost revenue.
It never happens – the debt and deficit explode under the GOP – but they pitch it every single year and every year the GOP line up behind it.
It’s great for little Maga Mike. He doesn’t have a bank account or mortgage or any financial records…… When your life is underwritten by the devil 👿why do you need to be concerned with paying taxes?
Same old GOP bullshit. Rack up the deficit, help wealthy tax cheats and blame Democrats. They have been doing this for a long, long time.
Evidence once again the Republicans “care”about the deficit and debt for political reasons only. It’s a talking point.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/23/politics/irs-fair-tax-republicans-abolish/index.html
Here’s a reminder that the Republicans introduced a bill in January to abolish the IRS completely.
In massive shock to no-one…
…so republicans are not really concerned about a balanced budget.
Who’s shocked that the gop can’t do their jobs and just want to help the 1%? Cause if you are then I got a bridge to sell you
At least they’ve finally come up with a new way to cut taxes for rich people: see, we’re not cutting taxes, we’re just making it way easier to cheat.
They don’t care about the deficit. They never did. They pretend to score points on TV.
Old Republican pasttime: slashing taxes, which results in huge deficits, let Dems try to dig out of the hole, and then blame it all on them.
A report just came out that the IRS successfully clawed back something like $216 MILLION from only 100 millionaires that were cheating on their taxes.
Republicans make it worse. More news at 11.
Every fucking day.
I’ll take “posts that will never make it to r/republican” for $100, Bob
Only shocking if you’ve paid absolutely no attention to this issue and Republicans for the last couple of decades.
why can’t this be data driven? add x number of irs employees/auditors/investigators and tax revenues increase y%
Can’t wait for dems to regain the house to go about fixing this crappola. People need to pay their fare share, especially the wealthy and uber- wealthy
Thanks GOP for continuing to fuck the country. I hate these motherfuckers.
Listen, everyone. Over a billion dollars in aid is pricey so we have to tack on resolutions that ensure we also lose money to pay for it. That’s right, do exactly as Iran and Russia wants us to do. They only want what’s best for the world.
It’s almost like thinking and planning are involved in government.
Republicans want to grow the deficit so they can always complain about the deficit.
You need to look at the big picture. Sure the country as a whole suffers but the rich will benefit, alongside the republican politicians they bribe.
Ah yes. I too like to fund major purchases by reducing my income
What’s dumb (looking at you, republican base) is that additional funds for IRS agents isn’t even increasing taxes. It’s LAWFULLY collecting taxes from cheaters.
Why would anyone be against that?
Republicans are terrible at making financial decisions, even their austerity methods LOSE MONEY
Where the FUK do they think revenue, INCLUDING THEIR SALARY, comes from?!….although the REAL money comes from other sources